Kerry is a doctoral student in Language and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research includes the pedagogical implications of, and alternatives to, white language ideologies in elementary writing instruction. She asks how teachers can expand critical linguistic consciousness by learning with and from their students in community and, in particular, how race, racism, and language are intertwined in neoliberal ethics of care and success.
Kerry is a PhD student in Language and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers the pedagogical implications of, and alternatives to, white language ideologies in elementary writing instruction. She asks how teachers can expand critical linguistic consciousness by learning with and from their students in community and, in particular, how race, racism, and language are intertwined in neoliberal ethics of care and success.
Melissa Wetzel (Supervisor)
Focuses on how preservice teachers integrate critical literacy and culturally relevant practices into field-based literacy teaching.
Tracey T Flores (Supervisor)
Her research focuses on Latina mothers and daughters language and literacy practices, the teaching of young writers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, and family and community literacies.
Alexander Caswell Ellis Fellowship in Education, College of Education, UT Austin (2020 - 2021)
Graduate Recruitment Fellowship, The University of Texas (2019)
Language Artistry
Writing, Art, and Life.
