Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Ph.D.

Contact

ahendrix4@twu.edu
940-898-2215
MCL 901C

Biography

Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literacy and Learning at Texas Woman’s University. Throughout her 20 years within education, she has worked in secondary ELA classrooms and as a literacy teacher educator. As a teacher educator, she prepares preservice and in-service teachers to view their students through appreciative lenses, to understand sociocultural and critical perspectives of literacy, and enact transformative pedagogies in their practice. Her research focuses on adolescent literacy and transforming literacy classrooms toward justice. She examines youth critical literacies, pedagogies for engaging critical literacies in classrooms, and teacher preparation for critical literacy instruction. Her work has been presented at the annual conferences of the Literacy Research Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the American Educational Research Association. This research has appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as English Journal, Teaching Education, and Qualitative Inquiry.

Education

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
M.A., English, The University of North Texas
B.A., Literature, The University of North Texas

Expertise

Adolescent Literacy; Digital Literacy; Young Adult Literature; Critical Literacy; Youth Participatory Action Research; Teacher Action Research; Qualitative Research

Latest Articles

The Urgent Need for Humanizing Spaces in Schools
Multicultural Perspectives (2023)
Aimee Hendrix, Kira LeeKeenan

Empowering Latinx youth through culturally relevant pedagogy: A call to action
English in Texas (2023)
Esmeralda Cartegena Collazo, Aimee Hendrix

Critical Approaches to Media Literacy Education in a Post-Truth World.
Journal of Language and Literacy Education (2023)
Aimee Hendrix, Nash Brady

Activating joy and hope in critical literacies instruction: Responding pedagogically to youth skepticism in a YPAR project
Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (2021)
Aimee Hendrix

Reading school: Critical literacies of the Youth Equity Agents
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2021)
Aimee Hendrix

Staying With the Trouble: Grapplings With the More-Than-Human in a Qualitative Inquiry Course
Qualitative Inquiry (2020)
Fikile Nxumalo, Courtney Cook, Jessica Rubin, Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Stacia Cedillo

A review of critical literacies in preservice teacher education: pedagogies, shifts, and barriers
Teaching Education (2019)
Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Melissa Mosley Wetzel

Transforming Literacy Education in Urban Schools
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2017)
Allison Skerrett, Thea Williamson, Kira LeeKeenan, Jessica Rubin, Charlotte Land

Moving English classrooms toward critical possibilities
English Journal (2016)
Aimee Hendrix-Soto

Chapters

Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Amplifying youth critical consciousness in classrooms
in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Socially Just Literacy Teaching Practices | Teachers College Press (2022)
Aimee Hendrix, Erica Holyoke, Heather Dunham, Melissa Mosley Wetzel

Recent Presentations

Meet the Editors: English Journal
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) (2023)
Round Table | Amy Burke, Mandy Stewart, Aimee Hendrix

Connections that Sustain Us: Supporting Transformative Literacy Teacher Education through a First-Year Mentoring Program.
National Council for Teachers of English (2023)
Paper | Aimee Hendrix, Salazar Christina

Meet the Editors: English Journal
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) (2022)
Round Table | Amy Burke, Mandy Stewart, Aimee Hendrix

Freedom, Friendship, and Joy in Critical Literacies
Literacy Research Association (2022)
Round Table | Aimee Hendrix

Critical Literacies as Homeplace
NCTE Homecoming/ELATE (2022)
Paper | Aimee Hendrix

Critical Media Literacy Education in a Complex and Shifting Information Terrain
NCTE Homecoming/ELATE (2022)
Symposium | Aimee Hendrix, Brady L. Nash, Ben Lathrop

Children's, Middle Grades, and Young Adult Literature for Anti-Oppressive Teaching: Trends and Issues
Literacy Research Association (2021)
Paper | Aimee Hendrix

The Confluence of YA and Digital Texts for Engaging Diverse Perspectives
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) (2020)
Symposium Paper | Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Briana Asmus, Amy Piotrowski

Professional Affiliations

• Literacy Research Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Texas Council of Teachers of English

Honors & Awards

• ORSP Travel Assistance Award, Texas Woman's University (2023)
• COPE Outstander Faculty Teacher Award, Texas Woman's University (2022)