Michelle Devereaux

Michelle D. Devereaux has taught English Education for almost twenty years as both a secondary English teacher and a university professor. Her teaching and scholarship focus on language studies in the secondary English classroom, highlighting how linguistic and sociolinguistic concepts can be integrating into existing curricula. She has written books on rhetorical grammar in the classroom (Grammar to Get Things Done: A Practical Guide for Teachers Anchored in Real-World Usage, Routledge and National Council of Teachers of English) and edited collections about teaching linguistic diversity in the secondary English Language Arts classroom (Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom, Routledge). She is a Fulbright Scholar who taught in the Czech Republic in the 2018 – 2019 academic year. During her time abroad, she became interested in Global Englishes and has recently published on global English variation in the classroom (Teaching English Variation in the Global Classroom, Routledge).