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Emily Midkiff

(she/her)
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Leadership, and Professional Practice, University of North Dakota

Before getting degrees in children’s literature and literacy education, Dr. Emily Midkiff spent 9 years working in children’s theater, and now does research on books with attention to what children have to say. Her most recent publication is Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children, a book-length study of science fiction for children.

Experience

  • –present
    Instructor, University of North Dakota
  • 2023–present
    Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Minnesota, Curriculum and Instruction

Publications

  • 2022
    Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children, University Press of Mississippi