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Katie Harlan Eller
Assistant Professor of Literacy Education
Bio
Katie Harlan Eller (she/her) holds a PhD in English Education with a Teacher Education Specialization from Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to joining the Marist College faculty, she was an instructor in the Departments of Teaching and Learning at NYU Steinhardt, Teachers College, Bank Street, and Hunter College as well as the Workshop Coordinator for TC's Reimagining Education: Teaching, Learning, and Leading for a Racially Just Society. Her teaching and research in literacy and justice are informed by 15 years in various classroom, professional development, and educational leadership roles as well as 5 years as an undergraduate and graduate teacher educator.
Harlan Eller is affiliated with American Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER), National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), and the American Education Research Association (AERA). She has presented her research at regional, national, and international conferences, including the recent International Conference on Multimodality (ICOM) in London, U.K.
Education
PhD, English Education, Columbia University, 2024
MPhil, English Education, Columbia University, 2023
MA, Liberal Studies, Duke University, 2017
BS, Education, Baylor University, 2005
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Anti-oppressive pedagogies, critical literacies, culturally and historically responsive literacies, racial justice and equity, and critical, abolitionist frameworks in literacy teacher education
Selected Publications
Touloukian, C., Price-Dennis, D., & Harlan Eller, K. (2024). "Listening and Learning from Teachers: Lessons from K-12 Educators at the Intersection of Culturally Responsive and Digital Pedagogies during a Historic Moment" (accepted August 2024, Teachers College Record)
Harlan Eller, K. (2021), "Black Feminist Love: an Open Letter to My Children," Bank Street Occasional Papers. New York, NY.
Price-Dennis, D., Touloukian, C., Moore, T., Harlan Eller, K. & Fu, D. (2022). Pedagogies of possibility: Exploring culturally responsive education during COVID-19. JustLit Project. Teachers College, Columbia University. (Spencer Grant-Funded Research Report)
Harlan Eller, K. (2021) What is Home? Hughes, Woodson, + Art, Teaching the Harlem Renaissance in the 21st Century. Jointly published through Columbia University, the Roger Lehecka Double Discovery Center, the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, and the Wallach Art Gallery.
Price-Dennis, D. Barros Cruz, L. Eller, K. Knight, R. Mapes, N. Mateo-Toledo, J. & Truss, A. (2020) We Are Curating Media for Social Change, Media Literacy Now.
Eller, K. (2013) Educating the Young Wizard: J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, and Xenophilius Lovegood. Zeteo: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing, Fall 2013 Issue
Selected Presentations
"The Inward and Outward Pedagogies of White Anti-Racist Teachers," NCTE Annual Convention, 2024
"Working Toward 'We': (white) Anti-Racist Literacy Teachers," ALER Annual Conference, 2024
"(White) Anti-Racist Literacy Teachers," AERA Annual Meeting, 2024
"Destabilizing Whiteness in 'Entrenched Literacy Pathways': Fostering Racial Literacy through Race-Conscious Reader Response," NCTE Annual Convention, 2023
"Making a Way out of No Way: Fostering Racial Literacy in Teacher Education through Co-Created and Collaborative Professional Partnerships," NCTE Annual Convention, 2023
"Subversive Teaching: Liberatory Literacy Pedagogy in an Age of Curriculum Restrictions," ALER Annual Conference, 2023
"Anyone else?: A Self-Study of Whiteness and Belonging in ELA Teacher Education," NCTE Annual Convention, 2023
"Collaborative Multimodal Reading Responses in Teacher Education," Designing Futures: 11th International Conference on Multimodality (ICOM-11), London, U.K., 2023
"Collaborative Multimodal Projects as Healing Pedagogy: Resisting White Supremacy through Racially Just Project-Based Learning in Higher Education,"National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, 2023
"Going Remote: Exploring the Intersections of Culturally Responsive and Digital Pedagogies during the COVID-19 Pandemic," AERA 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023
"Listening to Teachers: A Multilevel Sociopolitical Analysis of Culturally Responsive and Digital Pedagogies during COVID-19,"AERA 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023
"Shining the Light in Nontraditional Education Spaces: Healing Pedagogies in English Education," NCTE Annual Convention, 2022
"Pedagogies of Possibility: Uplifting Culturally Responsive Approaches to Online Teaching and Learning," NCTE Annual Convention, 2022
"Listening and Learning from Teachers: Lessons from K-12 Educators' Experiences at the Intersections of Culturally Responsive and Digital Pedagogies during a Historic Moment,"Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, 2022
"Fostering Racial Literacy through Children's Literature," NCTE Annual Convention, 2020
"NaNoWriMo: Life Lessons through Creative Writing in the Middle Grades," North Carolina Association of Independent Schools (NCAIS) Annual Conference, 2018
Awards and Honors
Teachers College Institution-Wide Dissertation Research Fellowship 2023-2024
NYU Teaching and Learning Innovation in Curriculum Grant 2022, 2023, 2024
Zankel Urban Fellowship 2019-2021
Carl H. Pforzheimer Scholarship, Teachers College, Columbia University 2019-2020
Ira and Esther Gordon Award, UNC Chapel Hill 2019
Exemplary Master's Project, Duke University 2017
Joyce B. Franke Scholarship, Duke University 2013
Distinguished Educator of the Year, Ramseur Elementary School (NC) 2011-2012
