Candace R. Kuby

Candace R. Kuby is an assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Missouri. She received her PhD in literacy, culture, and language education from Indiana University. Her scholarship focuses on: (1) critical, inventive, hybrid, and multimodal literacies and (2) innovative qualitative research methodologies. Candace is the author of Critical Literacy in the Early Childhood Classroom: Unpacking Histories, Unlearning Privilege (2013, Teachers College Press) and coeditor of Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research (2014, Peter Lang). Journals in which her scholarship appears include Qualitative Inquiry; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice; and Young Children. Candace teaches courses on early childhood literacy and qualitative inquiry.