Associate Professor
Dr. Christopher J. Wagner studies literacy, identities, and multilingual learners. In his work he takes up the stance that working across boundaries, both theoretical and those in the world, can inform and extend understandings of children's reading, writing, and learning. He aims to disrupt narrow conceptions of how children engage in and make sense of language and literacy in favor of more holistic and child-centered approaches to learning.
In his research he has often developed collaborative partnerships with multilingual communities and families, including as co-teachers and co-researchers. He has published in a range of academic and practitioner publications, and has a recently released book titled Identity-Based Literacy Instruction for Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms. Christopher previously was on the faculty of the City University of New York.
He received a B.A from the University of Virginia, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from Boston College. Christopher teaches courses on elementary reading and literacy.
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