Rebecca W. Black Assistant Professor Department of Education email: rwblack@uci.edu phone: 949.824.0592 office: Berkeley Place 2096 http://www.gse.uci.edu/rblack

Rebecca W. Black received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2006. Her research centers on the literacy and socialization practices of adolescents from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds who are writing and participating in online, popular culture-inspired environments. This work includes an explicit focus on the 21st century skills and forms of literacy and learning that youth are engaging with in online spaces. Dr. Black's work has been published in Teachers College Record, Reading Research Quarterly, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and E-learning. Her new book exploring how English language learning youth represent their cultural and linguistic identities through fan fiction texts will be published by Peter Lang in the Spring of 2008.

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