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Stephanie R. Toliver is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in English Education and Adolescent/Secondary Literacy. In her research, Toliver employs creativity and imagination as tools to confront systemic inequities and promote more equitable education environments. Specifically, her scholarship focuses on three main areas: (1) investigating Black storytelling as a mechanism of social critique and transformation; (2) examining the applicability of speculative fiction (i.e., science fiction, horror, fantasy, etc.) as a tool to assist Black youth in articulating and challenging social injustice; and (3) exploring the use of creative and arts-based literacy pedagogies to help pre-service English teachers develop strategies to address racial injustice in their future classrooms. She is the author of the award-winning book, Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork, and her academic work has been published in several journals, including Equity, Excellence, & Education; Journal of Literacy Research; and Teachers College Record. Her public scholarship has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Ms. Magazine, and Visible Magazine. 

Keywords

  • L Education
  • Black Girls
  • Afrofuturism
  • Radical Imagination
  • Womanism
  • Black Feminism
  • Black Storytelling
  • Thematic Analysis
  • Critical Ethnography
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Endarkened Storywork
  • Reader Response Theory
  • Critical Content Analysis
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Critical Literacy
  • Arts-Based Methods
  • Young Adult Literature
  • Social Justice Theories
  • Preservice Teacher Training
  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
  • Arts-Based Research Methods

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