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Stacey Waite
Associate Professor and Director of Composition
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Education/Degree:
1 English English English English (University of Pittsburgh)
About
Stacey Waite is a poet, activist, educator, and scholar who conducts research in the field of composition and the teaching of writing as well. Originally, from Long Island, New York, Stacey received a Master of Fine Arts in writing in 2002 and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. Waite is now Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Waite has published four collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize in Poetry), Love Poem to Androgyny (winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition), the lake has no saint (winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize in Poetry) and Butch Geography (Tupelo Press, 2013). Waite’s most recent scholarly book, Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing, was published with the University of Pittsburgh Press in May of 2017.
Current Work
My research focuses primarily on pedagogy and community engagement scholarship. I explore and develop queer methodologies for the teaching of writing. My book Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Teaching and Writing argues for ways of teaching that value resistance, fluidity, identity, and queerness. My newest project, entitled the World as We Wish it Were, explores the radical potential of community writing contexts by studying youth who have engaged with a local non-profit in slam poetry. I am particularly focused on queer voices and voices of color in the context of Nebraska youth.
Research Area Keyword(s)
queer, pedagogy, community, writing, Composition