Elise Toedt, PhD

Elise Toedt teaches writing composition and education courses.  Elise interested in how the embodied experiences of teachers in schools can motivate resistance to White supremacist, capitalist and patriarchal institutional norms. She is also interested in the use of collaborative learning and critical creative writing practices in writing composition instruction. Prior to her experience in higher education, Elise taught secondary English for eight years in urban schools in the US and in Java, Indonesia. 

Areas of interest for research and teaching: Critical writing pedagogy, culturally relevant teaching, critical methods of teaching literature and writing, social justice education, feminist theories and research methodologies, social reproduction, poetic inquiry

Some Recent Publications: 

Toedt, E. (2024). Firsthand accounts of U.S. teachers pumping milk at work: A poetic inquiry. International Review of Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231186584 [academic journal]

Toedt, E. (accepted & forthcoming). Making Home: A Book of Poems. Finishing Line Press. [book]

Toedt, E. and Schick, A. (2023). The slippery spaciousness of whiteness: Critical creative writing pedagogy in teacher education. In P. Badenhorst, S.J. Tanner, & J. Grinage (Eds.), Reckoning with the whiteness of English Education: Transformative pedagogies in English Language Arts and beyond. (pp. 133-144). Teachers College Press. [book chapter]

Toedt, E. (2023). Schools eat stories to survive. English Journal, 112(6).https://doi.org/10.58680/ej202332496 [poem in academic journal]