Mandie Dunn
Dr. Mandie Bevels Dunn is known for her work in the area of teacher wellness. In particular, she studies how teachers who were grieving a death managed their emotions in the context of teaching in English language arts classrooms. In studying teachers’ grief-related emotions, she focuses on how power dynamics between teachers and students influence what teachers disclose or hide about loss experiences when they talk, read, or write with students, and how these power dynamics are further influenced by identity positions such as race, class, and gender. Her research has been published in Reading Research Quarterly, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, and Written Communication, among other scholarly outlets, and her research has been funded by a Research Initiative grant from English Language Arts Teacher Educators. Her article Teaching Literature Following Loss: Teachers’ Adherence to Emotional Rules, published in English Teaching: Practice and Critique in August 2021, won the 2022 Literati Outstanding Paper award from Emerald Publishing. From 2020-2022, she chaired the Early Career Cohort (ECC) of National Council of Teachers of English, Assembly for Research (NCTEAR), an organization she proposed, founded, and secured funding for, and that now supports early career literacy scholars nation-wide, including many who have been continually disadvantaged within institutional structures. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and English Education from the University of Georgia, and a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education from Michigan State University. Dr. Dunn is an Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
To Cite this Episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2022, Nov. 22). A conversation with Mandie Dunn. (Season 3, No. 12) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/A984-8A74-8A84-715E-DAE8-A