Richard Beach

Richard Beach is professor of English education at the University of Minnesota. He is the author or co-author of Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools; Teaching Literature to Adolescents; Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Based Guide to Links and Activities; Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Literature and Life; and High School Students’ Competing Social Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Allegiances through Responding to Multicultural Literature. He is also the organizing editor for the annual “Annotated Bibliography of Research” for Research in the Teaching of English. He is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Commission on Media and was awarded the 2009 Computers in Reading Research Award from the International Reading Association (IRA).