Dr. Susan S. Fields is a Clinical Associate Professor and director of the Graduate Certification program at Texas A&M’s College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Fields’ work is rooted in the belief that all adolescents deserve rigorous, relevant, and affirming literacy experiences. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on adolescent literacy instruction, assessment, children’s/YA literature, and content-area/disciplinary literacy. Her research focuses on the intersection of identity and literacy learning. Most recently, she has been working on a project that explores how pre-service teachers make choices about including diverse texts in educational contexts.

Dr. Fields’ work has been published in the Journal of Literacy Research, Journal for Adult and Adolescent Literacy, Cognition and Instruction, Research in the Teaching of English, Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, and Reading and Writing Quarterly.

She previously taught middle school English in Houston, TX and Boston, MA and served as a literacy tutor and coach.