Kells, Michelle Hall

Michelle Hall Kells is Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing program at the University of New Mexico. She has ten years college teaching experience. Kells teaches courses in Rhetoric, Composition, Sociolinguistics. Her areas of specialization (civil rights rhetorics, sociolinguistics, and composition/literacy studies) coalesce around problems related to ethnolinguistic stratification and intercultural communication. Kells launched Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines (Heinemann-Boynton-Cook, 1999) with Valerie Balester.