Professional Background
Assistant Professor of English Education
Educational Background
B.A., New York University; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University
Scholarly Interests
Critical English Education. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Urban teacher education. Educational trajectories of African American adult reenty women. Achievement gaps.
Selected Publications
Sealey-Ruiz, Y., Noguera, P.A. & N. Handville. (2008). In Pursuit of the Possible: The Efforts of Suburban Districts to Close the Achievement Gap. The Sophist’s Bane: Society of Professors of Education. Vol. 4, 1 & 2 pp. 31-41.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2007). Wrapping the Curriculum Around Their Lives: Using a Culturally Responsive Curriculum with African American Female Adults. Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 58 No.1, November, pp. 44-60.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2007). Rising Above Reality: The Voices of Reentry Black Mothers and Their Daughters. Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 76 No. 2, Spring, 2007. pp.141-153.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2006). Getting to Here From There: One Woman’s Journey from the South Bronx to the Academy. WILLA Journal, National Council of Teachers of English, Vol. XIV, pp. 40-42.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2005). Spoken Soul: The Language of Black Imagination and Reality. Kappa Delta Pi’s Educational Forum, Vol 69, No. 3, pp. 37-46.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2004). Tasting Memories: Food Voice in the Classroom: A collection of teaching tools. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 1 (1), spring, J. Deutsch and A.H. Lawson (Eds.), pp. 131-134.
Miller, J.P., J. Deutsch, & Y. Sealey-Ruiz. (2003). Advancing Multicultural Education in Hospitality Education Through the Use of Food Studies Curricula. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, Volume 16, No. 4, pp. 45-51.
Refereed Book Chapters
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2010). Reading, Writing and Racism: Developing racial literacy in the adult education English classroom. In It’s About Race: A Dialogue Among Adult Educators. V. Sheared, S. Brookfield, S. Colin, III, J. Johnson-Bailey, & E. Peterson (eds). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Greene, P. & Y. Sealey-Ruiz. (2008). Teaching Race: Making the Invisible Concrete. In The Problem of the Colorblind: College Teachers Talk About the Fears, Risks, and Rewards of Teaching Race in 21st Century America. L. Guerrero (ed.). New York: McMillan Palgrave.
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Assistant Professor of English Education
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