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Biography

Dr. Kelsey Jones-Greer is a clinical assistant professor of Reading and Literacy with a focus on adolescent literacy. As a member of the Department of Instruction and Leadership in Education (DILE) in Duquesne's School of Education, Dr. Jones-Greer teaches undergraduate education courses as well as graduate level courses for the M.S.Ed. Reading and Literacy Education program. Prior to joining the DILE faculty, she worked as a graduate teaching and research assistant at Penn State University in the English Education program. She focuses her teaching on preparing humanizing teachers for increasingly diverse student populations. Her areas of expertise include adolescence, equity and diversity, language and literacy education, teacher inquiry, and place-consciousness/rural education.

Education

  • Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State University, 2024
  • M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State University, 2018
  • B.A., Secondary Education and English, West Virginia Wesleyan, 2013

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Profile Information

  • EDLS 340/LTML 313: Adolescent Literature
  • EDLS 343/GSCE 637: Secondary English Methods
  • EDLS/LTML 421: Secondary Capstone Experience
  • GRLA 620: Literacy Assessment & Intervention
  • GRLA 630: Seminar in Literacy
  • GSCE 540: Adolescent Literature

Land, C., Rubin, J. Jones-Greer, K.R. (2022). Unsettling Language Ideologies in Writing Teacher Education. Waikato Journal of Education.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2023). “Cool it for a bit”: Navigating antiracism in one rural context. In P. Badenhorst, S.J. Tanner, J. Grinage. (Eds.), Reckoning with the Whiteness in English Education. Teachers College Press.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2024, November). Centering rural humanity: Happenings in a virtual critical inquiry group for antiracist rural ELA teachers [Roundtable session for The Rural Assemble on English Literacy and Language Education]. National Council for the Teachers of English Annual Convention, Boston, Maine.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2024, November). Hopeful rural futures: Humanizing pedagogies to live well in our total environments [Roundtable session for ELATE Social Justice Commission]. National Council for the Teachers of English Annual Convention, Boston, Maine.

Land, C., Jones-Greer, K.R. & Knotts, M.R. (2024, April). Planting Critical Seeds and Pursuing Humanizing and Antiracist Pedagogies through Teacher Inquiry. [Paper Session]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2023, November). Critical collaborative community: Happenings in a virtual critical inquiry group for antiracist rural ELA teachers [Roundtable session for English Language Arts Teacher Educators Social Justice Committee]. National Council of the Teachers of English Annual Convention, Columbus, Ohio.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2023, July). Healing and Self Love through Critical Whiteness Pedagogy: A Soulful Justice Approach [Roundtable session]. English Language Arts Teacher Educators Summer-p'; Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2022, November). Developing White Teacher Antiracist Stances through Critical Whiteness Pedagogies [Roundtable session for English Language Arts Teacher Educators Social Justice Committee]. National Council of the Teachers of English Annual Convention, Anaheim, California.

Jones-Greer, K.R. (2022, October). Toward a Placed Approach to Critical Whiteness in Rural Schools [Conference Session]. Curriculum and Pedagogy Group Annual Conference, State College, Pennsylvania.