Public Scholarship Interview with Deborah Appleman

Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies at Carleton College. Professor Appleman’s recent research has focused on teaching college-level language a literature courses, and creative writing courses at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater and the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault for incarcerated men who are interested in pursuing post-secondary education. Professor Appleman taught high school English for nine years before receiving her doctorate from the University of Minnesota. She was also a visiting professor at Syracuse University and at the University of California, Berkeley. A specialist in literacy education, she is the author of several books on teaching, including Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Lifelong Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs; Teaching Literature to Adolescents; Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents: Braided Lives An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing(coeditor), Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading; Reading Better, Reading Smarter: Designing Literature lessons for Adolescents (co-authored with Michael Graves); School, Not Jail: How Educators Can Disrupt School Pushout and Mass Incarceration (co-edited with Peter Williamson); Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison and, most recently, Literature and the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture and the Teacher’s Dilemma. To learn more about Deborah's thoughts and implementation of Public Scholarship, check out this interview!