Jessica Lee Stovall

Education

PhD 2023, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and Curriculum and Instruction)

MA 2014, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Literature)

BA 2007, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (Secondary Education, English)

Short Biography

Jessica Lee Stovall’s research sits at the intersection of Black Studies and education. In her current work, Jessica employs notions of educational fugitivity to theorize how Black teachers co-construct Black space, and how these curated Black-affirming places are rehumanizing and sustaining for Black teachers. Her dissertation on Black teachers provides a blueprint for how teachers can create classrooms of liberated learning for their students, and it was awarded the Critical Educators for Social Justice Dissertation Award at the 2024 American Educational Research Association annual meeting. Jessica’s research has been generously funded by the Spencer dissertation grant, the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching grant, among others. Before starting her doctoral studies at Stanford, Jessica taught ELA 11 years in the Chicagoland area.

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Selected Publications 

Stovall, J.L., Timmons-Long, L.,** Rodney, T.,** Hall, T.* (2023). Black Teachers’ Use of Liberatory Design to Promote Literacies of Healing. English Journal https://doi.org/10.58680/ej202332734 

Stovall, J. L., (2023) Cycles of fugitivity: How Black teacher fugitive space shapes Black teacher pedagogies. Equity & Excellence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2023.2280728

Stovall, J.L., & Mosely, M.** (2023). “We just do us”: How Black teachers co-construct Black teacher fugitive space in the face of antiblackness. Race Ethnicity and Education https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2022.2122424

Stovall, J.L. (2022). “We will not be afraid to share who we are”: Black teachers’ experiences with antiblackness during a global pandemic. Journal of Negro Education, 91(3), 416-430. [Reprinted in The Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research in 2024]

Stovall, J.L., & Sullivan, T.* (2022). “Grant us the sun”: What Black teachers need. Phi Delta Kappan, 18-21 https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217221123644

Book in Progress

The New Harriet Tubmans: Antiblacknes and the Fortitude of Black Teachers

Awards and Honors

NCTE Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award 2024 

Dissertation of the Year Award from the Critical Educators for Social Justice, AERA 2024

NYU Faculty First Look Scholar, New York University 2022

Community Service Award, Stanford Alumni Association 2022

Carl A. Grant Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2020

Courses Taught

AAS 101: Introduction to African American Studies

AAS 673: Blackness in U.S. Public Schools 

AAS 673: Black research methods and praxis