Bethany Monea

Affiliate Faculty

Youth writing and media, Community Writing, Critical digital literacies, Participatory and arts-based methods, College transitions

Bethany Monea, Ph.D., is an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Social Science Research at GMU. She co-facilitates the Youth Research Council, a youth participatory action research project where high school youth conduct equity-oriented research to enact meaningful change in their schools.

Dr. Monea is an assistant professor of Community Writing in the English program at the University of the District of Columbia. She is committed to using the arts and media to expand access to and participation in academic knowledge production, and she has facilitated community-driven arts and research projects such as a youth-created YouTube channel about college transitions for first-gen students, a public high school’s first literary arts magazine, a transnational online writing community, and a bilingual creative writing group. In 2021, she received the Kairos Best Webtext Award for "Screen Reading: A Gallery of (Re)Imagined Interfaces," and her dissertation, "Composing Borderlands: The Lives and Literacies of First-Generation, Latinx Youth Transitioning to College Writing" received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award. Dr. Monea stives to build justice-oriented partnerships between university and community-based researchers, writers, and artists, and is always open to new collaborations. She can be reached at bethanymonea@gmail.com.

Selected Publications

Call-Cummings, M., Monea, B., Dazzo, G. P., Best, A. L., Gray, N., Kalinichenko, O., Khalid, W., Keller, J., & Davis, K., (2024) Youth-led research and the tensions between relational methodologies and fast methods: Learning and living in the in-between. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231224757

Stornaiuolo, A., & Monea, B. (2023). Adolescents’ ‘Pocket Writing’: How concealed writing circulates in schools. Written Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231169508

Monea, B., Stornaiuolo, A., & Plummer Catena, E. (2023). Reframing temporality in participatory visual research with timelapse video. Qualitative Research, 23(1), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211019524

Monea, B. (2020). Looking at screens: Examining human-computer interaction and communicative breakdown in an educational online writing community. Computers & Composition, 58.

Monea, B. (2020). Screen reading: A gallery of re-imagined interfaces. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 24(2).

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

M.A., North Carolina State University