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Scholarship

Book chapters

  • Simon, R., Gallagher, B., Walkland, T., Allen, A. A., Friesen, D., Evis, S., & Kalan, A., with youth from the Addressing Injustices Project: Matthew Burbidge, Nora Farrell, Julian Hetman, Marley Hosang, Talia Morais, Veronica Parks, Emily Raposo, Lucas Sanchez, Rami Simon, Griffin Stewart-Wilson. (2023). “’We can’t ever let this happen again’: Addressing anti-Semitism through arts-based inquiry.” In V. Stead (Ed.), Confronting Anti-Semitism on Campus. New York: Peter Lang.
     

  • Allen, A. A. (In press). “Exploring resistance and acceptance at the threshold of the future: Speculative fiction and our desires.” In K. Gallagher & C. Balt (Eds.) Climate Education and its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way. London: Routledge.

Refereed journal articles

  • Allen, A. A., & Simon, R. (2021). “Unsettling a Canonical Text through Erasure Poetry.” English Journal. 110(5), 43-49.

  • Gallagher, K., Allen, A. A., & Balt, C. (In press). “Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments.” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Refereed conference presentations

  • Allen, A. A. (2024, November 21-24). Teachers powerfully use speculative fiction to center desires. In Sustaining Our Commitments to Social Justice Teacher Education in Community: ELATE Commission on Social Justice Roundtable Conversations. [Roundtable presentation]. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Boston, MA.

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  • Allen, A. A. (2024, November 21-24). Mobilizing Native/ Indigenous YAL to learn about Indigenous land and peoples’ past, present, and future: Finding love in solidary. In Current Conversations About Young Adult Literature in the Classroom. [Roundtable presentation]. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Boston, MA.

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  • Allen, A. A. (2024, June 13-16). Teachers in Community Centre Care: An Exploration of Personal and Pedagogical Entanglements of Desire. In Thoughts on Tangible Transformation: Humanizing Learning Spaces through Arts-Based Collaborative Inquiry. [Symposium presentation]. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (CSSE). Montréal, QC.

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  • Allen, A. A. (2024, April 11-14). Fostering Community and Self Care Practices Through Centring Teacher Desires: Navigating a Pedagogical and Curricular Pivot in Education Post-2020. In Drugs, Poetry, Music, and Care: Illuminating While Reimagining Possibilities Using Collaborative Practitioner Inquiry. [Symposium presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Philadelphia, PA.
     

  • Allen, A. A. (2023, November 29-December 2). Middle and High School Teachers Investigate Care in Community: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications. [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association (LRA). Atlanta, GA.

  • Tinch, K; King, S; Allen, A. A.; Medeiros, J; Lee-Parikh, J; Bass, B; Ashlock, J; & Marroquin, C. (2023, November 16-19) Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Classroom. [Session presentation]. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Columbus, OH. 
     

  • Allen, A. A. (2023, July 6-9). High School Teachers Investigate Care in Their Curriculum and Pedagogy. [Paper presentation]. English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE). Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA.
     

  • Allen, A. A. (2023, July 6-9). The Climate Crisis: A Reimagining of Our Future. [Creative workshop]. English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE). Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA.
     

  • Gallagher, K.; Balt, C.; Cardwell, N.; Tripathi, M.; Allen, A. A.; & Kirsh, C. (2023, February 9-11). Audacious Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Imagining Global Socio-Ecological Justice. [Organized panel]. Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT). University of Toronto; Toronto, ON.  
     

  • Allen, A. A.; Friesen, D. (2022, October 27-29). Remix Workshops: High School Teachers Imagine Different Ways of Being [Paper presentation and Creative workshop]. Universities Art Association of Canada/ l’Association d’Art des Universités du Canada (UAAC/ AAUC). Toronto, ON.  
     

  • Gallagher, K.; Balt, C.; Cardwell, N.; Tripathi, M.; Allen, A. A.; & Kirsh, C. (2022, June 24-26). A Land Acknowledgement for the Future: Storytelling, Desire, Ecologies [Organized panel]. Children, Youth and Performance Conference at Young People’s Theatre. (Virtual conference).
     

  • Allen, A. A.; Friesen, D. (2022, May 26-29). Remix workshops: A community of high school teachers listen and write their way to intentional presence and dream potential futures [Paper presentation]. Horizons: Crisis and Social Transformation in Community-Engaged Research. Simon Fraser University; Vancouver, BC.
     

  • Gallagher, B; Allen, A. A. (2022, May 14-20). Inquiring into the Possibilities of Creative Writing with Teachers in Community [Paper presentation]. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (CSSE). (Virtual conference).
     

  • Simon, R.; Gallagher, B.; Allen, A. A.; Owis, B.; Walkland, T.; Friesen, D.; & Cavanaugh, L. (2021, December 1-4). Contrapuntal Perspectives and Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Literacy Research: Reflections from Participants in a Multiyear Participatory Research Project [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association (LRA). Atlanta, GA.
     

  • Simon, R.; Gallagher, B.; Allen, A. A.; Owis, B.; Walkland, T.; & Friesen, D. (2021, April 8-12). Reflecting on Ethical Considerations and Methodological Dilemmas Within a Multi-Year Participatory Action Research Project [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA). (Virtual conference).
     

  • Gallagher, B.; Allen, A. (2020, November 19-22). Collaborative Poetry Workshops at the Toronto Writing Project [Paper presentation]. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention (NCTE). Denver, CO. (Virtual conference).
     

  • Allen, A. & Simon, R. (2020, April 17-21). Investigating Censorship and Creative Resistance Through Writing Poetry [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA). San Francisco, CA. (Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19).
     

  • Gallagher, B.; Allen, A. (2020, February 21-22). The Toronto Writing Project: Collaborative Creative Writing with Educators [Paper presentation]. Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Center for Urban Ethnography at University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education; Philadelphia, PA.
     

  • Simon, R.; Walkland, T.; Gallagher, B.; Allen, A.; Friesen, D; Appleman, D.; & Ghiso, M. (2020, February 21-22). Addressing Injustices Through Collaborative Inquiry: Reflections on Working Together to Read the Word and Remake the World [Symposium presentation]. Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Center for Urban Ethnography at University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education; Philadelphia, PA. 
     

  • Simon, R.; Walkland, T.; Allen, A.; Gallagher, B.; Friesen, D. (2019, December 4-7). (Re)storying Canonical Texts: Youths’ Critical Art-Making Practices and Productively Disruptive Interpretations of Fahrenheit 451 [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association (LRA). Tampa, FL.
     

  • Simon, R.; Evis, S.; Walkland, T.; Gallagher, B.; Allen, A.; Friesen, D.; with 19 youth from the Addressing Injustices Project (2019, April 5-9). Free 451: Collaborative Teacher Research through Arts-Based Inquiry [Session presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Toronto, ON.

Web-based publications

  • Allen, A. A. (2020, November 12). Remix poetry. Addressing Injustices. 

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