She holds a BA (Honours) in English from Trent University and a B.Ed from Queen’s University. She earned an MPhil and PhD from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Between 2014-2017 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Child and Youth Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Broadly speaking, Erin’s interdisciplinary research focuses on young people’s literacies, texts, and cultures. For the past three years, she has been working with the Blackfoot community in southern Alberta.