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Eppley, Karen

Karen Eppley is a former fifth-grade teacher and Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Pennsylvania State University, USA, where she teaches in the reading specialist certification program. Her research interest is at the intersection of literacy education and rural education. She writes about rurality as a contested social space within economic globalization, rural literacies, textual representations of rurality, rural education as a matter of social justice, and critical policy analysis. She edits the Journal of Research in Rural Education.