Dr. Brittany S. Hull is an interdisciplinary scholar from Chester, Pennsylvania. Her work centers Black women’s language and Black girl literacy. Her ongoing research project examines the scholarly identity development of Black women teachers of English as they enter and navigate academia, specifically, the field of Composition & Rhetoric as Black Language speakers. Prior to joining the University Writing Program, she was a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) at Stanford University where she received the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award.
Dr. Hull earned her PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a 2017 CCCC Chair’s Memorial Scholar, and a recipient of the 2018 CCCC Scholars for the Dream award. She is the co-author of "Dressed But Not Tryin' to Impress: Black Women Deconstructing Professional Dress" published in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and "I needed them": A Reflection on African American Language, Black Women, and Teaching Writing" published by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
With a teaching commitment to honoring Black Language and helping students bring more of their whole selves to their writing, Dr. Hull encourages students to critically examine sociopolitical standards via their writing and research. In a world that is constantly evolving, Dr. Hull challenges students to reflect on how they can positively contribute to its evolution.
- Reintroduction to Writing: Interrogating the Rhetoric of Belonging