Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2017 "In the School, Not of the School": Co-Performing Critical Literacies with English Amped Anna Catherine West Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. “IN THE SCHOOL, NOT OF THE SCHOOL”: CO-PERFORMING CRITICAL LITERACIES WITH ENGLISH AMPED A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Anna Catherine West B.A., Columbia College Chicago, 2000 M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2011 August 2017 To the students and teachers of English Amped, and to students and teachers everywhere who dare to reimagine education together. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation belongs to a wide community of people who have from the start shaped its life, and my own life with it. Through each phase of this project, I have depended on collaborators who stood alongside me as partners, advisors, and dear friends.