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Glenn, Wendy J.

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  • Wendy Glenn is Professor of Literacy Studies in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research centers on young adult literature and teacher education and how story can foster connection and invite disruption. She served as President of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English and Senior Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, The ALAN Review.

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  • Young adult literature, Critical pedagogy, Censorship

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  • EDUC 1001 - Humanities Teaching for Equity: Naming
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Critically frames learning to teach for equity and justice. Focuses on naming and examining students' identities and positionalities. Orients students to the School of Education's mission and guiding principles of the Secondary Humanities program. Meets weekly on CU campus.
  • EDUC 2001 - Humanities Teaching for Equity: Noticing
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Critically frames learning to teach for equity and justice. Focuses on noticing classroom and school spaces. Orients students to the School of Education's mission and guiding principles of the Secondary Humanities program. Meets weekly on CU campus. Includes 4 hours of middle school practicum each week.
  • EDUC 2311 - Children's Literature and Literacy Engagement in Elementary Schools
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Focuses on teaching children's literature in elementary schools & youth organizations. Participants will understand theoretical and developmental processes associated with literary learning, methods for teaching literature in a diverse society, and the integration of classroom instruction with the Colorado Academic Content Standards that foster such processes.
  • EDUC 2800 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
    Designed to meet needs of students with topics of interest. May be repeated up to 12 credit hours.
  • EDUC 3030 - Race, Class, and Gender in Young Adult Literature
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
    This course is designed for students who are interested in learning more about how race, class, and gender appear in literature for young people, ages 10-18, and how literary explorations of these intersecting elements of identity might enrich, complicate, and/or challenge how we see ourselves, others, and our world. Together and independently, we will read and share in conversation around several multicultural young adult texts across multiple genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and nonfiction.
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