Eric House

Bio

Eric House is an Associate Professor in the English Department at New Mexico State University where he teaches courses that focus on literacy, writing, and rhetoric as means to map out and understand cultural production and processes of identification. His scholarship examines how Black literacies remix perceptions of writing and intervenes in politics of representation. Eric’s previous work focused on the composing practices of Black rhetorical figures such as the hip-hop DJ in order to argue that such Black rhetorical figures might transform composition theory and pedagogy. His current project looks at Black community building in the American Southwest in order to investigate the reflexive properties of Black literacy practice. His work is necessarily interdisciplinary as he places Black literacies in conversation with scholarship in rhetoric and writing, Black Feminisms, linguistics, and cultural studies.