Emery Petchauer

petchau1@msu.edu
517-884-4413

C600 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824

FacultyEnglish

Professor
English Education; Race and Ethnic Studies

Biography

Emery Petchauer is a Professor in the Department of English. He also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Teacher Education and coordinated the secondary English education program from 2016 to 2022. His research has focused on the aesthetic practices of urban arts, particularly hip-hop culture, and their connections to teaching, learning, and living. He is the author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives (Routledge, 2012), the first scholarly study of hip-hop culture on college campuses, and the co-editor of Schooling Hip-Hop: Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum (Teachers College Press, 2013). Over two decades of organizing and sustaining urban arts spaces across the United States inform this scholarly work.

Dr. Petchauer also studies high-stakes teacher licensure exams and their relationship to the racial diversity of the teaching profession, a body of research that received the 2018 Innovation in Research on Equity and Social Justice in Teacher Education Award from Division K of the American Educational Research Association. Theories of social psychology and spatial studies inform this work, as do many years of working individually with preservice teachers to pass these exams. The insights from this research are reflected most clearly in Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams: Success and Self-Discovery on the High-Stakes Path to the Classroom (Routledge, 2019).

Dr. Petchauer has received teaching awards at both the high school and college levels, including the Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation’s first Historically Black University. His courses regularly collaborate with artists, classroom teachers, and community organizers. His scholarship and community work have been supported by the Spencer Foundation, the Office of Research and Innovation at MSU, and partnerships with Ableton and Koala Sampler.

Information on his most current project can be found here.

Courses

ENG 308: Young Adult Literature + Antiracist Teaching

ENG 408: Critical Literacies and Communities

ENG 413: Critical Questions in Language and Composition

ENG 819: Breakbeat Lit: Hip-Hop Generation Sounds and Stories

TE 250: Human Diversity, Power, and Opportunity in Social Institutions

TE 302: Learners and Learning in Context

University News

Faculty Promotions for 2022
Published December 1, 2022 in College of Arts & Letters
The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to recognize the faculty members who recently were promoted to full professor, associate professor, or associate professor-fixed term. Full Professor…Read now »
Forms of Freedom Project Reimagines Pedagogy, Artmaking, and Educational Justice
Published November 16, 2022 in College of Arts & Letters
Conceived through an imperative to reimagine the possibilities for public pedagogy, Forms of Freedom: The Art and Design of Black and Indigenous Creative Public Pedagogies is a two-year research…Read now »
MSU NCTE Student Group Wins National Excellence Award for Fourth Consecutive Year
Published October 29, 2020 in College of Arts & Letters
For the fourth consecutive year, MSU’s National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) student organization has earned the NCTE Student Affiliate Excellence Award. The MSU group, which is…Read now »
English Professor and Graduate Students to Present Keynote Panel
Published October 2, 2020 in College of Arts & Letters
From left to right: Stephany Bravo, Emery Petchauer, Vanessa Aguilar
From left to right: Stephany Bravo, Emery Petchauer, Vanessa Aguilar Emery Petchauer, Associate Professor in the Department of English, will virtually present a keynote panel, “Breaking and…Read now »
NCTE Student Affiliate Earns National Excellence Award
Published November 12, 2019 in College of Arts & Letters
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For the third year in a row, Michigan State University will receive the NCTE Student Affiliate Excellence Award in recognition of its high standards of performance. MSU’s student…Read now »
New Book Explores Overcoming Obstacles to Teacher Licensure Exams
Published January 24, 2019 in College of Arts & Letters
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Aimed at preservice teachers, the latest book by Associate Professor Emery Petchauer, titled Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams, explores the different obstacles presented with teacher…Read now »
Student Group Honored with National Award
Published October 16, 2018 in College of Arts & Letters
For the second year in a row, Michigan State University will receive the NCTE Student Affiliate Excellence Award in recognition of meeting high standards of performance. MSU’s…Read now »
Professor Honored for Work Addressing Issues of Equity and Social Justice
Published March 27, 2018 in College of Arts & Letters
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Associate Professor Emery Petchauer was selected to receive a distinguished award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for his significant scholarly contributions…Read now »
National Council of Teachers of English Student Affiliate Wins Award of Excellence
Published August 17, 2017 in College of Arts & Letters
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Michigan State University has been named one of three recipients of the 2017 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Student Affiliate Excellence Award. Founded in 2012, the award honors NCTE…Read now »
Faculty and Student Work Honored at National Convention
Published November 22, 2016 in College of Arts & Letters
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The College of Arts & Letters was well represented at the 2016 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference with Tamara Butler, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and…Read now »
College Welcomes New Faculty
Published September 9, 2016 in College of Arts & Letters
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This fall, the College of Arts & Letters welcomes many new faculty members, including 11 who are either tenured or in the tenure system. Those faculty members include: Cara…Read now »
English Major Selected as Commencement Speaker
Published May 3, 2016 in College of Arts & Letters
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English major Kelsey Wiley has been selected as the student speaker for the spring 2017 College of Arts & Letters commencement ceremony, which is Sunday, May 7, at 9:30 a.m. at the Breslin…Read now »