Language & Literacy Education
Christina L. Dobbs
Dr. Christina L. Dobbs is an assistant professor and director of the English Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include academic language development, the argumentative writing of students, and professional development for secondary content teachers. Dr. Dobbs’ work has been published in the Journal of Adolescent […]
Lana Edwards Santoro
Dr. Lana Edwards Santoro is a research professor in the Special Education program at BU Wheelock. She has presented extensively on how to apply evidence-based instructional strategies in the classroom. She has also coauthored multiple reading programs for elementary-grade students who struggle with reading, including Early Reading Intervention (Pearson), and Moving-up Literacy’s Enhanced Core Reading […]
Falon Eke
Falon E. Eke is a part-time instructor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is an educator with a deep interest in empowering immigrant and refugee families through language and literacy. As an immigrant to the United States, Ms. Eke is aware of some of the difficulties that come with adjusting […]
Hank Fien
Dr. Hank Fien is the Nancy H. Roberts Professor of Educational Innovation in the Teaching & Learning department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is also the director of the Wheelock Institute for the Science of Educatoin and the National Center on Improving Literacy. Dr. Fien’s research is focused on […]
Elena Forzani
Dr. Elena Forzani is an assistant professor in literacy education at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Forzani’s research centers on using multiple and mixed methods to understand and support digital literacies practices across the elementary and secondary levels. In particular, her work investigates the cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational dimensions of […]
Katherine Frankel
Dr. Katherine K. Frankel is an associate professor of literacy education and chair of the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Frankel teaches graduate courses in literacy and qualitative methods. Her research focuses on adolescent literacy, broadly, including how to support adolescents’ literacy learning across […]
Maliki Ghossainy
Maliki Eyvonne Ghossainy is a senior research scientist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. A psychological scientist and statistician, she integrates social, cognitive, cultural, and biological mechanisms into a model of belief formation across the early childhood years. Using mixed-methods designs, Dr. Ghossainy studies the sophisticated ways in which children judiciously evaluate […]
Ashley Houston King
Ashley Houston King is a doctoral student at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development studying language and literacy in education. Her research interests include studying the intersections of identities, race, and Blackness in education. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Ashley taught in a public elementary school for five years, where she was […]
Mary E. Hughes
Dr. Mary Hughes is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Hughes’ research and teaching interests include linguistics, first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language education, and language revitalization. Her first language acquisition research focuses on the interaction of syntactic and discourse–pragmatic […]
Davena Jackson
Dr. Davena Jackson is an assistant professor of urban education in the Teaching & Learning Department, where she focuses on English education, language, and literacy. A veteran English educator of more than 20 years, her research-practice partnerships have sought to disrupt anti-Blackness, anti-Black racism, and white supremacy in secondary English education and classrooms. Her research […]