Norman earned her doctorate and master’s in curriculum and instruction and a bachelor’s in English education from Purdue University. She served as a high school English teacher for four years before entering higher education. As a visiting professor at Northern Michigan University, Norman taught a variety of English education courses. Her teaching interests include adolescent literacy, critical literacies, new and multimodal literacies, integrated reading and writing pedagogy, young adult literature, student centered teaching, and culturally responsive teaching. Norman’s research and scholarship focuses on bridging the gap between educational theory and classroom practice through storytelling methods, teacher research and narrative inquiry.