Sunah Chung, PhD
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Literacy Education
Schindler Education Center 107G
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0612
Sunah Chung, PhD
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Literacy Education
My research focuses on children's literacy learning through reading children's literature. With the experience in teaching adolescents in South Korea, I am also interested in English language learners' reading children's literature, especially informational picturebooks and biography, to enhance their language and disciplinary knowledge. Through my research, I seek to make children's literature more equitable and inclusive and to create learning spaces to develop disciplinary knowledge and literacy.
PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A, English Language Education, Chung-Ang University
Reading assessment
Children's and young adult literature
Teaching methods of early literacy
Children's literature
Informational picture books
Biography
Literacy development
Chung, S. & Chaudhri, A. (2021). Biographies of Women in the Robert Sibert Award: A Critical Content Analysis. Journal of Children's Literature, 47(1)
Chung, S. (2019). Baring teeth or bearing teeth?: Stereotypical visual representations in informational picturebooks. New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 25(1-2), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2020.1774268
Chung, S. (2019). Review of the book Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea by Dafna Zur. The Lion and the Unicorn, 43(3), 430-433. https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2019.0037
Chung, S. (2019). The diversity of protagonists in ILA Choices. The Dragon Lode, 38 (1), 46-52.
Chung, S., & Choi, Y. (2013). Does same-sex preference make 3-4-year-olds more gullible? The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26 (4), 93-105.