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H. Brooke Hessler is Carrithers Chair of Writing and Composition at Oklahoma City University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in civic-engaged writing and rhetoric. In 2002 she co-founded the Virtual Archives Partnership at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, an ongoing service-learning collaboration that has become a model for museum/school partnerships nationwide and centers on the use of oral history and museology to teach visual, verbal, and material rhetoric. She is a charter advisory board member of the Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives and a co-founder of the nonprofit corporation Write to Succeed. In 2007 Dr. Hessler was awarded a Priddy Fellowship and Campus Compact grants to develop an arts-integrated curriculum for students of campus- and community-based writing. Her scholarship on community-engaged writing and pedagogy includes articles and chapters in Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, Reflections, Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (eds., Linda Shamoon, et al), By Any Other Name: Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Academy (eds. Beverly J. Moss, et al), and Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition (ed, Locke Carter). With research partner Amy Rupiper Taggart, she served as guest co-editor of the Reflections double-issue on Revising the Community Writing and Rhetoric Course (Spring 2006). She is currently at work on a comparative study of material rhetoric and public memory in the U.S. and Singapore.
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