“The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters” is a partnership of the University of Georgia and Texas Christian University celebrating the poet and her legacies informed by a participatory vision of the humanities and the arts.
Click here for more about the project and its co-directors.
Click here for more about the project and its co-directors.
In DFW Writes Phillis Wheatley Peters (#DFWwritesPWP), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Endia Lindo, and Carmen Kynard connect professional development opportunities for teachers with a student writing contest in honor of Phillis Wheatley as one of the multiple community events in the national Wheatley Peters Project. Captured in West Africa in 1761, Phillis Wheatley Peters arrived in Boston as a slave. Twelve years later, she published the first book of poetry by an African American. We examine the ways she continues to inspire audiences today in grades 3-12 in this 250-year anniversary of her 1773 publication.
Watch below to see all winners Grades 3-12!
Click slides below to see our High Winner: Sophia Ordaz!
Phillis Wheatley by Sophia Ordaz
Many Thanks to Our Contest Judges
for Grades 3-8!
for Grades 3-8!
Thank you, TCU undergraduates-- Precious Afolabi, Skyler Cloyd, Olivia Corpina, Breton Estes, Vera Farah, Favor Igwilo, Katelyn Thompson, and Chandler Tran
Many Thanks to TCU Graduate Students who Helped Coordinate the High School Contest!
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Lea Lester is a Ph.D. student in the Curriculum Studies program at Texas Christian University. Her research interests revolve around mental health; specifically, the mental health of Black girls and women, as well as mental health in schools. Lea has served in public education as a middle school science teacher and a high school counselor. She is currently a licensed therapist in private practice seeking to improve awareness, accessibility, and outcomes for Black people.ple.
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Ashlee Pilcher is a PhD student at Texas Christian University in the Rhetoric and Composition program. Her research interests focus on multimodal and digital composing and rhetorics, activism and protest, and feminist and antiracist pedagogy. Words like educator, creator, or activist resonant more deeply with her identity than words like scholar or academic. Her work is aimed at the disruption of heteronormative, oppressive notions of what meaning making and academic work should be that values and embraces lived experience, “nontraditional” modes of knowledge and communication, and creative exploration. Outside of the academy, she spends time exploring and recharging in nature; doting on her nieces and nephew; painting, baking, or other (any and all) modes of crafting and creation; or curled up on the couch with her partner and dogs.
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Kelcia Righton is from the Caribbean island, the Commonwealth of Dominica. Righton is currently a Ph.D. student at Texas Christian University in Curriculum Studies. Righton is an alumna of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX, where she earned a B.A. in Business Management, and Texas Christian University, where she obtained her M.A in Educational Leadership in Higher Education. Her research interests include a sense of belonging among students and faculty of color, black feminisms, and black feminist thought and mentorship structures for students of color. Righton currently serves as the Assistant Director in the Office of Student Identity and Engagement and the Community Scholars Program at Texas Christian University.
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Click the pages below to see how DFW teachers describe the legacy of Phillis Wheatley Peters. These slides also offer examples of multimedia approaches to learning about Wheatley Peters.
