Research Colloquium on April 14: Marcelle Haddix

A Retrospective on Being A Community-Engaged Black Woman Scholar

Friday, April 14
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Aderhold Hall Room G5

In this talk, Marcelle Haddix will share her journey as a community-engaged scholar whose work is deeply informed by her intersecting identities of being a Black woman, mother, daughter, sister, teacher, and researcher. She will describe theoretical and methodological moves from the beginning and throughout her research inquiries, highlighting examples from her work with urban youth in the Writing Our Lives project, with Black adolescent girls in the Dark Girls Celebration of Black Girlhood project, and with students of color in teacher preparation programs. Her talk will emphasize the kinds of theoretical and methodological approaches generated and required when working with/in one’s own community and with activist aims.

Haddix is a dean’s associate professor and chair of the reading and language arts department in the Syracuse University School of Education. Her scholarly interests center on the experiences of students of color in literacy and English teaching and teacher education and the importance of centering Blackness in educational practices and spaces. She directs two literacy programs for adolescent youth: the Writing Our Lives project, a program geared toward supporting the writing practices of urban middle and high school students within and beyond school contexts, and the Dark Girls afterschool program for Black middle school girls aimed at celebrating Black girl literacies. Haddix’s work is featured in Research in the Teaching of English, English Education, Linguistics and Education, and Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, as well as in her recently published book, Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me. Her awards and recognitions include the American Educational Research Association Division K Early Career Award; the National Council for Teachers of English Promising Researcher Award; and the NCTE Janet Emig Award. She is the vice president of the Literacy Research Association. She earned a Ph.D. from Boston College, a master’s degree in education from Cardinal Stritch University, and a bachelor’s degree in English education from Drake University.