Thursday, June 3
10:30-12:00pm EST
Qualitative Track
Title: When My Reflection Looks Back At Me: A Retrospective on Being A Black Feminist Community Engaged Scholar
Abstract: In this workshop, Dr. Haddix will share her journey as a community engaged scholar whose work is deeply informed by her intersecting identities of being a Black woman, mother, daughter, sister, teacher, and researcher. She will describe theoretical and methodological moves from the beginning and throughout her research inquiries, highlighting examples from her work with urban youth in the Writing Our Lives project, within Black women centered community spaces, and with students of color in teacher preparation programs. Her workshop will emphasize the kinds of theoretical and methodological approaches generated and required when working with/in one’s own community and with activist aims.
Presenter:
Dr. Marcelle Haddix
Chair, Reading & Language Arts
Dean’s Professor
Syracuse University
Biography:
Marcelle Haddix, PhD (she/her) is a Dean’s Professor and chair of the Reading and Language Arts department in the Syracuse University School of Education, where she is an inaugural co-Director of the Lender Center for Social Justice. She is the 2019 President of the Literacy Research Association. She facilitates literacy programs for adolescent and adult communities in Syracuse, including the Writing Our Lives project for urban youth writers and a Black women’s literary club and free library project. Dr. Haddix’s scholarly work is published in Research in the Teaching of English, English Education, Linguistics and Education, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Her book, Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me, received the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
