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Published on: 9/1/2000
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Arlette Ingram Willis
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We are both African-American females and certified teachers; the first author (Willis) is a professor at a university near the high school, and the second author (Johnson) is a doctoral student and research assistant.
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Arlette Ingram Willis is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses.Her research interests include the history of reading research in the United States, sociohistorical foundations of literacy, reader response, sociocultural contexts of literacy learning, and teaching and learning multicultural literature in Grades 6 to 12.She is the editor of Teaching and Using Multicultural Literature in Grades 9-12: Moving Beyond the Canon and Hemlock in the Furrows: A Critique of Reading Comprehension Research and Testing (in press) and a coeditor of Multiple and Intersecting Identities in Qualitative Research (with Betty Merchant) and Multicultural Issues in Literacy Research and Practice (with Georgia Garcia, Violet Harris, and Rosalinda Barrera).She has also published numerous book chapters and journal articles in the areas of preservice teacher education, reader response, and multicultural literature.Reach her by e-mail at aiwillis@uiuc.edu.
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Citation: Willis, A.I., & Johnson, J.L. (2000, September).