Meghan Gilbert

Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in English from St. John’s University, as well as MAs in Communication, English, and Disability Studies. Her recent book- and article-length publications focus on intersectionality and advocacy in the composition classroom, contemporary popular culture, and fiction. She is the co-editor of Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s Edited Book Award, and two special issues of South Central Review, “#MeToo, Moving Forward” and “Feminist Detection in Contemporary Literature, Media, and Culture,” her contribution to the latter of which was awarded a Popular Culture Association Earl Bargannier Award.  Her next book, Composing an Inclusive Academy (forthcoming from WAC Clearinghouse), is about culturally responsive pedagogy, anti-racism, and linguistic justice in the Composition classroom and beyond, a version of which she has presented in spaces across the nation, including CUNY’s renowned Teaching Matters series and the nationally recognized Gardner Institute’s Symposium on Transforming the Post-Secondary Experience. She is a 2024-2027 Gardner Institute Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, a 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, and a 2022 recipient of the American Association of Community Colleges’ Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition. She is also a Senior Research Fellow focusing on innovation in academia with the Gardner Institute.