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Willink

Kate Willink

Background:

BA, Cornell University
MA, University of New Mexico
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests:

Prior to coming to DU Dr. Willink was a faculty member for two years at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research explores how social, historical, economic, and political dimensions of cultural communication are rearticulated, subverted, or transformed by performances of cultural memory.  Through conversations with community members who lived through various education policy attempts to redress social inequality, her work shows that contemporary communities continue to be fissured by the persistent power of memory and educational policy hamstrung by divergent cultural interpretations. Her publications include recent and upcoming articles in Text and Performance Studies, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.