Amanda earned her Ph.D. from Tennessee Technological University in Exceptional Learning and Literacy. Before her doctoral studies, she worked as a freelance writer, EFL teacher, and a health volunteer for the Peace Corps in Morocco. Her research and publications are focused on issues of gender and literacy, representations of Islam in education, and multicultural education. As a mother of two small children, Amanda has learned firsthand how the blurring of mothering and literacy opens up spaces for the reconfiguration of both.