Breanya Hogue

• Ph.D. — Literacy, Culture, & Language Education, Indiana University-Bloomington (2023)
  • Minor: Educational Leadership (School Principal Certification)
• M.Ed. — School Counseling, University of Louisville (2011)
• B.S.Ed. — Elementary Education, University of Louisville (2009)

• 2022 – present
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Curriculum and Instruction
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2021 – 2022
  Visiting Lecturer
  Division of Education
  Indiana University, Purdue University-Columbus, Columbus, IN
• 2020 – 2021
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  School of Education
  University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
• 2016 – 2020
  Associate Instructor
  Literacy, Culture, Language Education
  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• 2011 – 2016
  5th Grade Teacher
  Minors Lane Elementary
  Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2009 – present
  Ella Baker Trainer (Literacy Curriculum Trainer/On-call Consultant)
  Freedom Schools Program
  Children’s Defense Fund, Washington, D.C. (various locations)

• 2025 SEED for Success Acorn Award
• 2023-2024 Faculty Engagement Award
• 2023 Scholarship of Engagement Fellow
• Associate Instructor Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2020
• Nominee for School of Education Graduate Student of the Year & Leading the Way Awards, Black Graduate Student Association, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2020 (Leading the Way Award Recipient)
• Harste Alternative Literacies Fellowship, Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2018, 2019
• Office of Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Seed Grant Award Recipient for Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Inclusive Excellence and Sense of Belonging

Children’s Books

• Hogue, B. (children’s book, self-published). Black Girl, Why Are You So? (April 2025).
• Hogue, B. (children’s book, self-published). Never Catch Me! (Nursery Rhyme Book). (March 2022).
• Hogue, B. (children’s book, self-published). Shawn Trenell The Greatest of All Time. (March 2020).
• Hogue, B. (children’s book, self-published). Act Your Age Shawn Trenell! (May 2018).

Selected Publications

• Hogue, B., Xue, M., & Wessel-Powell, C. (2025). A self-Study of Bi-Directional Mentoring Relationships Within an Early Literacy Methods Course. Studying Teacher Education, 1-24.
• Hogue, B. (2025). Teacher authorship as critical self‐reflection and engagement in authentic student writing. Literacy, 59(2), 268-279.
• Wessel-Powell, C., Hogue, B., Pennington, C., Lathrop, B., & Neal-Stanley, A. (2025). Parents’ Rights and the “Dangers of Critical Race Theory” for Children: More Than Spots & Stripes. Equity & Excellence in Education, 1-17.
• Hogue, B., & Wessel-Powell, C. (2024). Reading an Intersectional LGBTQIA+ Children’s Book with Preservice Teachers: One Teacher Educator’s Experience. Journal of Children’s Literature.
• Hanley, W., & Hogue, B. (2024). Insisting on success as resistance: Building an ecosystem of Black joy, laughter and affirmation. Black Educology Mixtape” Journal”, 2(1), 2.
• Appleget, C., Shimek, C., Myers, J., & Hogue, B. C. (2022). Self-study communities of practice: A traveler’s guide for the journey. In Learning through collaboration in self-study: Critical friendship, collaborative self-study, and self-study communities of practice (pp. 235-248). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
• Shimek, C., Appleget, C. Meyers, J., Hogue, B. (2022) Wobbling our Way to Culturally Proactive Pedagogies: Achieving Flow in U.S. Teacher Education
• Appleget. C., Shimek, C., Myers, J., & Hogue, B. (2022). Self-Study communities of practice: A traveler’s guide for the journey. In B. Butler & S. Bullock (Eds.), Learning through Collaboration in Self-Study: Critical Friendship, Communities of Practice, and Collaborative Self-Study. Springer Publishing.
• Hogue, B. (2022). I’m listening; A vital lesson in My Rainbow by Trinity & DeShanna Neal. First Opinions, Second Reactions 14(1): Article X.
• Hogue, B., Myers, J., Shimek, C., & Appleget, C. (2021). Fostering culturally proactive pedagogies: Designing learning events for elementary literacy methods courses. Literacy Research and Instruction, 60(1), 56-80.
• Hogue, B., Meyers, J., Shimek, C., Appleget, C. (2020) Fostering Culturally Proactive Pedagogies: Designing Learning Events for Elementary Literacy Methods Courses
• Appleget, C., Shimek, C. Meyers, J., Hogue, B. (2020) A Collaborative Self-Study With Critical Friends: Culturally Proactive Pedagogies in Literacy Methods Courses
• Hershey, G., Stephenson, M., Calloway-Thomas, C., Hogue, B., McCalister, L. (October 2019). 50 Years of Generating Minds The Groups Scholars Program at Indiana University. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.