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Mandie B. Dunn, Ph.D.
Dunn is an associate professor of English education at the University of South 手机看片. Her scholarship centers teachers鈥� lives and well-being, with a focus on the relationship between teachers鈥� emotions and their pedagogy. Her research examines how teachers who are grieving the death of a loved one navigate reading, writing and thinking with students while managing their emotional labor in the classroom.
Through this work, Dunn identifies the challenges grieving teachers face and the supports needed to sustain them during bereavement in the workplace. Her research has been published in leading journals, including Reading Research Quarterly, English Education and English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
Dunn鈥檚 areas of expertise include teacher well-being, teacher grief, emotional labor and English language arts curriculum. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, English Language Arts Teacher Educators and the American Educational Research Association.
Education
- PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, Michigan State University
- MEd, English Education, The University of Georgia
- BA, English; BSEd English Education with 6-12 Secondary English Teaching Certification, The University of Georgia
