Suban Nur Cooley
She/Her
FacultyAfrican American and African Studies
Assistant Professor – Tenure System
Biography
Suban Nur Cooley, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies, is a storyteller and communications professional with more than a decade of experience. She brings this expertise to bear in the classroom to help students develop both practical and critical digital and cultural literacies. Working to empower and embolden the value and strength of Black diaspora knowledges and cultural practices through her writing, research, and teaching, she blends the rhetorics of identity and belonging, cultural and digital literacies, and Black feminist theory to help build understanding and broaden perspectives of how we define and value all forms of writing. As a community-minded scholar, she is also driven by equity, reciprocity, and a growth in empathy and understanding for one another and is consistently looking for opportunities to engage her research and classroom spaces with the world beyond it by focusing on issues pertaining to identity, culture, and current events.
Awards and Honors
James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award
Conference on College Composition and Communication
2021
The CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies, or adds to the field’s body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry.
Charles Kneupper Award
Rhetoric Society of America
2023
The Charles Kneupper Award, given annually, recognizes the article published in that year’s volume of Rhetoric Society Quarterly that the editorial board and the editor consider the most significant contribution to scholarship in rhetoric. The award is named to honor Charles Kneupper’s contributions to the scholarly mission of RSA.
Publications
On Being and Becoming Black in a Globally Dispersed Diaspora: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02773945.2022.2077626