Marcelle Mentor

Passionate, Fearless, Professor, Writer, Researcher, Endarkened Feminist, Learner, Dreamer, Disruptor, Bridge-Builder, Hopeful and Unapologetically Black.

Selected Publications

Phelps, D. & Mentor, M. (2024). 13A Place Where Souls Can Rest Black Girl Freedom, Liberation, and Emancipation. All About Black Girl Love in Education: bell hooks and Pedagogies of Love.

DeLuca, K., Ashley, A. B., & Mentor, M. (2024). An Unanticipated Research Initiative: How Virtual Learning Reaffirmed Our Commitment to Inquiry. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 26 (1/2), 311-362.

Yuan, T., Waite, S. R., Bristol, T. J., & Mentor, M. (2023). NYC Men Teach: Listening to and Supporting Early-Career Asian American Male Teachers in English Teaching. english leadership quarterly, 45 (3), 5.

Mentor, M and Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2021) Doing the Deep Work of Antiracist Pedagogy: Towards Self-excavation for Equitable Classroom Teaching. English Language Arts. NCTE.

Rogers, J., McLean, A., & Mentor, M. (2019). A Seat At The Table: Womanist Narratives of Black Mothers in Doctoral Programs. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 18 (1).

Waite, S, Mentor, M., & Bristol, T. J. (2018). Growing our own: Reflections on developing a pipeline for male educators of color. Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research, 1(1), 148-166.

Bristol, T. &. Mentor, M. (2018). Policing and Teaching: The Positioning of Black Male Teachers as Agents in the Universal Carceral Apparatus. The Urban Review

Mentor, M., Strome, E., Asunka, S., Agnitti, G., & Natriello, G. (2008, June). Early returns on an institutional repository: an exploration of the validity and functionality of pocket knowledge. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (pp. 459-459). ACM.

Conferences

Selected Recent Conferences Include

Invitations to Create: Responding to Literature through the Arts and through Distance.

 Presented at the Transitions and Transactions (T&T)Annual Conference 2022

Blom, N.; Bruni-Ashley, A.; & Mentor, M.

Weaving a Stronger Tapestry: How Can We Weave Commitments to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Throughout Teacher Education Coursework? 

Presented at the National Council for Teachers of English (NTCE) Annual Conference 2021

DeLuca, K.; Bruni-Ashley, A.; & Mentor, M. 

Threading Anti-racism and Culturally Sustaining Methods into the Fabric of Pre-service Teaching Coursework.

Presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA)Annual Conference (2021)

DeLuca, K.; Bruni-Ashley, A.; & Mentor, M. 

Differentiating professional development to grow the capacity of novice male teachers of color: A qualitative methods exploration.

(AERA) American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON. 2019

Waite, S., Bristol, T. J., Mentor, M., Yuan, T., Haynes, R. 

Policing and teaching: How Black male teachers embrace and resist the encapsulated role of behavior manager.

Paper presented at the 2018 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Bristol, T. J. & Mentor, M.

Growing and Sustaining Black Teachers: Examining the Intersection of Identity, Professional Development, and School Context

AERA 2018

Mentor, M.

 “Policing and Teaching: The Positioning of  Black Male Teachers as Agents in the Universal Carceral Apparatus”

 SSSP Annual Meeting 2018

Bristol, T.J. and Mentor, M 

Reflections on Building A Pipeline: The NYC Men Teach Program Study 

Teaching in Trying Times Conference – Teachers College 2018

Mentor, M.