Areas of Expertise
Children & Families, Education, Gender, Human Rights, Race, Identity & Ethnicity
Biography
Latoya M. Teague is a critical Black literacy scholar. Her research contextualizes literature by and about Black people against moments in history that impact Black lives. She approaches her research as a former K-12 educator and a high school librarian whose focused area of interest includes Black storytelling, archival recovery, and foregrounding resistance to understand pursuits of Black liberation. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Black women storytelling and resistance practices.
Latoya M. Teague co-authored a paper titled "Epistolary Labor: Letter Writing Activism," published in the Black History Bulletin as part of a special issue on Black labor.
With their terms ending, five Watson postdoctoral fellows and one postdoctoral research associate look to continue their academic careers armed with new skills acquired in the Watson Institute's unique and robust intellectual environment.