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Anything We Say is Culturally Shaped: An Interview with Shirley Wilson Logan  \nNabila Hijazi  \nAbstract: In this interview, Shirley Wilson Logan reflects on her major roles as a scholar, teacher, and an administrator. She describes her journey as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, only one of a few black women to do so. Logan is also credited with launching the study of African American women’s rhetoric as a field, writing one of the early books on African American women rhetors. Logan discusses her motivations for writing this book, With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African American Women , and makes connections between her scholarly focus and her work as both a teacher and an administrator.  \nProfessor Logan’s Bio:  \nShirley Wilson Logan is a recently retired Professor Emerita of English. She specializes in nineteenth-century African American rhetoric, with an emphasis on women’s oral and written performances. She helped launch African American women’s rhetoric as a field by publishing two books on this topic, With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African American Women (1995), and “We are Coming”: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women (1999) . Logan’s interest in rhetorical education culminated in her third book, Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America (2008) . She has published several individual essays on women from this period, including Ida Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Victoria Matthews, and Frances Harper, as well as critical examinations of the rhetorical activities of black men and women across the nineteenth-century.  \nLogan has also published a number of essays on approaches to teaching writing in twentieth-and twenty-first century multilingual classrooms, including studies of the impact of rapidly evolving technologies. She is also the coeditor, with founding editor Cheryl Glenn, of the Southern Illinois University Press Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms. The series has published twenty-four titles, over the past fourteen years, of both traditional and cuttingedge scholarly works exploring relationships between rhetoric and feminism within various genres, cultural contexts, historical periods, methodologies, theoretical positions, and methods of delivery.  \nLogan is also working on a rhetorical biography of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) that traces critical connections between her role as a social activist, her literary productions and rhetorical performances and her life experiences, starting with her early years in Baltimore, Maryland.  \nNabila Hijazi (NH): Please explain your educational background. What specifically attracted you to the field of English, composition and rhetoric in particular?  \nShirley Wilson Logan (SWL): I attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the intention of majoring in math, but after a semester in an advanced Algebra course, I realized that I was not going to be a good candidate for a degree in this field. My appreciation for the power of language led me into English. I was also especially fond of a professor who introduced me to the works of James Baldwin and Richard Wright and inspired me to become an English major. At the time English studies meant literature because there were no degrees in rhetoric and composition. I finished with a degree in English, summa cum laude, and began taking graduate courses in the summer at the University of North Carolina towards a master’s in English. I studied a collection of short stories, Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children. During those early years, I taught in various public schools in Charlotte and  \nin Prince George’s County Maryland, and at Howard","cbCaioKPGWUR2tq6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioKPGWUR2tq6","pdf",104939,"English","# We Cannot Teach Composition in Isolation; Anything We Say is Culturally Shaped: An Interview with Shirley Wilson Logan\n## Interview Questions and Educational Background\n## Teaching Career and Program Development","[{\"question\":\"Who is Shirley Wilson Logan in this interview?\",\"answer\":\"Shirley Wilson Logan is portrayed as a recently retired Professor Emerita of English specializing in nineteenth-century African American rhetoric, especially women’s oral and written performances.\"},{\"question\":\"What field did Logan help launch, according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"The document states that she helped launch African American women’s rhetoric as a field through multiple published books and related work.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the ongoing project Logan mentions near the end of the excerpt?\",\"answer\":\"She is working on a rhetorical biography of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), tracing links between Harper’s activism, literary productions, rhetorical performances, and life experiences.\"}]","Composition Forum 38 - Spring 2018 - Interview: Shirley Wilson Logan | PDF",1792087989,12]