Mothering and Literacies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781927335147)

Amanda Richey is an assistant professor of TESOL at Kennesaw State Uiversity in Georgia. Amanda earned her Ph.D. from Tennessee Technological University in Exceptional Learning and Literacy. Before her doctoral studies, she worked as a freelance writer, EFL teacher, and a health volunteer for the Peace Corps in Morocco. Her research and publications are focused on issues of gender and literacy, representations of Islam in education, and multicultural education. As a mother of two small children, Amanda has learned firsthand how the blurring of mothering and literacy opens up spaces for the reconfiguration of both. Linda Shuford Evans is an assistant professor of TESOL teacher education at Kennesaw State University. Linda's interest in literacy was kindled as she studied for her bachelor's and master's degrees in Elementary Bilingual Education at Boston University, culminating in a master's thesis on teaching language through storytelling. She earned her doctorate in Literacy and Language Arts at the University of South Florida and engaged in literacy education through her work as a teacher educator of foreign languages and English as a second language; her research on language acquisition, reading, and giftedness; and her workshops for teachers on bilingualism, biliteracy and dual language education. The literacy work which made her rethink everything she knew and believed, however, came with the births of her children Abby and Zach over 20 years ago, and that rethinking continues today