From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures. One of the first book-length studies of the writer's work, Reading Hilary Mantel explores the importance of ghosts in the full range of her fiction and non-fiction writing and their political, social an...

A 2023 SPE Outstanding Book Honorable MentionTransformative Critical Service-Learning offers hands-on tools for implementing, reflecting on, and assessing critical service-learning in classrooms and community spaces. Answering a need from practitioners for a practical tool for making sense of critical service-learning, the authors introduce the Critical Service-Learning Implementation Model as a way to encourage conversations among stakeholders. Materials ...

This book presents the story of the Critical English Educator Collaborative (CEEC)—a teacher‑guided, informal learning community focused on supporting prospective and practicing English language arts (ELA) teachers’ understandings of critical pedagogy—in order to demonstrate and foster critical pedagogy among ELA teachers.Over the course of one academic year, three ELA teacher educators at a large public university in the southeastern US guided a cohort of novice ELA teachers in mo...