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I am an assistant professor of English education at Utah State University.  I am based at USU's Uintah Basin campus.  My interests include 21st century literacies, digital literacies, adolescent literacy, young adult literature, writing pedagogy, teacher education, secondary curriculum and pedagogy, and educational technology.  I am interested in how digital technologies impact literacy, literacy education, and the preparation of secondary English teachers.  I am also interested how digital texts and young adult literature enable a more expansive view of literacy and ways to teach literacy.  I have the good fortune to collaborate with fellow scholars through the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research.  I have taught middle school English Language Arts, high school English, college composition, and teacher education courses.  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!