Faculty/Staff Information

• Ph. D, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2009
• MAT, Whitworth College, 1995
• B.A. Gonzaga University, 1994

Dr. Marie LeJeune teaches courses in literacy instruction, children’s and young adult literature, and language arts methods.  She is a former secondary language arts teacher and reading specialist and has over 13 years of classroom experience in K-12 school settings.  She is passionate about books for young readers and has an extensive collection of children’s and young adult literature that she enjoys sharing with teachers and students in public school classrooms.  She is active in the National Council of Teachers of English, the International Literacy Association, the Children’s Literature Assembly and other organizations dedicated to quality literacy instruction in schools.  She is currently a member of the national Orbis Pictus Committee, an award given to the most outstanding nonfiction for readers in grades K-8 each year.  Her research focuses on issues closely related to children’s and young adult literature, literature based instruction, and literacy teacher research.