Overview
Dr. Sharieka Shontae Botex is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing Studies in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Sharieka is a scholar, writer, poet, and educator. She is a moderator of dialogue and creator of content, scholarship, experiences, and events that uplift and affirm people and their work. She works to connect people to resources and opportunities that they can use to help them shape their lives, communities, institutions, and society. Sharieka is dedicated to inspiring people to be confident writers, who use their literacy practices to progress and prosper in their personal, professional, academic, and communal endeavors.
- African American Rhetoric and Composition
- African American people's literacy practices, histories, legacies and experiences related to literacy practices.
- Black LGTBQ Literacies and Black LGTBQ people's literacy practices, histories, legacies and experiences related to literacy practices.
- Progress & Prosperity
- Community-engaged work
- Feedback practices
- First-Year Writing
- Hip Hop
- Leadership
- Literacy
- Writing Centers
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program
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2023 - Present
Thompson Writing Program,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
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Recent Publications
Reading Everyday Life: A Rhetoric and Composition Scholar’s Reflections on Experiencing Art that Commemorates Black Life and Legacies
Journal Article · May 20, 2025 Open Access Link to item CiteI’m Here with You and I Hear You: Reflections on Engaging in the Work of Suppressing Histories That Have Oppressed Us
Journal Article College Composition and Communication · January 1, 2024 I aim to inspire people to suppress language and practices that oppress people. I engage with scholarship to advocate for learning from suppressed communities. I call for rhetoric and composition scholars to recognize how the existence and progress of oppr ... Full text Open Access CiteThe Progress and Prosperity Present in African American Rhetoric and Composition Scholarship
Thesis Dissertation · 2023 Link to item CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Michigan State University ·
2023
Ph.D.
East Carolina University ·
2019
M.A.