
Adam Banks
Professor of Education
Graduate School of Education
Bio
Committed teacher. Midnight Believer. A Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Cerebral and silly, outgoing and a homebody. Vernacular and grounded but academic and idealistic too. Convinced that Donny Hathaway is the most compelling artist of the entire soul and funk era, and that we still don't give Patrice Rushen enough love. I'm a crate digger, and DJ with words and ideas, and I believe that the people, voices and communities we bring with us to Stanford are every bit as important as those with which we engage here at Stanford.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I come to Stanford from the University of Kentucky, where I served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies and prior to that, from Syracuse University, as a member of the faculty of the Writing Program. In addition to these appointments I served as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kansas and, jointly with Andrea Lunsford, as the Rocky Gooch Visiting Professor for the Bread Loaf School of English.
My scholarship lies at the intersections of writing, rhetoric and technology issues; my specialized interests include African American rhetoric, community literacy, digital rhetorics and digital humanities. My most recent book is titled Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, and my current digital/book project is titled Technologizing Funk/Funkin Technology: Critical Digital Literacies and the Trope of the Talking Book.
Administrative Appointments
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Faculty Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric (2015 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Rhetorician of the Year, Young Rhetoricians Conference (2014)
Program Affiliations
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Science, Technology and Society
Research Interests
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Diversity and Identity
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Literacy and Language
2022-23 Courses
- Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures
AFRICAAM 200N, EDUC 314, STS 200N (Spr) - Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Pedagogical Possibilities
AFRICAAM 389C, CSRE 385, EDUC 389C (Win) - Remix | Reading and Writing DJ Culture
EDUC 15SC (Sum) - Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Introduction to Cultural Rhetorics
PWR 194NCR (Win) -
Independent Studies (6)
- Advanced Individual Work
STS 299 (Win, Spr) - Directed Reading
EDUC 480 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Reading in Education
EDUC 180 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Research
EDUC 490 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Research in Education
EDUC 190 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Writing
PWR 5 (Spr)
- Advanced Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Fly Folk in the Buttermilk: A Black Music and Culture Writing Workshop
AFRICAAM 163 (Spr) - Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures
AFRICAAM 200N, EDUC 314, STS 200N (Win) - Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Pedagogical Possibilities
AFRICAAM 389C, CSRE 385, EDUC 389C (Win) - Remix | Reading and Writing DJ Culture
EDUC 15SC (Sum) - Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Introduction to Cultural Rhetorics
PWR 194NCR (Win)
2020-21 Courses
- Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures
AFRICAAM 200N, EDUC 314, STS 200N (Spr) - Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Pedagogical Possibilities
AFRICAAM 389C, CSRE 385, EDUC 389C (Win) - Remix | Reading and Writing DJ Culture
EDUC 15SC (Sum)
2019-20 Courses
- Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures
AFRICAAM 200N, EDUC 314, STS 200N (Spr) - Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Pedagogical Possibilities
CSRE 385, EDUC 389C (Win) - The Black Music 1980s: Turntables, Beat Machines and DJ Scholarship
AFRICAAM 180S, CSRE 180S (Win)
- Fly Folk in the Buttermilk: A Black Music and Culture Writing Workshop
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Raquel Coelho, T. Jones -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Danielle Greene -
Doctoral (Program)
Danielle Greene