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Deborah Appleman

Associate Program Director of American Studies
Chair of Educational Studies, Educational Studies
Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies, Educational Studies

Education & Professional History

University of Minnesota, MA; PhD


At Carleton since 1986.

Highlights & Recent Activity

Recent Conferences:

“Fighting Fake News: Building Bridges to Digital Literacy” Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin February 9, 2024

Writing Workshop, Cornell Prison Education Program, Cayuga Correctional Facility October 15-17, 2023

Recent Invited talks:

Literature and the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture and Troubling Texts in Troubling Times” California Association of Teachers of English Conference, March 1-3, Los Angeles, CA

Words No Bars Can Hold: Rewriting the Narratives of the Incarcerated through Literacy Education. Cornell University, October 16, 2023

“Culture Wars in the Classroom: Triggers, Cancel Culture and Troubling Texts in Troubling Times” AAUW, October 9, 2023, Minneapolis, MN

Inservices:

Teaching English Language Arts-6 workshops for the Bloomington Minnesota School district-October 2023 through April 2024

Writing Workshop, Cornell Prison Education Program, Cayuga Correctional Facility October 15-17, 2023

Decolonizing the High School Curriculum, Henry High School, Minneapolis, MN November 9, 2021

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

National Council of Teachers of English

American Educational Research Association

Education Minnesota

Save the Kids

Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop

Minnesota Association of Colleges of Teacher Education

American Studies Association

Rethinking Schools

Minnesota Council of Teachers of English

Current Courses

  • Fall 2024
    EDUC 234: Educational Psychology
  • Winter 2025
    EDUC 391: Independent Study
  • Spring 2025
    EDUC 291: Independent Study
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    EDUC 385: Schooling and Communities: A Practicum for Teacher Candidates
  •  
    EDUC 391: Independent Study
  •  
    EDUC 395: Senior Seminar
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