Sharieka Botex

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. 

Some of her scholarly interests include:

• 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