Johnnie Romon Blunt, PhD
Education & Youth Services Librarian
Assistant Professor of Instruction
LIB 349
Office Hours:
- Rod Library (LIB 349)
- Monday and Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
- Tuesday - Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Schindler Education Center (SEC 202K)
- Monday and Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Johnnie Romon Blunt, PhD
Education & Youth Services Librarian
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Liaison Areas
- Curriculum & Instruction
- Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies (EPFLS)
- Special Education
- Teaching
- Youth Collection
Biography
An academic librarian with 16 years of experience, I believe (to paraphrase nineteenth-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass) that literacy and literacy education are the paths from slavery to freedom. Freedom from unquestioned and coercive sociopolitical ideologies. Freedom from complacency. Within this context, libraries are sites of literacy and liberation. Librarians are freedom fighters.
BA, English Literature, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
MA , English Literature, Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)
MLIS, Academic Librarianship, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)
PhD, Literacy, Culture, and Language, Oakland University (Rochester, MI)
Critical Information Literacy
African American Literature
Scholarly Research and Writing
History of African American Literacy and Literacy Education
Critical Literacy
Critical Information Literacy