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April Baker-Bell - Fireside Chat with Assistant Professors

Champaign , USA
The O'Leary Learning Center, 10 Education Building

The O'Leary Learning Center, 10 Education Building

Event Type: Other

Speaker Information: April Baker-Bell

College of Education assistant professors are invited to join Dr. April Baker-Bell for an informal fireside chat after her lunchtime lecture (12:15 pm, 22 Education).

Dr. Baker-Bell is a transdisciplinary teacher-researcher-activist and Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and English Education in the Department of English and Department of African American and African Studies. A national leader in conversations on Black Language education, her research interrogates the intersections of Black language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and antiracist pedagogies, and is concerned with antiracist writing, critical media literacies, Black feminist-womanist storytelling, and self-preservation for Black women in academia, with an emphasis on early career Black women. 

Contact: Amy Summers
arsummer@illinois.edu

College of Education
1310 S. Sixth St.
Champaign, IL 61820-6925
Phone: 217-333-0960
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