Ernest Morrell appointed director of new Center for Literacy Education in joint Arts and Letters hire (Notre Dame News)

Ernest Morrell — expert in critical educational theory, social movement theory, English education and African diaspora popular culture — has been appointed Coyle Professor in Literacy Education and inaugural director of the Center for Literacy Education in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives. He will join the faculty in fall 2017, holding joint appointments in the Department of English and the Department of Africana Studies.

The new Center for Literacy Education will foster collaboration between the institute’s English education faculty and the College of Arts and Letters with a goal to transform literacy scholarship and practice in today’s urban and multicultural urban schools.

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