Areas of Interest

1. • Adolescent/Youth Literacy Practices
   

2. • Arts and Media as Critical Literacy Practices among Youth
   

3. • Literary Criticism and English Teaching
   

4. • Adolescent and Children's Literature
   

5. • Teacher Preparation in Literacy
   

Profile

Education:

B.A.    English and Comparative Literature, William Smith College

Ed.M   Literacy Education, Harvard University

Ph.D   Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign       

Recent Awards

2010 UBC Killam Teaching Award

2007  CSSE/Canadian Graduate Students of Education Mentorship Award

http://www.csse.ca/Awards/Awards.shtm

http://www.csse.ca/Awards/CCSEmentor.shtm

Current Research Project

SSHRC funded YouthCLAIM* project

*(Critical Literacies and Arts-Integrated Media)

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