Greg Bartley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education
Department of Teaching and Learning

Office: 490F Pawley Hall
E-mail: [email protected]

Research Interests

Informed by my previous work as a high school English teacher, my main area of research focuses on understanding students’ perceptions of and experiences in suburban, social justice-oriented secondary English classrooms. Specifically, I examine how secondary students use and think about literacy in response to theories of literacy and curriculum in everyday, suburban high school English classrooms. 

As a teacher educator across K–12 programs, I also study how novice teachers develop their professional and political identities over time and space, and how their identity development supports or constrains their commitment to interrupting inequitable schooling practices, spaces, institutions and systems.

Recent Publications

• Bartley, G. (in press). “The targetedness against me right now is so insane”: When Being a Worthy Witness Isn’t Enough. English Education.
• Bartley, G., Ligocki, D., Martin, R.A., & Scott, C. (2025). Promoting Educative Antiracism Dialogue and Activism Through Community Engagement. The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 17(2), 124–131.
• Bartley, G. (in press). (Re)Storying. In A. Cortez, J. R. Lizárraga, & I. Ortiz-Gonzalez (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education: Literacy, Youth, and Culture. Bloomsbury Press. 

Courses Taught

• EED 3100 – Teaching for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• EED 3600 – Seminar I: The Productive Classroom
• EED 3650 – Seminar II: Culturally Responsive Teaching
• EED 4600 – Seminar III: Reflecting on Practice
• EED 4650 – Seminar IV: Internship
• SED 5100 – Teaching for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Secondary Schools

Education

• University of Wisconsin – Madison: Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Literacy Studies (2021)
• Wake Forest University: M.A.Ed. in English Education (2011)
• Miami University: B.S. in Integrated Secondary Language Arts Education (2006)