Trevor T. Stewart
- Program Leader, English Language Arts Education
- School of Education
Office 310D
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Dr. Trevor Thomas Stewart is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and the Program Leader for English Education at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Language & Literacy Education and a Certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies from the University of Georgia (2010). Prior to becoming a teacher educator, Dr. Stewart worked as a high school English teacher in southwestern North Carolina. His previous academic appointment was at Appalachian State University (2010-2014) where he taught courses focused on writing, English Language Arts methods, and digital literacy.
Dr. Stewart’s scholarship is grounded in the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. His research extends dialogic theory to the field of education and focuses on the importance of making classrooms generative spaces that bring content into dialogue with students’ lives. His work can be found in international and national peer-reviewed journals, such as English Education, the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, The Urban Review, the Journal of Constructivist Psychology, and the International Journal of Dialogical Science. He has also published two books with colleagues reporting results from a longitudinal study examining approaches to supporting novice teachers and improving teacher induction programs:
Fecho, B., Coombs, D., Stewart, T. T., & Hawley, T. (2021). Novice teachers embracing wobble in standardized schools: Using dialogue and inquiry for self-reflection and growth. Routledge.
Fecho, B., Coombs, D., Stewart, T. T. with DiSabato, E., & Knecht Scott, R. (2024). Two years in the lives of two English teachers: To be, to do, to become. Routledge.
Dr. Stewart received the Outstanding Scholarship/Creative Achievement award from the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University in 2014, the Gary Moorman Early Career Literacy Scholar award from the American Reading Forum in 2017, and the Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech in 2021.
