Ernest Morrell
Professor Ernest Morrell is the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Center for Literacy Education, and a faculty member of the Departments of Africana Studies and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is also an elected member of the AERA Council and Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, a past-president of the National Council of Teachers of English, an appointed member of the International Literacy Association’s Research Panel, and convener of the African Diaspora International Research Network. His areas of interest include: Literacy Studies, the African Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, Media and Popular Culture, and International Education. In 2015, 2016, and 2017, Professor Morrell was ranked among the top 100 university-based education scholars in the Annual EdWeek RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Ernest is also the recipient of the 2017 Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies. Ernest has written more than 80 articles and book chapters appearing in publications such as Research in the Teaching of English, Teachers College Record, the Journal of Teacher Education, Reading Research Quarterly, English Education, the English Journal, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Learning, Media, and Technology. He has authored eight books including New Directions in Teaching English, Doing Youth Participatory Research, The Art of Critical Pedagogy, Critical Literacy and Urban Youth, and Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Achievement in City Schools, which was awarded Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by Choice Magazine of the American Library Association. He has earned numerous commendations for his university teaching including UCLA’s Department of Education’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Morrell received his BA in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his MA and PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of California, Berkeley where he was the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation award in 2001. Ernest is chair of the Planning and Advisory Committee for the African Diaspora Consortium and he sits on the Executive Boards of LitWorld and the Education for Democracy Institute.