Katharine Covino

Katharine Covino , Associate Professor of English Studies, teaches writing, literature, and teacher-preparation classes at Fitchburg State University. Current scholarship explores a) critical pedagogy, b) applying indigenous lenses to cultural myths, and c) action research with English teachers. Covino has recently been published in Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education (2021), English Journal (2024), and has contributed chapters to a number of edited collections. She is currently serving as a co-editor of two different volumes focused on critical pedagogy. Before university teaching, she taught middle school and high school English in Austin, Texas.

Publications

Challenging Bias and Promoting Transformative Education in Public Schooling Through Critical Literacy
Challenging Bias and Promoting Transformative Education in Public Schooling Through Critical Literacy
Lyndsey Aubin Benharris, Katharine Covino. © 2024. 207 pages.
Public schooling faces a significant problem: the acquisition of literacy perpetuates biases and hampers inclusive and transformative education. Challenging Bias and Promoting...
Critical Classroom Collections: Using Critical Literacy to Assess a Children's Literature Collection
Critical Classroom Collections: Using Critical Literacy to Assess a Children's Literature Collection
Renee R. Fratantonio, Lyndsey A. Benharris, Katharine Covino-Poutasse. © 2024. 18 pages.
Academic libraries have long supported curricula for English studies, including children's literature, and education by collecting and maintaining children's books. The...
The Role of Critical Literacy in Troubling Cultural Myths: Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to the Myth of Christopher Columbus
The Role of Critical Literacy in Troubling Cultural Myths: Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to the Myth of Christopher Columbus
Lyndsey Aubin Benharris, Katharine Covino Poutasse. © 2024. 19 pages.
This chapter outlines a qualitative study in which the researchers critically analyzed a collection of books and stories for children in early elementary school that depict the...