Dr. Ernest Morrell

Dr. Ernest Morrell is Associate Dean of Humanities in the College of Arts and Letters, Coyle Professor of Literacy Education, Professor of English and Africana Studies, and the Director of the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a past-president of the National Council of Teachers of English. Ernest is the recipient of the NCTE Distinguished Service Award, the Kent Williamson Leadership Award from the Conference for English Leadership, and the Divergent Award for 21st Century Literacies. He is also the Director of Teachers College’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). Prior to this, Dr. Morrell was an award-winning high school English teacher in Northern California, and he continues to work with teachers, schools and adolescents across the country to infuse multicultural literature, youth popular culture and media production into standards-based literacy curricula and after school programs. Dr. Morrell received his Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture from the University of California at Berkeley where he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award. He is an award-winning published author of ten books, and his books include Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Achievement in City Schools and New Directions in Teaching English. He has also co-authored books with Pam Allyn, including Every Child a Super Reader: 7 Strengths for a Lifetime of Independence.