Eli Goldblatt is a professor of English at Temple University. After earning his B.A. at Cornell University, he attended a year of medical school, traveled in Mexico and Central America, and taught high school for 6 years in Philadelphia. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. Since moving to Temple from Villanova University in 1996, he served as University Writing Director, co-director of the Writing Center, and Director of First Year Writing until leaving administrative work in 2012. He is the director of New City Writing, an institute focused on community literacy in North Philadelphia. Through New City Writing, Temple students and faculty have participated in many projects since 1997 in the Latino and African American communities near the university. His most active current involvement is with Tree House Books, an after school literacy program near the Temple campus, and Philadelphia Public School Notebook, an investigative publication dedicated to education in the city. He was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the national Conference on Community Writing in 2015.
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