Kim Savelson

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Biography

Kim Savelson holds a Ph.D. in English, and an M.A. in English and Women's Studies. Her recently published book is titled "Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in 20th Century American Literature and Thought" (Ohio State University Press, 2009). "Where the World is Not" is a study at the cross-roads of literary criticism, philosophy, cultural politics and intellectual history.

Dr. Savelson is a full time member of the faculty in the Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric. She is currently teaching "Design Thinking" for the 2012-13 academic year, as well as a related seminar in "Children's Culture," which draws upon principles of storytelling, play, empathy and ethics in a curriculum that examines all kinds of material, including visual culture and product design. Other courses she has taught at Stanford recently are "Happiness Studies," "Imagining Others: 21st Century Cosmopolitanism," and "Rhetoric of Moral Reasoning." She has also taught at Harvard University, Brandeis University and UCLA.

Savelson is now at work on a new interdisciplinary project, which investigates design thinking as a 21st Century literacy from the perspective of rhetorical and humanities research. This project will ask about the inherently rhetorical dimensions in all design thinking, and explore the ways in which knowledge is produced in today's world in a process that relies on design solutions.

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