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I am an assistant professor of English education at Utah State University.  My scholarly work focuses on digital literacies, young adult literature, teacher education, and secondary curriculum and pedagogy.  I am interested in how digital technologies impact literacy, literacy education, and the preparation of secondary English teachers.  I examine the ways digital technologies and contemporary young adult texts enable a more expansive view of literacy and literacy education.  I have the good fortune to collaborate with fellow scholars through the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age.  I have taught middle school English Language Arts, high school English, college composition, teacher education courses, and graduate courses in literacy education.  I hold a B.A. in English with Liberal Arts Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, a M.A. in English from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a major in English Education from Florida State University.

Check out Educational Technology and Resources for Synchronous Learning in Higher Education, which includes a chapter Dr. Marla Robertson and I co-authored, "Authentic Inquiry With Undergraduate Preservice Teachers in Synchronous Interactive Video Conferencing Courses"
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​Check out my chapter "Flipping the Teaching of Young Adult Literature With Preservice Teachers" in the book Towards a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm With Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature 

Check out my article, written with Dr. Marla Robertson, in the Journal of Empowering Teaching Excellence on using videoconferencing in distance courses!