Louis. Her scholarship focuses on the socio-political contexts of literacy and language education and situates critical discourse analysis within an ethnographic tradition. She has published widely in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Linguistics & Education, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse, Critical Inquiry into Language Studies, the Journal of Literacy Research, Review of Research in Education and Race, Ethnicity and Education. Her books include Designing Socially Just Learning Communities: Designing Critical Literacy Education across the Lifespan (Routledge, 2009); A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003); Adult Education Teachers Designing Critical Literacy Practices (Routledge, 2008). She was recently a Fulbright Scholar in Critical Discourse Studies at the Universidad de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina.