The Language Arts Journal of Michigan (LAJM) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on literacy and English language arts education at all instructional levels. Since 1985, the journal has been published biannually by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English (MCTE), a state affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The LAJM publishes original articles in the following areas: English education methods, K-12 practice, classroom research, critical pedagogy, teacher narrative, literary criticism, review of professional works or young adult fiction, and essays, short fiction, or memoir. The contents of the LAJM do not necessarily reflect the views of MCTE or its members.
The LAJM is hosted by Scholarworks at Grand Valley State University. Please use this site as follows:
- Authors may read the current call, read our submission guidelines or submit an article.
- Interested reviewers may request to review for the LAJM or read our reviewing guidelines.
- Visitors may browse full text articles that have been in publication for six months.
- MCTE members receive two print-based issues of LAJM each year. If you are a MCTE member and would like to obtain a digital copy of a newly published issue before it is made available here to the general public, please email the editors (see Contact Us). To become an MCTE member, please register for the annual conference.
Current Issue: Volume 38, Issue 2 (2023)
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Neo Hopkins
Letter from the Editors
Raven L. Jones, Tanya Upthegrove Gregory, and Alexandra M. Sánchez
Letter from MCTE's President
Carrie Mattern
hook’d on Ebonics and Black Texts: Enacting an Engaged Pedagogy in an 11th Grade ELA Classroom
Teaira McMurtry PhD
Educator Spotlight: Eddie Thigpen III
Eddie Thigpen III
Student Spotlight: Madelyn (MJ) S.
Madelyn S.
Factors for Success: Supporting Black Doctoral Students
Shondra L. Marshall, Clyde Barnett III, Quentrese Hinton, and Courtney BrieAnn Morris
From Fear to FroTastic
Zuri Hudson Stanbrough
Community Spotlight: Brandi Ely-Ayres
Brandi Ely-Ayers
Educator Spotlight: Jaime Valente
Jaime Valente
Teaching Social Justice Through Gothic Young Adult Literature
Lindsey I. Carman Williams and Ashley S. Boyd
Reviewer Spotlight: Ayah Issa
Ayah Issa
Identity and Racism in Young Adult Literature
Marisa Frisk, Kirsi Anderson, and Emma Barron
Wakanda: Opening the High School Classroom to Afrofuturism
Carrie M. Mattern