Julie Pennington is a professor of literacy studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research interests include the use of autoethnography in teacher education and pursuing questions related to how teachers approach literacy instruction in linguistically and culturally diverse settings. Dr. Pennington is the author of several books, including The Colonization of Literacy Education: A Story of Reading in One Elementary School, and co-author of Educating for Critical Democratic Literacy and Authoethnography: Process, Product, and Possibility for Critical Social Research.
