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b'David E. Kirkland is a trans-disciplinary scholar of English and urban education, who explores the intersections among urban youth culture, language and literacy, urban teacher preparation, and digital media. He analyzes culture, language, and texts, and has expertise in critical literary, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research methods.
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\\nHe has received many awards for his work, including the 2008 AERA Division G Outstanding Dissertation Award and was a 2009-10 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and is a former fellow of NCTE\\u2019s Cultivating New Voices. Dr. Kirkland has published widely. His most recent articles include: \\u201d Black Skin, White Masks\\u2019: Normalizing Whiteness and the Trouble with the Achievement Gap\\u201d in urban contexts: Politics, Pluralism, and Possibilities\\u201d (English Education), and \\u201cWe real cool: Examining Black males and literacy\\u201d (Reading Research Quarterly). He is currently completing his fourth book, A Search Past Silence, to be published through Teacher College Press s Language and Literacy Series. Dr. Kirkland believes that, in their language and literacies, youth take on new meanings beginning with a voice and verb, where words when spoken or written have the power to transform the world inside-out
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