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Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly

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Teacher. researcher. speaker. consultant.

Teacher. researcher. speaker. consultant.Teacher. researcher. speaker. consultant.Teacher. researcher. speaker. consultant.

Books

Kelly, L. L. (2024). Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 grade classroom: A guide to supporting students’ critical development through popular texts. Routledge. 

  

Kelly, L.L. & Graves, D. (Eds.). (2024). The Bloomsbury handbook of Hip Hop pedagogy. Bloomsbury Academic. 

Articles

Kelly, L. L. (2025). That which we have left behind: Developing critical sociohistorical literacies in English education. Research in the Teaching of English 60(1). 


Kelly, L. L., Skillings, S.E., & Osorio, A. (2025). Dreaming beyond the classroom: Exploring youth imagination, civic praxis, and relational pedagogy in schools. Research in the Teaching of English 60(2). 


Kelly, L. L. (2023). “It’s What We’re About”: Youth Epistemologies in the Design of Social and Educational Futures. Equity & Excellence in Education, 1-14.

  

Kelly, L. L. (2023). “What they allow us to learn”: exploring how white English teachers cultivate students’ critical literacies through curriculum and pedagogy. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 22(1), 11-28.


Seider, S., Graves, D., El-Amin, A., Kelly, L., Soutter, M., Clark, S., ... & Tamerat, J. (2023). The development of critical consciousness in adolescents of color attending “opposing” schooling models. Journal of Adolescent Research, 38(1), 3-47.


Mirra, N., Kelly, L. L., & Garcia, A. (2021). Beyond fake news: Culturally relevant media literacies for a fractured civic landscape. Theory Into Practice, 60(4), 340-349.


Kelly, L. L. (2020). “I Love Us for Real”: Exploring Homeplace as a Site of Healing and Resistance for Black Girls in Schools. Equity & Excellence in Education, 53(4), 450-465.

Kelly, L. L. (2020). Exploring Black girls’ subversive literacies as acts of freedom. Journal of Literacy Research 52(4), 456-481. 10.1177/1086296X20966367

Kelly, L. L. (2020) “I am not Jasmine; I am Aladdin”: How youth challenge structural inequity through critical Hip Hop literacies. International Journal of Critical Media Literacy, 1(2), 9-30, 10.1163/25900110-00201002.

Kelly, L.L. (2020), "Listening differently: youth self-actualization through critical Hip Hop literacies", English Teaching: Practice & Critique, https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-08-2019-0106

Graves, D., Kelly, L.L., & McArthur, S. (2020). Introduction: Teaching for critical consciousness

at the intersection of critical media literacy and Hip Hop education. International Journal of Critical Media Literacy, 1(2), 1-8. 10.1163/25900110-00201001

Kelly, L. L. (2019). Building critical classroom community through Hip-Hop literature. English Journal, 109(1), 52-58.

Kelly, L. L., & Sawyer, D. C. (2019). “When keeping it real goes wrong”: Enacting critical pedagogies of Hip-hop in mainstream schools. IASPM Journal, 9(2), 6-21.

Seider, S., Clark, S., Graves, D., Kelly, L. L., Soutter, M., El-Amin, A., & Jennett, P. (2019). Black and Latinx adolescents’ developing beliefs about poverty and associations with their awareness of racism. Developmental psychology, 55(3), 509.

Kelly, L. L. (2018). A snapchat story: how black girls develop strategies for critical resistance in school. Learning, Media and Technology, 1-16.

Seider, S., Kelly, L., Clark, S., Jennett, P., El-Amin, A., Graves, D., ... & Cabral, M. (2018). Fostering the sociopolitical development of African American and Latinx adolescents to analyze and challenge racial and economic inequality. Youth & Society, 0044118X18767783.

Kelly, L. L. (2016). " You don't have to claim her": Reconstructing Black femininity through critical Hip-Hop literacy. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 59(5), 529-538. (Included in Vol. 51 2016 “Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.”)

Kelly, L. L. (2013). Hip-hop literature: The politics, poetics, and power of Hip-hop in the English classroom. English Journal, 102(5), 50-55.

Book Chapters

 Seider, S., El-Amin, A, & Kelly, L. L. (2020). The development of critical consciousness. In L. Arnett Jensen (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Oxford University Press.

Kelly, L.L. (2019). “I Treat This Like My Thesis”: Lessons from a Black Feminist Critical Scholar. In B. Love, V. Evans-Winters, & B. Waters (Eds.), The Lauryn Hill Reader. (New York, NY: Peter Lang).

Kelly, L. L. (2018). In search of power and identity: A Hip-hop autobiography. In C. Emdin & E. Adjapong (Eds.), #HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-hop Education. New Milford, CT: Sense/Brill Publishers.

Book Contributions

Kelly, L.L. (2017).  Digitally documenting oral histories. In L. Christenbury & K. Lindblom, Continuing the journey. Urbana, IL: National Council for Teachers of English.

Encyclopedia Entries

Kelly, L.L. (2023). Hip Hop Education. In L. M. Barker, D. Gorlewski, J. Gorlewski, & C. Miller (Eds.), Encyclopedia of English Language Arts Education (pp. 138-145). Brill.


Kelly, L.L. (2022) Hip Hop Education. In Fisher, D. (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Education. Routledge. 

  

Kelly, L.L. (2018). Hip Hop Based Education Movement. In T. Riggs (Ed.), St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. Detroit, MI: St. James Press.

Blog

Kelly, L.L. (2016). “Potholes in My Lawn ”: Developing Hip-Hop Literacies in Suburban Schools. NCTE Blog. 



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