Shea Kerkhoff
Dr. Shea Kerkhoff is known for her work in disciplinary literacies, adolescent literacy instruction, and literacies in global contexts. She utilizes mixed methods to investigate critical, digital, and global literacies. Her research centers on integrating inquiry-based global learning with adolescent literacy instruction. Her work has been published in Literacy Research and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, Voices from the Middle, English Leadership Quarterly, and Changing English, as well as other venues. She is co-author of Read, write, inquire: Disciplinary literacy in grades 6-12 with Drs. Hiller Spires and Casey Medlock Paul. Her forthcoming book, Critical perspectives on global literacies: Bridging research and practice, co-authored with Dr. Spires is currently in press with Routledge Publishers. She has been awarded over 5 million dollars in grants as PI and co-PI. Dr. Kerkhoff was recently awarded Co-investigator of the Year at University of Missouri-St. Louis. Shea is former Assistant Editor of English Education, a National Council of Teachers of English journal. She also serves as Going Global, Inc.'s Education Director and previously served as Education Director for ‘4 the World’. In this capacity, the International Literacy Association awarded her the Constance McCullough grant to conduct inquiry-based digital literacy professional development and research with teachers in Kitale, Kenya. Dr. Kerkhoff is affiliated faculty with the Show Me Literacies Collaborative and in 2018 was named a Longview Foundation Global Teacher Educator fellow. Shea is passionate about literacy education at home and abroad. She taught high school English for seven years, including North Carolina and District of Columbia Public Schools. Dr. Kerkhoff holds a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in literacy and language education. She is an Assistant Professor of literacy and secondary education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
You can connect with Dr. Kerkhoff at https://sheakerkhoff.weebly.com/
To Cite this Episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2023, Mar. 28). A conversation with Shea Kerkhoff. (Season 3, No. 21) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/1E5D-51BF-BA59-2A4B-DDE1-S