Susan Weinstein

MacCurdy Distinguished Professor Louisiana State University

  • Baton Rouge LA

Dr. Weinstein’s research focuses on youth literacies and creative expression in marginalized communities.

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Areas of Expertise

New Literacy Studies
English Education
Poetry

Biography

Sue Weinstein is the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where she works in English Education and New Literacy Studies. Dr. Weinstein also serves as President of the Board of Directors for Humanities Amped, the critical pedagogy nonprofit in Baton Rouge. She has published 2 books with State University of New York (SUNY) Press. Her 2019 book is The Room Is on Fire: The History, Practice, and Pedagogy of Youth Spoken Word Poetry. Her 2009 book, Feel These Words: Writing in the Lives of Urban Youth, grew out of her work at a Chicago alternative high school. Before entering graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Sue was a high school English teacher in Chicago, IL and in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA.

Research Focus

Youth Literacies & Creative Expression

Dr. Weinstein’s research focuses on youth literacies and creative expression in marginalized communities, exploring how graffiti, hip-hop lyrics, and teen writing workshops cultivate agency and civic voice. She uses ethnographic fieldwork, discourse analysis, and community-engaged pedagogy to document underground literacies and design inclusive writing curricula that broaden access to literary culture.

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

Ph.D.

English (Language, Literacy, & Rhetoric)

2004

University of Illinois at Chicago

M.A.

English (Teaching of English)

1998

Pennsylvania State University

B.A.

English

1986

Accomplishments

Mid-Career Rainmaker Award, Louisiana State University

2019

Media Appearances

'AI is here': LSU bringing artificial intelligence — and its concerns — into the classroom in 2024

The Advocate  online

2023-10-16

"The main thing is that AI is here and this particular production of text that it can do now is here, so we don’t want to stick our heads in the sand and pretend that it’s not," said LSU department of English chair Susan Weinstein. "It presents a number of challenges, and it also perhaps presents some opportunities, and so we just want to be in the conversation."

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Articles

Challenging How English Is Done: Engaging the Ethical and the Human in a Community Literacies Seminar

Community Literacy Journal

2016

Eight English graduate students and a professor reflect on their semester-long exploration of community literacy studies. The students, some in a MFA Creative Writing program and some doing doctoral work in literature, rhetoric, or English Education, discuss how the community literacies lens unsettled their relationship to English Studies.

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Susan Weinstein [PDF] from researchgate.net Who's the Teacher: What Tony Danza Taught Us About English Education

English Education

2014

This study examines the reality TV series Teach: Tony Danza and argues for its value as a teaching tool in the secondary English methods class. Drawing on television studies, in particular, theories surrounding reality television, the authors suggest that their students’ knowledge of the conventions and practices of reality television shows opens up a space for them to focus on the “real, but not quite real” representations of Danza’s experiences teaching. His celebrity status creates a distance between him and our preservice teachers that allows them to feel comfortable analyzing and critiquing his often-problematic practices.

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Research Grants

Research Initiative Grant

ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators)

2019

Manship Summer Research Fellowship

LSU College of Arts and Sciences

2018

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