Reading Everyday Life: A Rhetoric and Composition Scholar’s Reflections on Experiencing Art that Commemorates Black Life and Legacies

Dr. Sharieka Shontae Botex is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing Studies in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Sharieka is a scholar, writer, poet, and educator. She is a moderator of dialogue and creator of content, scholarship, experiences, and events that uplift and affirm people and their work. She works to connect people to resources and opportunities that they can use to help them shape their lives, communities, institutions, and society. Sharieka is dedicated to inspiring people to be confident writers, who use their literacy practices to progress and prosper in their personal, professional, academic, and communal endeavors. 

Some of her scholarly interests include:

• African American Rhetoric and Composition
• Black and Black queer literacy practices
• Black legacies, histories, and experiences
• Community-engaged work
• Feedback approaches
• First-Year Writing
• Hip Hop
• Leadership
• Literacy
• Writing Centers