About me
Jennifer D. Turner is an educator, literacy advocate, and critical visual scholar. She is Associate Professor in Reading Education at the University of Maryland College Park, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Visual Literacies at San Diego State University. Her scholarship illuminates Black youths’ imaginings of personal and collective futures through their multimodal artmaking, including drawings, digital collage, photography, and most recently, movement and dance performance. Her visual projects have been funded by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Research Foundation and by the William T. Grant Foundation Writing Fellowship. In 2022, Jennifer, Marva Cappello and Angela Wiseman co-convened a conference on critical visual and multimodal methods for racial justice supported by an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Education Conference Grant.