Visiting Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Julia Lynch earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of North Carolina Wilmington, MAEd in Reading Education, and her BS in Elementary Education from East Carolina University. As a Black public educator, Julia’s tenure was focused primarily in under-resourced rural schools that served Black and brown communities. There, she was able to become a teacher leader in her district, building critical communities around conversations of culturally sustaining practices for the advancement of Black and brown student success.
Julia’s interests are guided by a focus on the identity of the Black women teachers, students, and their lived experiences across their educational experiences. Generally speaking, her scholarship explores teacher identity and pedagogical practices within rural education contexts. She operates primarily from a Black feminist epistemology with a critical sociocultural framework to engage in critical qualitative research that promotes equity and social justice in rural education teaching and learning. Using culturally sustaining pedagogy as a foundation, Julia’s teaching/scholarship allows students to begin to construct, perform and assess their own knowledge as they engage in critical reflection that challenges them to (re)imagine equitable teaching that may counter their cultural identity and interrogate race and racism. Reconciled cultural identity creates a more liberatory teaching practice that is inclusive of academic freedom for teachers and students.
A Black poet scholar, she engages in critical qualitative research that attempts to center the lives and experiences of other Black scholars while also disrupting normative research that doesn’t honor the authenticity of the researcher or culturally sustain the community of participants.
Friday, February 16, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST