Johnnie Romon Blunt, PhD
Information Literacy and Liaison Librarian
Assistant Professor of Instruction of Library Services
LIB 380
Office Hours:
- Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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Johnnie Romon Blunt, PhD
Information Literacy and Liaison Librarian
Assistant Professor of Instruction of Library Services
Liaison Areas: College of Education
- Elementary & Middle Level Education
- Educational Foundations & Professional Experiences
- Learning, Leadership & Community
- Literacy, Early Childhood & Special Education
Liaison Areas: Wilson College of Business
- Accounting
- Economics
- Finance
- Management
- Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Biography
An academic librarian with 18 years of experience, I believe (to paraphrase nineteenth-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass) that literacy and literacy education are the paths from slavery to freedom. Freedom from unquestioned and coercive sociopolitical ideologies. Freedom from complacency. Within this context, libraries are sites of literacy and liberation. Librarians are freedom fighters.
BA, English Literature, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
MA , English Literature, Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)
MLIS, Academic Librarianship, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)
PhD, Literacy, Culture, and Language, Oakland University (Rochester, MI)
Dissertation Title: Literacy and Liberation: A Context Analysis of Four Antebellum Slave Narratives as Sites of Critical Literacy
Critical Information Literacy
African American Literature
Scholarly Research and Writing
History of African American Literacy and Literacy Education
Critical Literacy
Critical Information Literacy