Inviting "Millennials" to be Voices for Social Justice in Their Creative Writings

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  • Christyne Berzsenyi Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre

Abstract

The historical transition from the 20th Century to the 21st has sparked a boom in identifying names and classifying characteristics of the young American adults and teens coming of age at that time. Though there is much discrepancy about the starting birth year and the life span parameters of "Generation Y", generalizing descriptions abound in an effort to capture their influential "historical location context, opportunities, and experiences" that members of this group share, particularly in their formative years. Defining qualities that are largely agreed upon among researchers include an inclination for "digital media, their confidence and optimism, and their orientation towards collaboration" (Donnison).

Author Biography

Christyne Berzsenyi, Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre

Christyne A. Berzsenyi, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre campus. Her primary areas of scholarship are in rhetoric and written communications in mass media upon which interlocutor identities and relationships are constructed, defined, and sustained through discursive actions and texts. She teaches courses with computer-assisted, hybrid, and web instructional delivery in composition, professional and creative writing, web writing, science fiction and detective literature, and women in the arts and humanities.

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Vol. 40 No. 2 (2011): Summer/Fall 2011

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