Cynthia Lewis is Professor of Literacy and English Education and Director of Graduate Studies in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota.  Her scholarship investigates relationships between literacy and social identities and the impact of literacy discourse and practice on the lives of adolescent students and their teachers both in school and out.  Her recent work explores these matters in the context of literacies emerging from digital technologies and pop culture.  Her books include Literacy Practices as Social Acts: Power, Status, and Cultural Norms in the Classroom, and Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power (with Patricia Enciso and Elizabeth Moje), both recipients of the National Reading Conference’s Edward B. Fry Book Award for significant contributions to knowledge about literacy.  She has served as co-chair of the Research Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English and on the executive board of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy.