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Stephanie R. Toliver is an Assistant Professor in Curriculum Instruction at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, focusing on English Education and Adolescent/Secondary Literacy. She employs creativity and imagination as tools to confront systemic inequities and promote equitable educational environments. Her research primarily investigates Black storytelling as a mechanism for social critique and transformation, the use of speculative fiction as a tool for Black youth to articulate challenging social injustices, and the exploration of creative arts-based literacy pedagogies to help pre-service English teachers develop strategies to address racial injustice in future classrooms. An author of the award-winning book "Recovering Black Storytelling: Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork," Toliver's academic work has been published in journals such as 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.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Teaching and researching topics related to English Education and Adolescent/Secondary Literacy.
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