Julia A. Lynch
Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction, UNCW
MAEd. Reading Education, ECU
BS. Elementary Education, ECU
Research Interests
Julia Lynch is a visiting assistant professor who earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of North Carolina Wilmington, her MAEd in Reading Education, and her BS in Elementary Education from East Carolina University. As a public educator, Julia’s tenure was focused primarily on under-resourced rural schools that served Black, Latiné, Indigenous, and multilingual communities. Julia’s interests are guided by a focus on teacher identity development and arts-based inquiry as a teaching practice within a rural context. She operates primarily from a BlackMothering epistemology with a critical sociocultural framework to engage in education that promotes equity and social justice in rural education teaching and learning. Using culturally responsive pedagogy as a foundation, Julia’s teaching/scholarship allows students to construct, perform, and assess their knowledge as they engage in critical reflection that challenges them to (re)imagine equitable teaching that may counter their cultural identity and interrogate race and racism.
As a Black poet scholar, she also engages in arts-based qualitative research that attempts to center the lives and experiences of other multiplied-marginalized scholars while also disrupting normative research that doesn’t honor the authenticity of the researcher or culturally sustain the community of participants.