About Mary Amanda Stewart Books
Mary Amanda (Mandy) Stewart is a professor at Texas Woman's University in the Division of Language and Literacy. She is passionate about the bilingual and additional language literacy development of multilingual children and adolescents, focusing on the intersection of critical literacy and language research. Recently she has partnered with teachers in the US, Costa Rica, Poland, and Greece to support multilingual students and regularly enters classrooms to try out teaching ideas herself. In addition to articles in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Language Policy, and Journal of Language, Identity & Education, she has also authored or edited seven books that focus on language and literacy. Among these are the practitioner-focused But Does This Work with English Learners? A Guide for English Language Arts Teachers, Grades 6-12 as well as the critical research book Radicalizing Literacies and Languaging: A Framework toward Dismantling the Mono-Mainstream Assumption. Additionally, Stewart is coeditor of English Journal and is affiliate professor of research at DSW University of Lower Silesia in Poland, where she supports teachers of refugee students.
