Education

Ph.D., Education, The Ohio State University

M.A., Education, The Ohio State University

M.A., African American & African Studies, The Ohio State University

B.S., Biochemistry, Xavier University of Louisiana

Research & Teaching  Interests

Black Girlhood and Southern Knowledge
Community engagements as responsive and responsible

Creative and Artistic Youth Activism

Kinloch, V., Nemeth, E. Butler, T. & Player, G. (2021) Where is the Justice? Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities. Teachers College Press.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Disruption at the Edges: Ecotone Crossing with Black and Indigenous Creative Pedagogues,” Curriculum inquiry, 52 (2), 205-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2022.2041979

Player, G.D., Ybarra, M.G., Brochin, C., Brown, R.N., Butler, T.T., Cervantes-Soon, C., Gill, V.S., Kinloch, V., Price-Dennis, D., Saavedra, C.M., Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2021). “We Are Our Only Way Forward”: Dialogic Re-imaginings and the Cultivation of Homeplace for Girls, Women, and Femmes of Color. Urban Education, 1-21. https://doi-org.nuncio.cofc.edu/10.1177/00420859211003931

"Black Girl Cartography: Black Girlhood and Place-Making in Education." Review of Research in Education, 42(1), 28-45, doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18762114

“We need a song”: Sustaining Critical Youth Organizing Literacies through World Humanities. Equity and Excellence in Education, 50(1), 84-95. doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2016.1250233

#Say[ing]HerName as critical demand: English Education in the age of erasure. English Education, 49(2), 153-178. (Full issue: http://www.ncte.org/journals/ee/issues/v49-2)

Baker-Bell, A., Butler, T., & Johnson, L. (Guest editors, 2017). Editorial—The pain and the wounds: A call for critical race English Education in the wake of racial violence. English Education, 49(2), 116-129. (Full issue: http://www.ncte.org/journals/ee/issues/v49-2)

“Stories behind their hands”: The creative and collective “actionist” work of girls of color.  English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 15(3), 313-332. doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-01-2016-0015

Reed, P., & Butler, T. (2015). Flipping the Script: When Service Learning Recipients Become Service Learning Givers. Theory into Practice, 54(1), 55-62. doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2015.977663