2023 NCTE Cosponsored Speakers - National Council of Teachers of English

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2023 NCTE Cosponsored Speakers

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Authors:

 

Danelle Adeniji 

Executive committee member 

Queer education; elementary education 

 

 


 

Damián Baca 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

Member, NCTE Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English; author, Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise 

Indigenous and Latinx writing practices; decolonial theory and praxis  

 


 

Arianna Banack

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 

Co-editor, The ALAN Review; board member, Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN) 

Young adult literature; critical literacy 

 


 

Limarys Caraballo 

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 

Chair, NCTE Standing Committee on Research 

Curriculum; youth voice and engagement; teacher learning 

 


Josh Coleman

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 

Member, NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee

Book bans; LGBTQIA+ youth literature; queer and trans teacher and student well-being 


 

Frankie Condon 

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

Member, NCTE Executive Committee

Antiracist rhetoric and pedagogy; writing center theory and practice; critical race theory 

 


 

Joanne Baird Giordano 

Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT 

Chair, Two-Year College English Association 

Open-admissions literacy programs; inclusive teaching; college reading

 


 

Bump Halbritter 

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 

Editor 

Reflective writing practices; story-based writing curricula; inquiry in education

 


 

Lyn Fairchild Hawks 

Chapel Hill, NC 

Author

Differentiating Shakespeare; writing the college application essay; teaching young adult literature 

 


 

Darin L. Jensen 

Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT 

Editor, Teaching English in the Two-Year College; member, Two-Year College English Association Executive Committee, CCCC Executive Committee

Two-year college writing studies; literacy in writing studies; reading in composition, preparing graduate students to teach in two-year colleges

 


 

William Kist 

Kent State University (emeritus) 

Editor 

Adolescent literacy; technology integration; pop culture in classrooms 

 


 

Julie Lindquist 

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 

Author 

Reflective writing practices; story-based curricula; inquiry in education 

 


 

Cassandra Lo 

St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY 

Author

Trauma-sensitive pedagogy; relational teaching; culturally responsive teaching

 


 

Emily Meixner 

The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 

Member, NCTE Executive Committee; Chair, Conference on English Leadership 

Reading and writing pedagogy; teacher preparation and novice teacher mentoring; children’s and young adult literature 

 


 

Henry “Cody” Miller

SUNY Brockport, Rochester, NY 

Editor, English Leadership Quarterly; former chair, NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee 

Young adult literature; LGBTQIA+ inclusion; book bans 

 


 

Renee M. Moreno 

California State University, Northridge, CA 

Member, NCTE Executive Committee

Diversity and inclusion among college students; ethnic studies curriculum; Chicana/o literature

 


 

Michele Myers 

Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 

Coauthor, Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Literacy Classroom; member, NCTE Executive Committee

Literacy education; partnering with families and communities; family and community literacies; culturally relevant pedagogy


 

Amy Nyeholt 

PA Cyber, Midland, PA 

Chair, NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates 

Affiliate leadership, membership, and programming; strategic planning 

 


 

Sandra Lucia Osorio 

Erikson Institute, Chicago, IL 

Coeditor, Language Arts 

Critical literacies and pedagogies; equity and justice in early childhood education; translanguaging; multiculturalism; multilingual learning 


 

Patricia Paugh 

University of Massachusetts Boston 

Coeditor, Talking Points; coauthor, Learning to be Literate: More Than a Single Story 

Early literacy; disciplinary literacies 

 


 

Nawal Qarooni 

NQC Literacy, Jersey City, NJ, and Chicago, IL 

Member, NCTE Committee for Antibias and Antiracism in the Teaching of English 

Holistic literacy instructional practices; family engagement; multilingualism; multimodal writing; composition; text selection; conferring; antibias and antiracist teaching 


 

Keisha Rembert 

National Louis University, Chicago, IL 

Member, NCTE Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English 

Antiracist ELA practices; culturally responsive/relevant pedagogy; social justice Integration

 


 

 

Michal Reznizki 

University of California, Berkeley 

Author

Student engagement; teaching writing with active learning 

 


 

Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

President-Elect, NCTE 

Online teaching and learning; administration; writing 

 


 

Sanjuana C. Rodriguez 

Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 

Member, NCTE Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusivity 

Diverse children’s literature; culturally relevant pedagogy; early literacy 

 


René M. Rodríguez-Astacio 

California State University, Fresno 

Member, NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advisory Committee

Teaching literature to adolescents; queer and Latinx young adult literature; social justice in children’s and young adult literature 

 


 

Susanne Rubenstein 

Wachusett Regional High School, Holden, MA (retired) 

Author, Can We Talk? Encouraging Conversation in High School Classrooms and Speak for Yourself: Writing with Voice

Promoting communication, connection, and collaboration; writing and the development of voice 


 

Pauline Skowron Schmidt 

West Chester University, West Chester, PA 

Author in the NCTE Principles in Practice imprint 

Infusing technology into the ELA curriculum in meaningful ways; arts-based and place-based pedagogies; multimodality and literacies 


 

Robyn Seglem 

Illinois State University, Normal, IL 

Coeditor, Voices from the Middle 

Teachers as researchers and writers; inquiry in the language arts 

 


 

Melanie Shoffner

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 

Editor, English Education 

Writing for publication generally; writing for English Education 

 


 

Sheridan Steelman 

Northview Public Schools (retired) 

Author, Walking in Shakespeare’s Shoes: Connecting His World and Ours Using Primary Sources

Topics: “Dynamic Teaching Strategies to Engage, Energize, and Enrich”; “50 Years of Teaching: How Students Continue to Lead the Way”; “Disrupting Teacher Turnover: Preservice Training and Mentorships” 


 

Josh Thompson 

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 

Chair, NCTE Secondary Section Steering Committee 

LGBTQIA+ topics in education; independent reading; rural education; student-centered pedagogy and assessment 

 


 

Christie Toth 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT 

Co-editor of Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College: Background Readings and co-author of Transfer in an Urban Writing Ecology: Reimagining Community College–University Relations in Composition Studies.

Community college transfer student writing experiences Community college-university partnerships in writing studies Graduate preparation for community college writing faculty 


 

Adam Wolfsdorf 

New York University; Bay Ridge Preparatory High School, Brooklyn, NY 

Author 

Trauma-informed pedagogy; teaching Shakespeare; literature and adolescence

 


 

Shane A. Wood 

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 

Author 

Theory and teaching of writing; writing program administration; multimodality 

 


 

Rebecca Woodard 

University of Illinois Chicago 

Coeditor, Language Arts 

Writing and digital literacies; critical and culturally sustaining literacy pedagogy; climate change and environmental justice