Dr. Deirdre Kelly

Deirdre M. Kelly (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she has worked since 1991. She is the author of Last Chance High: How Girls and Boys Drop In and Out of Alternative Schools (Yale University Press) and Pregnant with Meaning: Teen Mothers and the Politics of Inclusive Schooling (Peter Lang), which won a 2003 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critic’s Choice Award. She is the co-author of “Girl Power”: Girls Reinventing Girlhood (Peter Lang), which won a 2009 AESA Critic’s Choice Award. Her research interests include teaching for social justice and democracy, gender and youth studies, critical social literacy, and news and entertainment media as public policy pedagogy. She has done one-on-one, paired, small group, and focus group interviews in the context of numerous ethnographic, case study, and participatory action research projects.