Dominique McDaniel

Dr. Dominique Skye McDaniel (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a concentration in Teacher Education & Development, and cognates in Literacy and English Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2022. Dominique taught for ten years at the K-12 level, most recently in middle grades language arts, and holds active licensure certifications in Elementary Education (K-6), Language Arts (6-9), English (9-12), and Reading (K-12). Dominique’s research spans youths’ digital literacy practices in social media communities, the relationship between adolescents’ social media activism and societal social justice movements, and justice-oriented teacher education in English and Literacy.

Her 2022 dissertation, #OnlineLiteraciesMatter: A multi-case study approach of Black and Brown youths' literacy practices in social media spaces was awarded the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) College Composition and Communication (CCC) 2023 James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Richard A. Meade Award for Research in English Education from English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE), a constituent group of NCTE. Dominique's recent peer-reviewed scholarship can be found in Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research Quarterly, Written Communication, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, English Education, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, English Journal, among other leading journals in the field. She also has published public-facing scholarly work in The Conversation, republished in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Research Interests:

• Adolescents' activism on social media
• Youths’ digital literacy practices in social media communities
• Justice-oriented teacher education in English and Literacy
• Culturally Digitized Pedagogy