Christopher Parsons

Chris Parsons is an Associate Professor of English Education and the Coordinator of Secondary English Education. He teaches courses on the methods of teaching English in secondary schools, English grammar, secondary education, and field instruction for teacher candidates.

Chris earned his Ph.D in 2017 from the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan, where his dissertation, Ideologies about Gender and Literacy in the Academic Lives of Young Men, won a Dimond Best Dissertation award. His current research focuses on ideologies about masculinity and literacy in secondary English classrooms as well as on the theory and practice of field instruction in secondary English teacher education. His recent scholarship has been published in the the journals English Education and Pedagogy as well as in the edited collection, Methods into Practice: New Visions in Teaching the English Language Arts Methods Course.

In a warmer past life, Chris taught high school English for five years in North Las Vegas, NV.