Scholar, teacher educator, and former high school English teacher.

Narrative Profile

My professional identity sits at the intersection of scholarship, teacher education, and creative practice. My work moves between academic research, classroom experience, public writing, and visual culture without flattening any of those modes into the others.

Rather than treating literacy as an abstract skill alone, I study how people make meaning through story, image, humor, culture, and social life. That orientation shapes both my scholarship and the way I mentor future educators.

The through-line is a commitment to more human learning spaces: spaces where children, youth, and teachers are treated as thinkers, artists, and agents of critique rather than passive recipients of instruction.