Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Jacqueline Filipek is an Associate Professor at The King's University in Edmonton, Alberta. She teaches literacy and language arts curriculum courses as well as educational technologies. Her research interests include digital and transliteracies in elementary contexts. She received her PhD in language and literacy from the University of Alberta.
Associate Editors
Dr. Xiaoxiao Du is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. She holds an MA, an MEd, a PhD in language and literacy from Western University. She is the past president of Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada and has taught different age groups in public and private settings in Canada and beyond. Her research areas include multiliteracies, multimodal meaning making, multilingual and multicultural literacy practices, identity construction, and literacies across different domains.
Dr. Meridith Lovell-Johnston is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University’s Orillia Campus. Meridith graduated with her PhD in language and literacy from the University of Alberta in 2014. Her research areas include reading pedagogy and assessment and the integration of technology into teaching. Her most recent projects investigate the implementation of literacy and inquiry practices within the Full-Day Kindergarten model in Ontario and the development of self-regulation and literacy capacity amongst Indigenous children in Northern Ontario.
Dr. Zheng Zhang, PhD, is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (zzhan58@uwo.ca). Her research interests include curriculum studies of transnational education, literacy and biliteracy curriculum, internationalization of curriculum, multimodal literacy, cross-border teacher education undergirded by new media literacies, and multiliteracies pedagogy in culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. These primary research areas have addressed pertinent educational challenges in the era of changes with increasing cultural and linguistic diversity, rapid global connectivity, and fast-paced technological changes.
Editorial Assistant
Samantha Browne, Editorial Assistant, Language and Literacy, Lakehead University (Orillia), Canada
English Copyeditor
Lara Polak, University of Alberta, Canada
Miana Whitfield, Lakehead University, Canada
Allison Gardiner, Lakehead University, Canada
French Copyeditor
Miana Whitfield, Lakehead University, Canada
