Mike Cook

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Learn more about Mike Cook

  • Professor, English/Language Arts Education
  • Program Coordinator
  • Assistant Department Head, Curriculum & Teaching

Short Bio


Mike P. Cook is Professor of English Language Arts Education. Dr. Cook’s research and teaching draw on justice, equity, and antiracism in English Language Arts teacher education and utilize a critical lens to explore teachers as agents of change. Specifically his work explores the ways ELA teacher educators prepare antiracist 6-12 grade ELA teachers and how activism is taken up as part of ELA teaching and learning at all levels. Dr. Cook’s work is published in the Journal of Teacher Education, English Education, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and other scholarly outlets.

Professional Experience


  • PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, English Education, 2014, Clemson University
  • M.ED. in Curriculum & Instruction, English Education, 2010, North Carolina State University
  • B.S. in Secondary English Education, 2006, Appalachian State University

Professional Experience

  • 2025 - Present, Professor, Auburn University
  • 2020 - 2025 Associate Professor, Auburn University
  • 2016 - 2020, Assistant Professor, Auburn University
  • 2014 - 2016, Assistant Professor, Millikin University

Engagement

2023 - Present,Director, Village Writing Project