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Miami team earns grant for young adult literature research

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Research and Innovation Excellence and Expertise

Miami team earns grant for young adult literature research

Kelli Rushek, assistant professor of English education, AYA ELA student Lada Gallant, and professor of English education Katherine Batchelor have received a 2025 ALAN Foundation Grant from the Assembly of Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English. The award supports their project, Literature in Rural Little Free Libraries: A Preservice ELA Teacher Action Research Project, an idea of Gallant’s sparked by AYA ELA coursework and developed collaboratively with faculty. The team’s research will be featured in a future issue of The ALAN Review and recognized at the ALAN Convention this November in Denver.

(AI tools Grammarly and ChatGPT 4.0 assisted in writing this article.)