Amy Vetter & Melissa Schieble
Dr. Amy Vetter has developed a scholarly record that underscores the significance of classroom interactions for impacting the development of reader/writing identities and teacher identities, the role critical conversations play in educational settings, and the importance of learning from youth’s writing identities. She teaches undergraduate courses in teaching practices and curriculum of English and literacy in the content area, and graduate courses in youth literacies, teacher research, and qualitative research design. She also co-directs a young writers’ camp at University of North Carolina, Greensboro in the summer. Before her career in higher education, she taught all levels of tenth and twelfth grade English in Austin, Texas. Dr. Amy Vetter is now a Professor of English Education in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Dr. Melissa Schieble’s research focuses on analyses of power, privilege and oppression in fiction for youth and in classroom discourse. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Literacy, Young Adult Literature, diversity, and qualitative research methodologies. In addition to her work with Amy and Kahdeidra, she has published several articles and book chapters that promote liberatory practices in English language arts and literacy through the teaching of literature. Dr. Schieble was formerly an English teacher at the middle and high school level. Melissa recently served as a Hunter College Racial Equity Fellow. Dr. Melissa Schieble is a Professor of English Education at Hunter College and Urban Education at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2023, Apr. 11). A conversation with Amy Vetter and Melissa Schieble (Season 3, No. 22) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/26D8-D7C3-D4B1-E9FF-DB33-R