Dr. Earl Holmes Brooks

Assistant Professor · Tenure-Track

Department of English

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

About

Earl Brooks is a musician and scholar with expertise in African American expressive culture and rhetorical studies. His forthcoming book, Resonance of Resistance, explores the rhetoric of black music, including ragtime, jazz, gospel, and the blues.

Research interests

rhetoric, composition, sound studies

Teaching interests

rhetoric, composition, sound studies

Education

  • Ph D, EnglishPennsylvania State University (2017)
    On Rhetoric and Black Music
  • MS, EnglishUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2012)
    Mother Africa: A Rhetorical Analysis of Various Topoi of Africa in Jazz and Literature
  • BA, American StudiesUniversity of Kansas (2010)
  • BA, MusicUniversity of Kansas (2010)