Gwendolyn D. Pough

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Gwendolyn D. Pough was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. She is currently an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Writing at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on black feminist theory and the public sphere with an emphasis on Black popular culture. She has written a book on women and hip-hop culture and is currently writing a book on the cultural and political impact of contemporary Black women's book clubs and reading groups. She has also been known to write a little fiction and poetry as well.

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CCR 760 Graduate Seminar, Black Feminist Theories
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(Last Class at Gwen's house)

Women, Rap and Hip-Hip Feminism Course, WSP 400.02
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Hip-Hop Fiction writer Black Artemis with Gwen and students

She has published in the following anthologies and journals:

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman, editors

Get It Together: Readings about African American Life , Akua Duku Anokye and Jacqueline Brice-Finch, editors

Rhetoric and Ethnicity, Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley, editors

Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century, Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier, editors

African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Elaine Richardson and Ronald Jackson, editors

That's the Joint: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader, Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, editors

College Composition and Communication

Doula: The Journal of Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture

Words Beats and Life Hip-Hop Journal

Art Speak: Feminist Art Dialogue

All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents