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Justin Grinage is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota, where he focuses on critical whiteness studies, racial literacy, and anti-racist pedagogy. His research examines how racialization processes in schools reproduce systemic racism through neoliberal multiculturalism, affect theory, and critical literacy frameworks.
Grinage’s research centers on racial melancholia theory, which he developed to analyze racial trauma and resistance in educational spaces. His work explores how historical racial violence informs classroom dynamics and how critical education can counteract these traumas through collaborative, non-competitive advising and anti-oppressive teaching.
- PhD from the University of Minnesota
- Co-editor of Reckoning with the Whiteness of English Education (2023)
His recent publications analyze post-George Floyd equity challenges, racialized emotions in schools, and strategies for addressing censorship in literature. Grinage has received the Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Janet Emig Award for his groundbreaking work on whiteness and affect in English education.
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Janet Emig Award (2020)
- Institute for Teachers of Color Fellow (2020)
Grinage teaches graduate-level courses on literacy in post-truth eras, sociocultural theory, and secondary English pedagogy. He emphasizes community-building in academia and challenges neoliberal structures through collaborative research mentorship.
