Brenna Swift
Position title: Assistant Director of Writing Fellows
Email: blswift@wisc.edu
- Interests
- Disability justice, critical pedagogy, antiracism, community engagement, writing center studies, literacy studies, trauma-informed practices, and education for social justice
Degrees
- BA, Colorado College
- MS, Northwestern University
Other
Assistant Director, Writing Fellows Program
Member, English Department Diversity and Inclusion Student Committee
Publications
Review of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, ed. Alice Wong. Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, Winter 2021.
“A Trauma-Informed Mentorship Model for Early Career Academics and Graduate Students Experiencing Mental Illness.” With Neil Simpkins. Spark: The Online Magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity. September 23, 2020.
“Literacy is a Socio-Historic Phenomenon with the Potential to Liberate and Oppress.” With Kate Vieira, Lauren Heap, Sandra Descourtis, Jonathan Isaac, Samitha Senanayake, Maggie Black, Chris Castillo and Ann Meejung Kim, Kassia Krzus Shaw, Ola Oladipo, Xiaopei Yang, Patricia Ratanapraphart, Nikhil Tiwari, Lisa Velarde, and Gordon Blaine Wes. (re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. December 2019.
“Undergraduate Research as Transformation: Writing Fellows Build and Share Knowledge.” Another Word: A Blog from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2020.
“A New Collaboration: Welcoming a High School Writing Center to UW-Madison,” with Mike Haen, Another Word: A Blog from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 2018.
“Fire and the Impermanence of Landscape,” Edge Effects: A Digital Magazine from the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment, October 2018.
“Challenging Ableism and Institutional Barriers Through Writing Center Work,” Another Word: A Blog from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2018.
“The Hayman Fire and the Impermanence of Landscape” on Edge Effects: https://test.edgeeffects.net/hayman-fire/