CONFERENCE 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
sj Miller, Ph.D., a transdisciplinary award-winning teacher/writer/activist/scholar, is Coordinator of the Master in Science, Dual Teacher Certification Program in Secondary English Education and English as a Second Language at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. sj’s research is framed around trans*+disciplinary perspectives on social justice, which cut across theory, epistemology and pedagogy and links across socio-spatial justice, Urban Education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized/undervalued student literacies and identities with a particular emphasis on gender identity.
Currently, sj is Academic Studies Member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Advisory Board for the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE); Advisor for GLSEN’s Educator Advisory Committee; consultant for the College Board providing best practices to secondary Advanced Placement English teachers, and AP Literature Table Leader; coeditor of two book series Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, and Queering Teacher Education Across Contexts (Peter Lang Publishers); column editor of “Beyond Binary Gender Identities” for the English Journal; advisory board member for Routledge’s Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education, Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Teacher Education and Black Communities, Journal of LGBT Youth, The New Educator, and Taboo; UNESCO representative for the United States to develop Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in India with the Mohathma Gandhi Institute; and, senior advisor for PBS Learning Media about teaching transgender youth.
Notably, sj won the 2005 Article of the Year Award from the English Journal for “Shattering Images of Violence in Young Adult Literature: Strategies for the Classroom,” and co-authored Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms which received the Richard A. Meade award from NCTE. sj co-wrote the Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English Education and the NCTE Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which informed the newly-vetted CAEP Social Justice Standard 6-the first ever standard in the United States that advances social justice work in teacher preparation. Building from this foundation, sj formed the newly vetted NCTE Resolution and CEE Commission for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. sj co-authored Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for our Most Vulnerable Students, which was awarded "Essential Book for Professionals Who Serve Teens," by Voices of Youth Advocate Magazine, was named the 2015 recipient of the Joanne Arnold Courage and Commitment Award for contributions to advocacy and education in the lives of LGBTQ people: and, the recent book Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework was awarded the 2017 AERA Exemplary Research Award and Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of English, and was just recently translated into Spanish for distribution across Latin America through a collaboration between UNESCO, the Chilean Ministry of Education and the Alberto Hurtado University. Recently, sj appeared in a feature documentary, Gender: The Space Between on CBS, and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, BBC Radio, CBS News, Vice, and PBS.
sj has written over twenty-five book chapters and over fifty articles which have appeared in a number of journals including English Education, English Journal, The Harvard Review, The International Journal of Transgenderism, Alan Review, Teacher Education and Practice, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Sex Education, Multicultural Perspectives, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, the Educational Leadership Quarterly, Social Sciences and, Teachers College Record. Two forthcoming books are in the works: Gender identity justice: Sowing seeds for transformation in education (Teachers College Press), and Navigating trans*+ and non-binary gender identities (Bloomsbury Press).
sj presented on Gender Identity Justice at the TEDMED talks in November, 2018 in Palm Springs. Find sj on this page in the Youth/Truth section: www.tedmed.com/event/stageprogram
Currently, sj is Academic Studies Member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Advisory Board for the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE); Advisor for GLSEN’s Educator Advisory Committee; consultant for the College Board providing best practices to secondary Advanced Placement English teachers, and AP Literature Table Leader; coeditor of two book series Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, and Queering Teacher Education Across Contexts (Peter Lang Publishers); column editor of “Beyond Binary Gender Identities” for the English Journal; advisory board member for Routledge’s Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education, Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Teacher Education and Black Communities, Journal of LGBT Youth, The New Educator, and Taboo; UNESCO representative for the United States to develop Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in India with the Mohathma Gandhi Institute; and, senior advisor for PBS Learning Media about teaching transgender youth.
Notably, sj won the 2005 Article of the Year Award from the English Journal for “Shattering Images of Violence in Young Adult Literature: Strategies for the Classroom,” and co-authored Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms which received the Richard A. Meade award from NCTE. sj co-wrote the Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English Education and the NCTE Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which informed the newly-vetted CAEP Social Justice Standard 6-the first ever standard in the United States that advances social justice work in teacher preparation. Building from this foundation, sj formed the newly vetted NCTE Resolution and CEE Commission for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. sj co-authored Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for our Most Vulnerable Students, which was awarded "Essential Book for Professionals Who Serve Teens," by Voices of Youth Advocate Magazine, was named the 2015 recipient of the Joanne Arnold Courage and Commitment Award for contributions to advocacy and education in the lives of LGBTQ people: and, the recent book Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework was awarded the 2017 AERA Exemplary Research Award and Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of English, and was just recently translated into Spanish for distribution across Latin America through a collaboration between UNESCO, the Chilean Ministry of Education and the Alberto Hurtado University. Recently, sj appeared in a feature documentary, Gender: The Space Between on CBS, and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, BBC Radio, CBS News, Vice, and PBS.
sj has written over twenty-five book chapters and over fifty articles which have appeared in a number of journals including English Education, English Journal, The Harvard Review, The International Journal of Transgenderism, Alan Review, Teacher Education and Practice, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Sex Education, Multicultural Perspectives, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, the Educational Leadership Quarterly, Social Sciences and, Teachers College Record. Two forthcoming books are in the works: Gender identity justice: Sowing seeds for transformation in education (Teachers College Press), and Navigating trans*+ and non-binary gender identities (Bloomsbury Press).
sj presented on Gender Identity Justice at the TEDMED talks in November, 2018 in Palm Springs. Find sj on this page in the Youth/Truth section: www.tedmed.com/event/stageprogram
Watch for sj's newest book:
Miller, s. (in press). about gender identity justice in schools and communities. New York: Teachers College Press.
Miller, s. (in press). about gender identity justice in schools and communities. New York: Teachers College Press.