- Post Doctoral Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington, 2006
Beth Lewis Samuelson
Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture and Language Education, School of Education
Affiliate, Study of Global Change
Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture and Language Education, School of Education
Affiliate, Study of Global Change
I am an Associate Professor of Literacy, Culture and Language Education (LCLE) at the Indiana University School of Education, where I teach classes in literacy theory and in the English-as-a-second language and World Languages teacher education programs. I am an educational linguist with a strong background in language learning and cross-cultural experience in non-Western contexts. I was a 2006-2008 Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow and a finalist in the 2006 National Council of Teachers of English Promising Researcher award. From 2008-2011, I was the faculty advisor to the Books & Beyond project, a co-curricular service-learning project by the Global Village Living-Learning Center that supports storytelling and book publishing by elementary and middle school students in the United States and Rwanda. I currently serve on the board of Books & Beyond. My research interests include language awareness and the flows of English literacy practices across global boundaries. I have particular interests in understanding the nature of meta-knowledge about language and the role that it plays in critical literacy and language learning. I received a 2012 Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award from Facing History and Ourselves. I am an adjunct faculty member in the African Studies Program and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for the Study of Global Change, both in the IU School of International Studies.