Lisa Marie Westbrooks

Assistant Professor, (Clinical)

(313) 577-1742

Ba5832@wayne.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

225 Education Building

Lisa Marie Westbrooks

Degrees and Certifications

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

PhD in Curriculum and Instruction (2024)
Bilingual/Bicultural Studies

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Educational Specialist in Curriculum and Instruction (2013-2016)
Bilingual/Bicultural Studies

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Master of Art in Teaching, Secondary Education (2007-2012)
Concentration: English
Minor: English as a Second Language
Certifications: Secondary Education
Endorsement: English as a second Language

Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Bachelor of General Studies (2003-2006)
Major: General Studies

Minor: Linguistics

Responsibilities

Teach and collaborate with program faculty to develop and schedule ESL, BBE and World Language undergraduate and graduate courses, for PK-12 and adult educators

Serve as the ESL and BBE program coordinator

Grow partnerships with school districts for endorsement, cohort teacher initiatives, and/or certification opportunities

Advise, mentor, and help graduate students

Recruit and evaluate part-time faculty teaching in Bilingual/Bicultural Education

Facilitate Bilingual/Bicultural Education meetings, and participate in TED and College of Education meetings

Work with program faculty to advance, nurture, and sustain a vision for the program that includes open communication, collaborative decision-making, and transparency

Academic Interests

Social Justice in Education

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Culture/s

Culture and Linguistic Identities

Diversity

Linguistics (Grammar)

Language Acquisition

Equitable Education

Area of Expertise

Secondary English

English as a Second Language

Linguistics

Bilingual and Bicultural Education

Curriculum and Instruction

Research Interests

Culture/s

Elder Knowledge

African American Language

First and second language acquisition

Cultural and linguistic equities and inequties in education

Language Policies

African and African American Storytelling

Awards

Golden Key International Honour Society

King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship (2017-2020)

Rumble Fellowship (2019-2020)

Graduate Professional Scholarship (2020-2022)

Presentations

(June, 2024). (re)Imagining dialogue: Speaking to and learning from my ancestors to cast out haints. PTO, (Pedagogy of the Theatre of the Oppressed)
(May, 2024). Voices silenced: unmasking haints as cultural erasure in white school structires through the Black Storytelling Tradition. ICQI, (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry)
(April, 2023). Revealing haints utilizing the Black Storytelling Tradition, casting them out with the Theatre of the Oppresses. AERA (American Education Research Association)
(May, 2021) Breaking Westernized academic traditions with African American linguistic story workd. MASAL, (Michigan Academy of Science and Letters.
(June, 2017) Understanding the power of language Identity through urban drama. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed.

Publications

Dissertation:
Westbrooks, L.. M.( 2024) Recovering and reclaiming cultural and linguistic identities: revealing skoo haints through the Black Storytelling tradition.

Westbrooks, L. M. (2018). Skooz be hat’in: My story navigating and negotiating standard American English. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal, 3(1), 1-25.

Westbrooks, L. M, (2020). Texts white lies and a videotape: White teachers teaching African American literature. Journal for Multicultural Education, 14(3/4), 239-253.