Grace Kang, PhD

Dr. Grace Kang (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Elementary Literacy at Illinois State University. She is a former K-6 classroom teacher, reading specialist, and enrichment teacher in diverse contexts. Her areas of expertise include culturally sustaining pedagogies, humanizing critical writing instruction, narrow definitions of literacy, and anti-racist teacher education, specifically in writing.

Recent Scholarship

Kang, G. Y. (accepted). Moving Towards Cosmopolitan & Critical Perspectives in a Writing Course. Madden, L., Eds. (under contract). Starting Small. Rowman and Littlefield.

Smith, A., Kline, S., Kang, G., Roozen, K. & Beach, R. (in Project Title: Investigating the Transformative Potential of Humanizing Writing Pedagogy in Teacher Education and Beyond Through Multi-State Collaborative Research press; anticipated 2024). Sociocultural approaches to centering the developing writer in writing instruction. Handbook of Writing Research. The Guilford Press.

Kang, G. Y. (2022). (Re)thinking and (Re)shifting literacy practices toward Culturally Sustaining Ways. Pathways to Research in Education, EDU091, 1-17.

Kline, S., & Kang, G. Y. (2022).Reflect, Reimagine, Revisit: A Framework for Centering Critical Writing Pedagogy. Language Arts, 99(5), 300-311.

Kang, G. Y. & Kline, S. (2020). Critical literacy as a tool for social change: Negotiating tensions in a pre-service teacher education writing course. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 16(2), 1-16.

Kang, G. Y., & Osorio, S. (2020). Complicating literature circles: Enacting literature discussions in an early elementary classroom with an anti-racist lens. Illinois Reading Council Journal, 48(4), 3-10.