Josephine Ingram

Josephine Ingram (she/her) is a doctoral student and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster at UC Berkeley's School of Education, advised by Kris Gutiérrez. Her research interests include gender and literacy, queer youth activism in schools, and teaching about collective action. Theoretically, she looks to decolonial thought, Marxism, and queer theory; methodologically, to ethnographic, design-based, and quantitative research methods. Currently, she is a Graduate Student Instructor for Glynda Hull’s “The Art of Making Meaning”. She is a Junior Editor and incoming Internal Review Coordinator for the Berkeley Review of Education, and a reviewer for the Berkeley Scientific Journal. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in Teacher Education from UC Berkeley.

Originally from San Diego, prior to UC Berkeley she was a high school English teacher, GSA advisor, and UTLA member in Los Angeles Unified. Her academic work has been published in Behavioral Sciences, and she has delivered presentations on generative AI, social justice pedagogy, and Octavia Butler at various conferences and organizations. Her poetry has been published in assorted poetry journals, and she has received poetry residencies from Tin House and Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Outside of the Education department, she is a Graduate Student Affiliate in the Center for Ethnographic Research and the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. She is pursuing the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science. Her professional memberships include AERA and the Queer Studies Special Interest Group, the Literacy Research Association, and formerly, United Teachers Los Angeles and the National Council of Teachers of English.