Office Hours
Courses Taught
Areas of Interest
Publications
Professional Associations
Principal Activist Work

Office Hours:

By Appointment

Courses Taught:

EDST 506A: Introduction to Qualitative Methods
EDST 565B: Cultural Studies Praxis
CCFI 601C: Cultural Studies and Comparative Multiculturalism/Anti-racism education

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Areas of Interest:

Cultural Studies of Education
Cultural Studies as Praxis
Continental and Diasporic African Cultural Studies
Critical Multiculturalism, Anti-racism, Transnationalism
Post-Reconceptualization Curriculum Theorizing
Social Difference and Identity Politics
Qualitative and Ethnographic Research
Critical Theory & Critical Pedagogy

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Recent Publications:

Book

Wright, H.K. (2004). A Prescience of African Cultural Studies: The future of literature studies in Africa is not what it was. Peter Lang Publishing.

Edited Journal Issues

Wright, H.K. & Lather, P. (Eds.). (2006). Paradigm Proliferation in Educational Research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19 (1).

Wright, H.K. & Maton, K. (Eds.). (2004). The glocal presence of cultural studies in education. The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 26 (1, 2)

Wright, H.K. (Ed.). (2003). Diasporic Africans and the Question of Identity. Critical Arts, 17 (1, 2).

Wright, H.K. (Ed.). (2003). Qualitative Research in Education.
Tennessee Education, 32 (2).

Wright, H.K. (Ed.). (2002). Continental Africa(ns) and the Question of
Identity. Critical Arts, 16 (2).

Maton, K. & Wright, H.K. (Eds.) . (2002). Returning Cultural Studies
to Education. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 5 (4).

Journal Articles

Wright, H.K. (2006). Qualitative researchers on paradigm proliferation in educational research: A question-and-answer session as multi-voiced text. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19 (1), 77-95.

Wright, H.K. (2005). Does Hlebowitsh Improve on Curriculum History? Reading a Re-Reading for its Political Purpose and Implications. Curriculum Inquiry, 35 (1), 103-117

Ryba, T. & Wright, H.K. (2005). From Mental Game to Cultural Praxis: Implications of a Cultural Studies Model for Future Trajectories of Sport Psychology. QUEST: The Journal of the National Association for Physical Education in Higher Education, 57 (2), 192-212.

Wright, H.K. (2003). Cultural Studies as Praxis: (Making) An Autobiographical Case. Cultural Studies, 17 (6), 805-822.

Wright, H. K. (2003). An Endarkened Feminist Epistemology? Black Feminist Identity, Difference and the Politics of Educational Research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 16 (2), 197-214.

Wright, H.K. (2001). Birmingham Texts on a Cultural Studies Approach to Education: A "Review by Interview" With Michael Green. The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 23 (3), 223-246.

Book Chapters

Wright, H.K. (in press). From British-American to Transnational Cultural Studies: Appropriating Ngugi wa Thiong’o for the Journey. In Timothy Reiss (ed.) Ngugi in the Americas. Africa World Press.

Wright, H.K. & Ryba, T. (in press). Organized Youth Sport and Its Alternatives. In Shirley Steinberg et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Youth Cultures. Greenwood Press.

Tomaselli, K. & Wright, H.K. (2007). Representing African Cultural Studies & the Praxis of the African Renaissance. in Norman Denzin & Michael Giardina (eds). Contesting Empire/Globalizing Dissent: Cultural Studies after 9/11. Paradigm Publishers.

Wright, H.K. (2004). Cultural Studies in Education. In Daniel Weil and Joe Kincheloe (Eds.). Critical Thinking and Learning: An Encyclopedia for Parents and Teachers. Greenwood Press.

Wright, H.K. (2000). Why Write Back to the New Missionaries? Addressing the Exclusion of (Black) Others from Discourses of Empowerment. in George Dei and Agnes Calliste (eds). Power, Knowledge and Anti-Racism Education: A Critical Reader. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Wright, H.K. (2000). Not So Strange Bedfellows: Indigenous Knowledge, Literature Studies, African Development. in George Dei, Budd Hall, & Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg (eds.). Indigenous Knowledge in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World. University of Toronto Press.

Keynote Addresses

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (Vancouver), November 2006. Keynote Panel on (Re)EnVisioning Sport: Dialogues Across/Between Communities. Keynote Address: "'You'll Never Walk Alone:' Sport Studies, Cultural Studies and Community Making."

Iberian Association of Cultural Studies.  Ninth International Culture and Power Conference (Lisbon, Portugal), November 2003.  Keynote Address: “Black Ambivalent Elaboration and the End(s) of Critical Pedagogy”

Southeastern Association of Educational Studies Conference (Knoxville, Tennessee), March 2001. Keynote Address: “Towards Cultural Studies Praxis: Blending Cultural Studies and Service Learning for Social Justice”

Fourth Annual Conference of the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Guelph(Guelph, Canada) March, 1998. Keynote Address: “Out of Africa? The Politics of Origins in Cultural Studies.”

Second Cultural Studies Symposium, Brock University (Saint Catherines, Canada) March, 1998.  Keynote Address: “Dare we De-Centre Birmingham? Notes on (Re)Politicizing Cultural Studies.”

International Conference on Diasporic Futures, Global Times & Post-Coloniality (Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, Birmingham University, Birmingham, England) March, 1997. Keynote Address: “The (Im)Possibility of (Articulating) African Identity.”

