Department of English and Modern Languages

College of Arts and Sciences

Adrienne Blackwell-Starnes, Ph.D.

Director of Writing Programs, Associate Professor of English

Katt Starnes earned her doctorate in rhetoric from Texas Woman’s University in 2011, and she joined the faculty at LU in 2013. Her teaching expertise is in composition, rhetoric, and British literature. Her research interests are composition pedagogies and veteran studies. She has served as the department’s director of writing programs since 2017.

Contact

Office: Maes 03A
Phone: (409) 880-8589
ablackwellst@lamar.edu

Courses Taught

  • Basic Writing
  • Composition I
  • Composition II
  • Survey of British Literature
  • British Literature after 1800
  • Multimedia Writing
  • Visual Rhetoric
  • Advanced Expository Writing
  • Studies in Foucault
  • Ethics and Literature
  • Introduction to the Profession
  • Social Media as Political Propaganda
  • Studies in Critical Theory
  • Video Games as Texts
  • Academic Writing
  • The Rhetoric of Stuff
  • Feminist Critical Theory
  • Teaching of Writing

Publications

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt, and Allison Harmon. “2020 Veterans Studies Bibliography.” Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, Summer 2022.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “2019 Veterans Studies Bibliography.” Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter 2020.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “Risky Undercover Work: Hipolita Acosta and Human Trafficking.” Review of Texas Books, vol. 34, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2019.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “2018 Veteran Studies Bibliography.” Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2019.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “Faded No More. A Review of Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Military Sites, Then and Now.” Review of Texas Books, vol. 34, no. 2, Fall 2018.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “The Vietnam War at 50: Lessons and Legacy.” Review of Texas Books, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2018.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “2017 Veterans Studies Bibliography.” Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter 2018, 153-206.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “At Ease: Developing Veterans’ Sense of Belonging in the College Classroom.” Journal of Veterans Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter 2018, 18-36.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “‘Life Was Good. The Sun Hot.’: Septimus Smith, Sanity and Suicide.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, no. 91, Spring 2017, 32-33.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt, and Janice Walker. “Reports From The LILAC Project: Designing a Translocal Study.” In Points of Departure: Rethinking RAD Methods for the Study of Student Writing. Tricia Serviss and Sandra Jamieson, eds. Boulder, CO: Utah State UP, 2017, 63-82.

Blackwell-Starnes, Katt. “Preliminary Paths to Information Literacy: Introducing Research in Core Courses.” Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration Across Disciplines. Barbara D’Angelo, Sandra Jamieson, Barry Maid, and Janice Walker, eds. West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2016 (Print), and Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2016, (Digital), 139-161.