Assistant Professor
Room: 560 COE
Phone: (404) 413-8020
Email: tholbrook@gsu.edu
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3978
Atlanta, GA. 30302-3980
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Bio
Teri Holbrook is an assistant professor of literacy and language arts in the Department of Early Childhood Education. She works with preservice and inservice teachers and with K-12th grade students in the areas of writing and digital composition. Her research interests include multimodal and digital composition, teacher development, and arts-based research methods. As a teacher, author, artist, and literacy scholar, Dr. Holbrook’s work spans education, the humanities, and the arts. Her scholarly work has been published in a number of academic journals, including Qualitative Inquiry, Reflective Practice, Children’s Literature in Education, and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. She has presented papers at over 40 academic conferences and given keynote speeches at both academic and literary settings. Her literary work includes four novels published by Bantam Books (Kindle e-book versions by Random House Digital), short stories published by Avon Books and Boulevard Books, and a co-authored hypermedia novel that was an early experiment in multi-platform narrative. Her fiction has been short-listed for several awards, including the Edgar Award, the Agatha Award, and the Townsend Prize.