GCTE Conference

T. Hunter Strickland, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Reading, Literacy and Language at Georgia College & State University. He received his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education with a focus on English Education at the University of Georgia where he studied the young adult literature methods course in secondary English teacher education programs across the United States. His teaching at GCSU focuses on adolescent literacy including secondary content area literacy, and English education. Through his understanding of young adult literature pedagogy, he believes that the best literacy teachers of any grade level are teachers who foster their own identities as readers and writers. His research interests are in young adult literature methods and pedagogy within secondary English teacher preparation programs and adolescent literacy.