Plenary PRESENTATIONS 

American Educational Research Association conference (San Francisco), April 2006. Division B: Curriculum Studies Invited Plenary Session: Projects of Influence, Architects of the Arena: The Status of Curriculum Studies.
Presentation: “Everything Old Ought To Be New Again: Post-Reconceptualization Curriculum As Presentist Praxis”

American Educational Research Association (San Francisco) April, 2006.
Paulo Freire Special Interest Group. Invited Panel: Does the Freirean Legacy Leave Racism Unchallenged? Presentation: “The Whiteness of Being Critical Pedagogy and the Absent Presence of Blackness”

Fifth Crossroads in Cultural Studies: An International Conference (Urbana), June 2004. Spotlight Session on Africa in a Global World. Presentation: “From British-American Hegemony to Transnational Cultural Studies: Appropriating Ngugi wa Thiong’o for the Journey”

Fourth Crossroads in Cultural Studies: An International Conference (Tampere, Finland) June/July 2002. Invited to present on plenary panel on Critical Literacies and Pedagogies. Plenary Paper: "The End(s) of Critical Pedagogy."

Third Crossroads in Cultural Studies: An International Conference (Birmingham, England), June 2000.  Invited to act as discussant for one of the plenary sessions of the conference. Discussed papers presented by Keyan Tomaselli and Saskia Sassen.

Crossroads in Cultural Studies: ­An International Conference (Tampere, Finland) July, 1996. Invited to present on Plenary Panel of the conference.
Paper: “Dare We De-Centre Birmingham? Authorized and Other Cultural Studies.”

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

University of Washington (Seattle), Center for Multicultural Education and the Canadian Studies Program, May 2006. Invited Presentation: “Ambivalence About the “M” Word: Multiculturalism in New Times
and Glocalized Circumstances.”

University of Alberta (Edmonton), October, 2005. H.M. Tory Chair in Cultural Studies Invited Lecture Presentation: “Cultural Studies as Praxis.”
http://www.ualberta.ca/~rshields/a/WrightHandelCulturalStudiesasPraxis&Q 2005_10_25.mp3

University of Alberta (Edmonton), October, 2005. Invited Presentation to Faculty of Education. Presentation: “Cultural Studies / Education: Dealing With That Damn Slash.”

University of Washington (Seattle), Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the African Studies Program, March 2005.
Invited Presentation in series Africa in the World: Rethinking Area Studies
Presentation: “Whose Diaspora is This Anyway? Continental Africans Trying onand Troubling the Diaspora.”

Loyola University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), February, 2001
Invited to give the sixth annual Invited Colloquium on Educational Issues presentation. Paper: “Social Difference and Cultural Studies in State-of-the-Art Curriculum Theorizing.”

Cardiff University, School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies (Cardiff, Wales) May, 1999. Invited Presentation.   Paper: “E-Mail in/and African Studies.”

Refereed Conference Presentations

Comparative and International Education Society (West). (Vancouver) September, 2005. Session: Western Discourses and African Praxis: Appropriation, Ambivalence and Alternatives. Paper: Notes Toward African Cultural Studies of Education.

American Educational Research Association conference (Montreal) April, 2005. Session: Cultural Studies of Education: Historical Trajectories, Future Lines of Flight. Paper: From Birmingham Flirtation to Post-Reconceptualization Commingling: The Evolution of Cultural Studies on/in Education.

Research on Women and Education (Knoxville) October, 2003 Session on The Everyday World of Female Athletes as Pedagogical Problematic: An Institutional Ethnography of a Women’s Athletics Department. Paper: “Research in Process: Report on A Pilot Study and the Theoretical/Methodological Framework for an Institutional Ethnography of a University’s Women’s Athletics Department.”

Sociology for Changing the World: Political Activist Ethnography (Sudbury, Canada), November, 2002. Session on Political Activism, Pedagogy, and the Classroom Paper: "Facilitating Graduate Student Activism and Research: The (Potential) Contribution of Institutional Ethnography."

Fourth Crossroads in Cultural Studies: An International Conference (Tampere, Finland) June/July 2002. Session on Intellectual Practices in Culture and Power: Transnational Dialogues (2/2). Paper: "Biting the Hand That (Force-)Feeds You: Resisting Theoreticism in Promoting Cultural Studies as Praxis."

American Educational Research Association Conference (New Orleans) April 2002 Session on Reading Across Differences: Troubling Positionality, Methodology, and Epistemology. Paper: "Homies Don't Play Posties, Homies Don't Play Neos: Black Critical Ambivalence and the End(s) of Critical Pedagogy."

Journal Editorship and Editorial Board Memberships

• International Education 2005 – present. Co-editor.
• Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education 2005 – present. Member of editorial board.
• Canadian Journal of Education 2006 – present. Consulting Editor
• Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 2005- present. Member of editorial board.
• Cultural Studies 2001- present. Member of international Editorial Board.
• European Journal of Cultural Studies 2000 –2005. Book reviews editor.
• European Journal of Cultural Studies 2005 - present. Member of international editorial board .
• International Journal of Cultural Studies 1997- present. Member of the international Editorial Board.
• Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural and Media Studies 2000-present. Member of international Board of Editorial Consultants.

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Professional Associations:

• Association for Cultural Studies (ACS- International). 2004- present. Member of International Board. 2000-2004 - Member of International Executive Advisory Committee & Founding Member.
• Canadian Association for Cultural Studies (CACS) 2005- present. Member.
• American Educational Research Association (AERA). 1993-present.
  Program Chair for Division B, Section 2 (Curriculum Theory) in 1999.
• Comparative and International Education Society (West) 2005- present.
  Member.
• International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. 2001-present.
  Founding Member. Member of Conference Advisory Board for 2006 World Curriculum
  Studies Conference.
• Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (“Bergamo”- United States). 1993- present. Member.
  

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Principal Activist Work:

• Highlander Research and Education Center. Member of Executive Committee of Board of Directors and Chair of Personnel Committee
• Vancouver Multicultural Society- Member
  

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