Lisa Domke

Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education (specializations in literacy and language learners), Michigan State University
M.Ed. in Literacy Studies (Kindergarten-12th grade Reading Specialist), Grand Valley State University
B.A. in English/Language Arts and Elementary Education, Grand Valley State University

Biliteracy
Literacy education
Dual language bilingual education
Disciplinary literacy
Children’s literature

Lisa Domke is an assistant professor of language and (bi)literacy education in the College of Education & Human Development’s Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education. Previously, she worked in a summer migrant education program, as a general elementary teacher and as an elementary Spanish immersion/dual language teacher. Her research interests center around biliteracy—specifically, how elementary children read in multiple languages. Within that, she studies the multilingual texts children read and contexts for biliteracy development like dual language bilingual education (including teacher preparation, pedagogy and curriculum in these spaces). She also has interests in disciplinary literacy with a focus on multilinguals and multilingual children’s literature.

Lisa Domke’s work has been published in a variety of journals including those focusing on literacy (e.g., Journal of Literacy Research and The Reading Teacher), linguistics (e.g., Applied Linguistics), multilingualism (e.g., Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development), and bilingual/language education (e.g., Bilingual Research Journal and Foreign Language Annals).