Engaging the Critical in English Education

Noah Asher Golden is Assistant Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach. Prior to becoming a researcher and teacher educator, Noah had a fifteen-year career as a literacy coach and high school English teacher. His research interests include critical literacies, equity-oriented pedagogies, and negotiated identity work.

Charles H. Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Austin Peay State University. He has worked with diverse populations of public school students, out-of-school youth, and adult learners and currently teaches literature, pedagogy, and education courses in the Department of Teaching and Learning. His research focuses on discovering ways to encourage and support pre-service (and in-service) teachers to be culturally relevant and on uncovering ways to develop new culturally sustaining pedagogies. He is a former co-chair of ELATE-SJ and has been a member of NCTE since 2008.

Heather Hurst, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Education at Frostburg State University. Her teaching has been in educational research methods, particularly qualitative research, English teaching methods, and social justice and diversity in education. Her current research is in social justice pedagogy in English education, problematic narratives of adolescent bullying, and conflict negotiation during classroom discussions. She has published in the English Journal and Methodological Innovations and has presented at the American Educational Research Association, the Literacy Research Association, the International Literacy Association, and NCTE and ELATE’s conferences.

Kahdeidra Monét Martin is a doctoral candidate in urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Kahdeidra is interested in culturally relevant and universally designed English teacher education, critical pedagogy, and multimodal approaches to cultivate racial literacy among teachers and students. Kahdeidra’s scholarship uses qualitative research methods to understand the heteroglossic languaging practices of youth and their significance to identity formation and belonging in various communities of practice.

Terri Rodriguez is Professor of Education at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University where she teaches undergraduate courses in literacy and English language arts teacher preparation. Her recent research focuses on education for diversity, equity, and social justice. She is co-author of Supporting Muslim Students: A Guide to Understanding the Diverse Issues of Today’s Classrooms (2017) published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Melissa Schieble is Associate Professor of English Education at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Melissa teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English education, literacy, and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on digitally-mediated interactions in English education, young adult literature, and critically oriented forms of discourse analysis.

Nicole Sieben is Assistant Professor of Secondary English Education at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury where she is also the coordinator for the graduate programs in English education. A former high school English teacher in New York, Sieben’s research focuses on building “writing hope” in secondary and postsecondary education, social justice practices, and professional development in K–12 schools.

Amy Vetter is Associate Professor in English Education in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she teaches undergraduate courses in teaching practices and curriculum of English and literacy in the content area, and graduate courses in youth literacies, teacher research, and qualitative research design. Her areas of research interest are literacy and identity, critical conversations in English education, and the written lives of youth.

Allen Webb is Professor of English at Western Michigan University. Webb is a former high school English teacher, professor of English education for 25 years, and author of a dozen books mostly for teachers published by Routledge, NCTE Press, and Heinemann.