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Mollie Blackburn

Mollie Blackburn

Mollie Blackburn

Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology

blackburn.99@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Literacy, language, and social change
  • LGBTQ in education

Education

  • PhD, Reading/Writing/Literacy, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
  • MEd, Language Education, College of Education, University of Georgia, 1996
  • BA, English and Education, Westhampton College, University of Richmond, 1991
Mollie Blackburn is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on literacy, language, and social change, with particular attention to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and the teachers who serve them.
 
She has published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, and Teachers College Record, among others. She is the author of Interrupting Hate: Homophobia in Schools and what Literacy Can Do About It and the co-editor of Acting Out!: Combating Homophobia through Teacher Activism, which received the Phillip C. Chinn Book Award, the Richard A. Meade Award, and the American Library Association’s CHOICE Book Award.
 
She has received WILLA’s (Women in Life and Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English) Inglis Award for her work in the areas of gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, and young people; the Queer Studies special interest group of the American Educational Research Association’s award for a body of work; and the Alan C. Purves Award for an article in the Research in the Teaching of English deemed rich with implications for classroom practice.