Topics of Research and Outreach Interest

Please contact individual faculty members if you are interested in talking with them about their work.  It might be possible to join a research team, participate in a reading group about a particular topic, or sign up for a Research Apprenticeship with a faculty member.

Applied Linguistics
Artistic Interpretations of Literature
Arts-Based Research and Education
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Bilingualism and Cognition
Character Education
Children’s Literature
Cognitive Metaphor
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Corpus Learner Analysis
Corpus Linguists
Concept Development through Service-Learning
Critical Action Research
Critical Literacies
Critical Pedagogies
Critical Reading and Critical Thinking
Critical Theories and Methods in Educational Research
Critical, Multicultural Education
Deconstruction and Educational Research
Dialogue in K-12 and Teacher Education
Dialogical Teaching Practice
Discourse Analysis
Dual-language and Two-Way Immersion Education
Educational Equity for Disenfranchised Students
Early Literacy Development in Low Income Countries
Family Dialogue Journals
Family Funds of Knowledge
Family-School Partnerships
Feminist Research
Foucaultian Research Methods in Education
Heritage Language Education
Immigration Theory and Research
International Children’s Literature
Language and Literacy Education Policy Research
Latino Studies
Libraries and Literacy
Literacy Education in Africa
Literacy and Social Class
Media and Digital Literacies
Mental Health and Inclusive Education
Multicultural and Multilingual Children’s Literature
Narrative Inquiry
Older Southern Women
Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed
Popular Culture and Literacy Education
Post Qualitative Research
Literary Response
Postmodern and Poststructural Theories and Methods
Scientifically Based Research in Education
Second Language Acquisition
Situated Writing Process
Social Constructionist Theories and Methods in Education
Social Constructivist Theories and Education
Social Justice Education
Sociocultural Research
Sociocultural Contexts of Reading
Systemic Functional Linguistics
Teachers as Readers
Teacher Education
Teacher-Led and Small Group Discussions of Literature
Teachers’ Concept Development
Telecollaboration
TESOL
Transnational Literacies
Tutoring Children Experiencing Difficulties with Reading in School
Vygotskian Analysis of Teaching and Learning
Writing as a Method of Inquiry
Writing as Tool and Sign