Ira Shor serves on the English faculty at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and is Professor in the City University of New York’s Graduate School, where he started up the doctorate in composition/ rhetoric in 1993. His nine books include a recent three-volume set in honor of the late Paulo Freire which includes Critical Literacy in Action. Shor’s close work with Freire began in the early 1980s with Shor’s Critical Teaching and Everyday Life (1980) the first book-length treatment of Freire’s methods in their North American context, and lasted until Freire’s passing in 1997, the same year that they co-authored A Pedagogy for Liberation. Shor also authored the widely used Empowering Education (1992) and When Students Have Power (1996). Ira Shor came to CUNY during the height of the Open Admissions battles in 1971. Experimenting with critical teaching and literacy, he taught Basic Writing for 15 years and continues to teach first-year composition and other writing courses in addition to seminars in the pedagogy and rhetoric of critical whiteness, postcolonialism, autobiography, and composition studies.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric