Nicole Mirra
Assistant Professor of Urban Teacher Education, Rutgers University
About Me
Nicole Mirra is an assistant professor of urban teacher education in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She previously taught high school English Language Arts in Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California. Her research explores the intersections of critical literacy and civic engagement with youth and teachers across classroom, community, and digital learning environments. Central to her research and teaching agenda is a commitment to honoring and amplifying the literacy practices and linguistic resources that students from minoritized communities use to challenge and re-imagine civic life. Her most recent book is Educating for Empathy: Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement (Teachers College Press, 2018) and she is a co-author (with Antero Garcia and Ernest Morrell) of Doing Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Inquiry with Researchers, Educators, and Students (Routledge, 2015).
participatory action research, speculative civic literacies, social design-based experimentation
More Information:
Twitter handle: @Nicole_Mirra
Building Critical Civic Empathy across Time and Space: Fostering Digital Democratic Dialogue with the 3D Project
Selected Publications & Projects
Mirra, N. & Garcia, A. (2020). I hesitate but I do have hope: Youth speculative civic literacies for troubled times. Harvard Educational Review, 90(2), 295-321.
Mirra, N. & Debate Liberation League. (2020). Without borders: Youth debaters re-imagining the nature and purpose of public dialogue. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 19(3), 253-267.
Mirra, N., Coffey, J., & Englander, A. (2018). Warrior scholars and bridge builders: Civic dreaming in ELA classrooms. Journal of Literacy Research, 50(4), 423-445.
Mirra, N. & Garcia, A. (2017). Civic participation re-imagined: Youth interrogation and innovation in the multimodal public sphere. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 136-158.