Dr. Stephanie Toliver, Watson Visiting Professor

When Mar 17, 2025 09:00 AM to
Mar 18, 2025 10:00 PM
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Dr. Stephanie R. Toliver, Distinguished Watson Visiting Professor, is visiting the English Department to give a workshop, co-teach a session of English 688, and meet graduate students and faculty.

Stephanie R. Toliver is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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.