Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, Curriculum and Instruction
Recent Publications
Willis, A. I. (2026). Foreword. In C. Finkbeiner, R. Zaidi, & B. Buch (Eds.), Redirecting the Flow of Knowledge Across Languages and Cultures: Autobiographical Teaching and Literacy Pedagogies (pp. xi-xii). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80686-047-020261017
Smith, P., Patterson, D., & Willis, A. (2025). Complicating Postcolonial Logics: Toward Transraciolinguistic Justice in Literacy Instruction. In M. Sailors, I. Nuñez, V. W. M. Watson, J. V. Hoffman, & D. E. Alvermann (Eds.), Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy (8 ed., pp. 4-25). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003492269-2
Waldron, C. H., Willis, A., Tatum, A., Salas, R. G., Coleman, J. J., Croom, M., Deroo, M. R., Hikida, M., Machado, E., Smith, P., & Zaidi, R. (2023). Reimagining LRA in the Spirit of a Transcendent Approach to Literacy. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 72(1), 50-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377231183735
Willis, A. I. (2023). Anti-Black Literacy Laws and Policies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296188
Willis, A. I. (2023). Critical literacies: Ever-evolving. Literacy, 57(2), 198-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12331