Deborah Bieler

Deborah Bieler is an assistant professor and the coordinator of English Education field placements at the University of Delaware.  She has an extensive background in both secondary and post-secondary education that includes teaching public high school English, directing a college writing center, and mentoring student-teachers.  The college-level courses she has taught include first-year composition, writing center theory and practice, curriculum and pedagogy, social science literature review writing, English methods, and student-teaching seminars.  Dr. Bieler’s current research agenda works toward the building of an agentic, activist teaching profession in which students and teachers – across traditional boundaries of age, experience, and institution – support one another in learning communities and engage together in transformative practice, particularly among underserved student populations.  Her current projects explore student-teacher/teacher educator relationships, teacher agency, and teachers’ and students’ work toward social justice within and beyond their classrooms.  Dr. Bieler holds a B.A. in English Education and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum from PennGSE.  She can be reached at deb@udel.edu.