Karen E. Wohlwend

Karen E. Wohlwend is an assistant professor in the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Department in the School of Education at Indiana University. Her research reconceptualizes play as a literacy for reading and writing identity texts and as a tactic for participating and learning in early childhood classrooms. Wohlwend is the author of Playing Their Way into Literacies: Reading, Writing, and Belonging in the Early Childhood Classroom as well as numerous articles and chapters that provide a critical perspective on children’s play and new literacies, popular media, gender, and identity.