Professor Eleanor D. Branch

Office: 210 Deeds

Email: branche@carolinau.edu

Phone: 336-541-6370

Dr. Eleanor Branch has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Arts (Radio, Television and Film) from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Her academic specialization is in American Literature with a subspecialty in African American Literature/Multiethnic American Literature.  She is a Toni Morrison scholar with a broadening research agenda that includes identity development and intersectionality. Her teaching interests include: African American, African, Caribbean, and American Literatures; Composition; Technical Writing; Creative Writing; Film; Journalism and Communications; Cultural Studies; Visual Rhetoric; and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.

During the course of her career, Branch also spent many years in writing center administration including work as a professional writing tutor as well at a variety of public and private institutions. She began her career as a journalist writing for small community newspapers in Chicago and Brooklyn, New York. She went on to write for the national publication, Black Enterprise Magazine, and in doing so won several awards from the University of Missouri at Lincoln as well as the National Association of Black Journalists. At the time, she specialized in business, educational, and technical writing.  From there, she went on to work for several years as an audiobook executive producer for Random House Publishing Company in New York City where her roster of authors included such notables as Danielle Steele, John Grisham, Nora Roberts, and Daniel Silva.

When not at work, Branch loves on her two dogs, a shih tzu and a terrier poo and has aspirations to write the great American romance/mystery novel.