Chelsea J. Murdock is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Assistant Director at the Georgia Tech Communication Center. She earned her PhD at the University of Kansas with a focus in Composition and Rhetoric, lingering particularly on Indigenous and cultural rhetorics as well as participatory culture. Her work has appeared in Community Literacy Journal and will appear in College English. For more information about her work, visit chelseajmurdock.com.

BTS (방탄소년단) in an English Composition Course

As my students chatted, I situated the camera onto the computer screen. They seemed excited about the class activity: filming a reaction video and posting it to YouTube. Opposite the students, on the screen at the front of the classroom, a music video was paused at a blank white frame…. Continue reading