
Research & Writing
Check out my linkedin or academia.edu pages for updated links to my publications or see below.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Toedt, E. (2024). Firsthand accounts of U.S. teachers pumping milk at work: A poetic inquiry.
International Review of Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231186584
Toedt, E. (2023). Schools eat stories to survive. English Journal, 112(6).
https://doi.org/10.58680/ej202332496
Toedt, E. (2019). My skin, my eyes: Re-reading racial identity using white privilege and white
racial shame frameworks. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of
Curriculum Studies, 13(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.14288/jaaacs.v13i1.191199
Book Chapters
Toedt, E. and Schick, A. (2023). The slippery spaciousness of whiteness: Critical creative
writing pedagogy in teacher education. In P. Badenhorst, S.J. Tanner, & J. Grinage (Eds.), Reckoning with the whiteness of English Education: Transformative pedagogies in English Language Arts and beyond. (pp. 133-144). Teachers College Press.
Toedt, E. & Boehm-Turner, A. (2020). White racial shame. In Z. Casey (Ed.), Critical
Understandings in Education Encyclopedia: Critical Whiteness Studies (pp. 630-637). Brill.
Boehm-Turner, A. & Toedt, E. (2020). Property, privilege, and power: The intersections of
whiteness and social class. In Z. Casey (Ed.), Critical Understandings in Education
Encyclopedia: Critical Whiteness Studies (pp. 638-645). Brill.
Literary Publications
Toedt, E. (2018). Bule. Infinite Rust, Volume 1.
Toedt, E. (2018). Conversion therapy. Infinite Rust, Volume 1.
Toedt, E. (2018). Weed killing. Lumina, Volume 8.
Toedt, E. (2011). By feel. In Taylor, D., Creating a spiritual legacy: How to share your stories,
values, and wisdom (pp. 213-214). Brozos Press.
Toedt, E. (2011). The primary colors of our moral sense. Mutuality, 18(3), 13-14.
Toedt, E. (2009). A handful of quietness. In P. Buchanan & P. Miller (Eds.), Campus Voices: A
student to student guide of college life (pp. 100-102). Regal Publishers.
Practitioner Publications
Toedt, E. (2017). Independent reading: A curricular workaround. Learning for Justice. Southern
Poverty Law Center.
Toedt, E. (2016). Do what you teach. Learning for Justice. Southern Poverty Law Center.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Toedt, E. (2024, April). Lactating Teachers: Misfits in the Institutional Design [paper].
American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Toedt, E. & Schick, A, (2023, November). Reckoning with the Whiteness of English
Education. [panel]. National Conference for Teachers of English (NCTE), Dayton, OH,
United States.
Toedt, E. (2023, May). Ignoring Bodily Needs is Engrained into Teaching. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States. https://icqi.org/
Toedt, E. (2023, May). Using Poetic Inquiry in Feminist Qualitative Research. [paper presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States. https://icqi.org/
Toedt, E. (2023, March). But it is a lot of work: Teacher mothers and the conundrum of
framing lactation as “not work”. [paper presentation]. International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship, virtual presentation.
Schick, A., Toedt, E., Boehm-Turner, A., and Belusa, M. (2022, May). Humanizing schools for teachers: Pragmatic and collective moves. [Panel]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, virtual presentation. https://icqi.org/
Toedt, E., and Schick, A. (2022, April). Approaching and rebelling against white inheritance: Critical writing pedagogy in teacher education. [Paper presentation]. American Education Research Association, San Diego, CA, United States.
Brown, M., McKinney, C., Mickelson, N. Tang, J, and Toedt, E. (2022, March). Exploring embodied and intersectional approaches to community-engaged writing. [Panel]. Conference of College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL, United States.
Schick, A., Toedt, E., & Boehm-Turner, E. (2021, May). Mother/Scholar contradictions in collective memory work. [Paper presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, virtual conference. https://icqi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/QI2021-Virtual- Preliminary-Program.pdf
Toedt, E. (2021, April). Pumping at work: Lactating teachers navigate institutional constraints. [Paper presentation]. American Education Research Association, virtual conference. https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting
Toedt, E. (2021, April). Extracting milk from mother: A critical discourse analysis of MN Statute 181.939 [Paper presentation]. American Education Research Association, virtual conference. https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting
Schick, A. & Toedt, E. (2021, April). Repositioning docile narratives and bodies: Critical writing pedagogy in teacher education [Paper presentation]. American Education Research Association, virtual conference. https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual- Meeting
Schick, A. & Toedt, E. (2020, December). Racial identity and critical literacy pedagogy.Conference of College Composition and Communication. [Roundtable Presentation]. University of Southern California, virtual conference. https://cccc.ncte.org/
Toedt, E. (2020, May). Any teachers pumping at work?: Negotiating bodily needs as a breastfeeding teacher [Paper presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States. https://icqi.org/ (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
Toedt, E. & Boehm-Turner, A. (2020, May). Exploring the phenomenon of coming into desire with undergraduate students [Paper presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States. https://icqi.org/ (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
Schick, A., Boehm-Turner, A., & Toedt, E. (2020, May). Intimately intertwined: Using collective memory to navigate mother/scholar identities [Paper presentation]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States. https://icqi.org/ (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
Toedt, E., Schick, A., and Boehm-Turner, A. (2020, April). The “successful body” in Academia: Collective memory research on m/others [Roundtable paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, United States. https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/2020-Annual-Meeting (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
Toedt, E. (2019, December). Lifting Patriarchy’s White Veil: Using poetic inquiry to look back at systems of power [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL, United States.
Toedt, E., Boehm-Turner, A., and Schick, A. (2019, December). Leaving mother at home: A collective memory examination of mother/scholar identities [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL, United States.
Alexander, Q., O’Loughlin, A.K., Chandara, D., Toedt, E. Giles, J.T., and Nuch, R. (2019, November). But I’m a queer: Quandries on queer epistemologies in collective memory research. [Conference session]. National Women’s Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Toedt, E. (2019, April). Unprotecting silence: Critical poetry in secondary English classrooms
[Roundtable paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
Toedt, E. (2019, April). Using form, sound, metaphor, and line: A poetic demonstration [Roundtable paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
Phadke, M., Toedt, E., and Boehm-Turner, A. (2019, April). