Custodian of The Stories
Ben McCorkle is an Associate Professor of English at OSU Marion and teaches a variety of classes in subjects ranging from academic writing to digital media to literary publishing. He is also the Co-Director of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), an online collection of personal accounts of people learning to read and write. Essentially, he is part of a group that is currently curating an ongoing collection that serves as a living history of literacy. It’s an archive that contains many voices, different points of view, and a variety of ways into our reading of others’ personal past.