Rate My Professor Michelle Devereaux

Dr. Michelle D. Devereaux serves as Professor of English and English Education and Director of the English Education Program at Kennesaw State University. With nearly twenty years of experience in English Education, she has worked as a secondary English teacher and university professor. Her career includes a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, during which she taught in the Czech Republic in the 2018–2019 academic year. This international experience deepened her interest in Global Englishes and variations in English worldwide. At Kennesaw State University, she coordinates the B.S. in English Education and contributes to the preparation of future educators through her leadership and teaching.

Devereaux's research and scholarship focus on language studies within the secondary English classroom, particularly the integration of linguistic and sociolinguistic concepts into standard curricula. Her work addresses rhetorical grammar, teaching linguistic diversity in English Language Arts, dialect variation, and pandialectal learning approaches. She has produced several key publications that support educators in these areas. These include co-authored books such as Grammar to Get Things Done: Daily Lessons for Teaching Grammar in Context (Routledge and NCTE, 2017, with Darren Crovitz), More Grammar to Get Things Done: A Practical Guide for Teachers Anchored in Real-World Usage (Routledge and NCTE, 2020, with Darren Crovitz), and Next Level Grammar for a Digital Age (Routledge and NCTE, 2022, with Darren Crovitz and Clarice Moran). She is also the author of Teaching About Dialect Variation and Language in Secondary English Classrooms: Power, Prestige, and Prejudice (Routledge, 2015) and co-editor of Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom: Models and Lessons from Around the World (Routledge, 2021, with Chris C. Palmer) and Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom: Strategies and Models from Teachers and Linguists (Routledge, 2019, with Chris C. Palmer). Additional works include the article "Motivations and Frameworks for Pandialectal Learning" in American Speech (2021, with Chris C. Palmer and Victoria Thompson) and a forthcoming chapter "Using Memes to Teach Linguistic Concepts in the ELA Classroom." Devereaux regularly teaches courses like LING 3025: Linguistics for Education, ENGL 3310: Principles of Writing Instruction, and ENGL 7731: Language Studies in English.