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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