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.
Biography
Areas of Expertise
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."
Articles
Challenging How English Is Done: Engaging the Ethical and the Human in a Community Literacies Seminar
Community Literacy Journal2016
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.
Susan Weinstein [PDF] from researchgate.net Who's the Teacher: What Tony Danza Taught Us About English Education
English Education2014
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.
Event Appearances
Amplifying ELA with Humanities Amped
2020 | National Council of Teachers of English Online
Why Can't We Be Friends? Alliances Between Academic and Community Programs
2019 | Associated Writing Programs Annual Meeting Portland, OR
Research Grants
Research Initiative Grant
ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators)
2019
Manship Summer Research Fellowship
LSU College of Arts and Sciences
2018
Media
