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Stephanie R. Toliver (S.R. Toliver) is an assistant professor of Literacy and Secondary Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She earned her PhD in Language and Literacy Education as well as a graduate certificate in diversity, equity, and inclusion from the University of Georgia, and was a 2019 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow.

Informed by her love of science fiction and fantasy texts as well as her experience as a 9th and 10th grade English teacher, Toliver’s scholarship centers the freedom dreams of Black youth and honors the historical legacy that
Black imaginations have had and will have on activism and social change. Specifically, she
focuses on representations of and responses to Black youth in speculative fiction texts ...more

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