Amy Burke

Contact

aburke6@twu.edu
940-898-2234
MLC 901-A

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Biography

Amy Burke is co-division head and associate professor in the Division of Literacy and Language, where she teaches undergraduate literacy courses for preservice teachers, as well as in the Literacy Education master's program, and the Literacy, Language, and Culture PhD program. Her research and teaching interests include the social-cultural-historic-political contexts of language and literacy teaching/learning; children’s and young adult literature; multimodal composing; critical literacy; and the role of talk in literacy learning. She presents her work regularly at the annual conferences of the Literacy Research Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the American Educational Research Association. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Children's Literature, Language Arts, Literacy Research and Instruction, and English in Texas. She is a co-editor of NCTE's English Journal. Prior to working in academia, she taught Kindergarten, first, and third grade.

Education

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction (Area of Emphasis: Language and Literacy Studies), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
M.Ed., Reading Education, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
M.A., Teaching (Secondary Education), Austin College, Sherman, Texas
B.A., English, Austin College, Sherman, Texas

Research Interests

Discourse; Sociocultural Theory and Literacy Practices; Critical Literacy; Literacy and Identity; Social Semiotics and Multimodal Composing; Qualitative Research

Latest Articles

Adoption as Liminal Space: Representations in Children's Picturebooks
Journal of Children's Literature (2023)
A Burke, M Zoch

Team-Based Learning: Null Results in an Introductory University Nutrition Course
College Teaching (2021)
Kathleen Davis, Amy Burke

Teachers Negotiating Literacy Instruction Within Accountability Systems
Fringes (2020)
Amy Burke, Melody Zoch

Teaching Goldilocks to read: Too much, too little, or just right the amount of phonics?
English in Texas (2020)
Ann D. David, Annamary Consalvo, Amy Burke, Stephanie Grote-Garcia, Peggy Semingson

Strategies to engage students in writing to think
The Teaching Professor (2018)
Amy Burke

An analysis of a teacher's use of revoicing during a third grade literature discussion
Literacy Research and Instruction (2017)
Amy Burke

Chapters

Shared responsibility: Looking at literacy beyond the English language arts classroom
in Instructional leadership in the content areas: Case studies for curriculum and instruction | Routledge (2018)
S. Wilcox, P. A. Watson, A. Burke, C. Briggs

Supporting change through knowledge of best practices in literacy
in Instructional leadership in the content areas: Case studies for curriculum and instruction | Routledge (2018)
M. Kerbs, C. Briggs, A. Burke, P. A. Watson

Literacy instruction that fosters agency and engagement in middle school classrooms
in Instructional leadership in the content areas: Case studies for curriculum and instruction | Routledge (2018)
A. Burke, H. Cato, T. Dollar, C. Briggs, P. A. Watson

Internally Funded Projects

Travel Grant
TWU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs | $1,000.00 | 2023
Research Grant

Small Grants Program
TWU Office of Research and Sponsored Progrms | $750.00 | 2021
Research Grant

Multimodal Community Literacy Project
TWU Undergraduate Experimental Scholar Program | $500.00 | 2017
Research Grant

Multimodal Community Literacy Project
TWU Undergraduate Experimental Scholar Program | $500.00 | 2017
Research Grant

Multimodal Community Literacy Project
TWU College of Professional Education Research Support Grant) | $1,500.00 | 2016
Research Grant

Professional Affiliations

• American Educational Research Association
• Children's Literature Assembly
• Children's Literature Assocation
• International Reading Association
• Literacy Research Association
• Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• National Writing Project
• Texas Association of Literacy Educators
• Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts