Assistant Professor in Foundations, Curriculum and Instruction at Coastal Carolina University
About
Dr. Tiffany Hollis is currently an assistant professor at Coastal Carolina University. Her research interests focus on the areas of relationship-based and culturally responsive classroom management skills, trauma-informed education, critical literacy, and poetry. She is committed to diversity, equity, and social justice as evidenced by her ability to create equitable, accessible, and humanizing learning spaces and opportunities for historically marginalized students of color through poetry.
Current Work:
Dr. Hollis is focusing on developing critical, youth-centered pedagogy by building and supporting spaces for youth to experience the transformative power of their own voices in community with one another. Dr. Hollis uses an asset-based approach and makes the connection between poetry, spoken word, youth development civic engagement, and socioemotional learning skills. Dr. Hollis believes that it is crucial to provide spaces where youth can undergo a process of personal growth and transformation in a program that enriches their educational, professional, artistic and leadership skills. She is currently working with youth at an alternative school and at a middle school to use creative expression, social skills, and socioemotional skills to foster resilience and promote activism through poetry and art among youth who have been traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized, particularly youth who are multiply marginalized. Dr. Hollis is currently working on several works related to the intersection of care, socioemotional learning, restorative justice, social justice, and poetic justice through a trauma informed critical literacy/pedagogical lens.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Youth-centered pedagogy, trauma-informed creative expression, transformative education, social justive, artivism
