Elizabeth Dinkins, Ph.D. (email) is Dean of the School of Education & Associate Professor of Literacy Education. She received her doctorate in English Education from the University of Virginia, her Master’s in education from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and her Bachelor’s from The Evergreen State College. Before beginning her career in higher education, Dr. Dinkins taught middle school language arts and coordinated school-wide literacy instruction. Her research interests include writing instruction, instructional use of young adult literature, approaches to school-wide literacy, and how critical literacy can be used to help students read and write their world. Her work has appeared in English Journal and Middle Grades Research Journal. She teaches classes in literacy education and qualitative research methodologies.