Deborah Appleman

Education & Professional History

University of Minnesota, BS, MA, PhD

Highlights & Recent Activity

Conferences:

Disrupting School Pushout and Mass Incarceration: What Antiracist Educators Can Do by Teaching for Equity and Justice, National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, November 21, 2021 (virtual)

Invited talks:

Literary theory in the high school Classroom, UC-SantaCruz (virtual), Tuesday, Oct 19, 2021

Literary theory in the high school Classroom, Teachers College-Columbia University,  November 1, 2021(virtual)

Reading the word and the world, Augsburg University, November 16, 2021

Inservices:

Decolonizing the High School Curriculum, Henry High School, Minneapolis, MN November 9, 2021

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

National Council of Teachers of English

American Educational Research Association

Education Minnesota

Save the Kids

Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop

Minnesota Association of Colleges of Teacher Education

American Studies Association

Rethinking Schools

Minnesota Council of Teachers of English

• Adolescent Education
• Adolescent Literacy
• American Adolescence
• American Studies
• High Schools
• Literary Theory
• Prison Teaching
• School to Prison Pipeline
• Teacher Education
• Teaching Literature
• Urban Education

Appleman, D. (2022) Literature and the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture, and the Teacher’s Dilemma. New York: WW. Norton

Williamson, p. and Appleman, D., eds. (2021). School, not Jail: How Educators Can Disrupt School Pushout and Mass Incarceration. (forthcoming) Teachers College Press.

Appleman, D. (2019). Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning as Liberation, W. W. Norton & Company.

Appleman, D. (2015). Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to      Adolescents, NCTE Teachers College Press.  Third Edition.

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