PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“Teaching to Refuse & Reclaim: A letter of gratitude to bell hooks.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, Special Issue Honoring the Legacy of bell hooks. (2022)
Using Media to Know Better, Teach Better. PBS Learning Media, Teachers Lounge. (2019)
Deceptive campaigning, “anti-whiteness,” and hopes for a new Texas. The Daily Texan. (2018)
Two Poems: The Reach of Justice & Rubin Stacy from Teaching Terror. EcoTheo Review. (2017)
A Dialogue with the Curriculum of Our Nation: Remembering Philando Castille. Rethinking Schools. (2016)
academic
Unremarkable Violence and the Politics of Relation: Education and the whiteness of institutional response discourse. Dissertation, 2021.
“On and beyond traumatic fallout: Unsettling political ecology in practice and scholarship.” Journal of Political Ecology, 28. 677-695. Moulton, A.; Velednitsky, S.; Harris, D.; Cook, C.; Wheeler, B. (November 2021)
“Active words in dangerous times: Beyond liberal models of dialogue in politics and pedagogy.” Curriculum Inquiry. De Lissovoy, N. & Cook, C. (March 2020).
“Collective turning and modern day persons unknown: An ideological critique of white supremacy in public.” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 34(4). (September 2019).
“Staying with the trouble:” grapplings with the more-than-human in a qualitative inquiry course.” Qualitative Inquiry. Special Issue: What Do Pedagogies Produce? Thinking/Teaching Qualitative Inquiry. Nxumalo, F.; Cook, C.; Cedillo, C.; Rubin, J.; Hendrix, A.; Scott, M. (August 2019).
Scripted Fantasies and Innovative Orientalisms: Media, Youth, and Ideology in the Age of the “War on Terror.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 1(15), 1-14. De Lissovoy, N., Ramaprasad, V., Cedillo, S, & Cook, C. (2016).
Cultivating Communities of Care: Story Circles as Social Justice Practice. In S. Pennell, A. Boyd, H. Parkhouse, & A. LaGarry (Eds.), Possibilities in Practice: Social Justice Teaching in the Disciplines. NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Cook, C. & Martinez-Nichols, C. (2017).
related professional experience
Spring 2023
SXSW Mentor: Courtney B. Cook
Winter 2023
Panelist | Big Sky Film Festival, Doc Shop: “Building Trust: Documentary Film & Media Literacy”
Spring 2022
Advisory Board Member | MediaMKRS, a Reel Works Initiative (ongoing)
Winter 2021
Producer, Director, & Curator | POV Watch Club on PBS Learning Media an ongoing anti-racist Virtual Professional Learning Series in collaboration with PBS Education for educators interested in liberatory education & critical media literacy
Summer 2021
Content Advisor | Muhammad Ali, PBS Learning Media |Supported a cohort of educators developing curricula in relation to Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon’s Muhammad Ali
Curriculum Consultant, PBS Learning Media | Developed “Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching Library” for PBS Learning Media’s Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching, Season 2. PBS Children’s Media & Education, p. 21-29.
Summer 2020
Speaker, PBS Learning Media’s “Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching: Using Media to Know Better, Teach Better” (Highlight Reel)
Fall 2019
Lead Research & Development Consultant | The Center for Racial Equity and Inclusion, Chattanooga, TN
Spring 2018
Interactive Installation & Sound Artist, HIVE Art Collective, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
2016-2019
Poet-in-Transience, Typewriter Rodeo, Austin, TX
Spring 2016
Curriculum Developer & Facilitator | Austin Bat Cave, The Phoenix House, Austin, TX
Summer 2015
Teaching Artist, Writing Facilitator | Truth Be Told, Hilltop Prison Unit, Gatesville, TX