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Dr Maggie Morris Davis

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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Illinois State University, United States

Email: memorr3@ilstu.edu

Profile

Maggie E. Morris Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University. Her research focuses on class and childhood/youth and how, as social constructions, representations of these concepts enter not only our language, culture, and literatures, but also shape our classrooms, curricula, and pedagogy. She is the author of Reading the Classed Child: The Language of Depression-Era Children in Poverty (University of Georgia Press, 2026). 

Research

Publications

Reading the Classed Child: The Language of Depression-Era Children in Poverty (University of Georgia Press, 2026).

Expertise

Childhood studies, American literature, English education (critical youth studies, literature methods)
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