deborah mutnick

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Research Interests: Rhetoric and Composition, Literacy, Basic Writing, Oral History, Ethnography, and Nonfiction Writing.

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Deborah Mutnick is Professor of English, former Director of Writing at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University, and current Co-Director of LIU Brooklyn Learning Communities (LIUBLC). She is the author of Writing in an Alien World: Basic Writing and the Struggle for Equality in Higher Education (1996), recipient of the W. Ross Winterowd Award. She has published refereed articles and book chapters on basic writing, narrative, autobiography, critical pedagogy, oral history, and the intersection between geography and composition studies. In 2012, she received an NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant for The Pathways to Freedom Digital Narrative Project, which maps oral histories of Brooklyn civil rights activists in time and space using GIS, crowdsourcing, and other digital technologies.

She serves on the editorial boards of Science & Society and the Journal of Basic Writing and has been a member of the Executive Board of the Conference on Basic Writing since 2008. She has served as well as an external reviewer of programs at Lehman College, New York City Technical College, Hunter College, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association.

Chief among her current interests are the digital humanities, oral history, ethnography, public writing, and university-community partnerships that bring the resources of universities to communities and vice versa, enabling students and faculty to engage in research, writing, and creative projects in a wide range of social contexts. Related to this work, she is researching and writing about the relevance to 21st century America of the Federal Writers’ Project created in the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration.

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