Rebekah Buchanan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. She was a 2018-2019 Fulbright Roving Scholar to Norway where she spent a year conducting workshops on United States history, culture, and politics to students and teachers in upper secondary schools throughout Norway. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. She has written extensively on popular culture in the classroom, youth’s out of school literacy practices, music-based pedagogy, punk, including her book Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics (Peter Lang, 2018). Currently, she is working on projects around teaching in Norway, Norwegian prison education, and reading and activism in the Harry Potter series.
