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Education
M.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, 2003
B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, 2000
Biography
Tamika L. Carey is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher specializing in cultural and feminist rhetoric practices, African-American rhetorical and literacy traditions, Black women’s writing and intellectual histories, and the memoir. She is committed to studying how writing, language, and assumptions about literacy promote and complicate the wellbeing of Black women and African-American communities at large.
Her articles appear in such journals as Rhetoric Review, Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, Signs: A Journal of Women in Society, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Her 2016 book Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood is a feminist critique of African-American self-help culture that unearths the messages about gender, learning and community obligation circulating within three of the most popular black women’s wellness campaigns of the last three decades. She is currently working on two research projects: a study of apologia and call-out culture centralizing women’s freedom of speech controversies and an exploration of writing and healing practices in the memoir.Publications
Courses
UVA Service
Pedagogy Committee, Writing and Rhetoric Program
Curriculum Committee, Writing and Rhetoric Program
Awards Committee, Writing and Rhetoric Program
Graduate Committee, Department of English
Steering Committee, Department of English
Undergraduate Advising
Search Committee (Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities)
Search Committee (Assistant Professor of English, General Faculty)
National Service
Rhetoric Society of America
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Conference on College Composition and Communication
AP Board
Rhetoric Society of America
Journal of the History of Rhetoric
Honors
2021 - Casteen and Donchian Faculty Fellow in Ethics, The Institute of Practical Ethics in Public Life. University of Virginia
2021 - Theresa J. Enos Anniversary Award for the Best Award ("Necessary Adjustments"). Rhetoric Review
2019 - Inaugural Book Series Scholar Award for Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood. DBLAC. 2019
2016 - Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Diversity Leave Grant. State University of New York
2015 - Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition New Work Showcase Participant
2009 - American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship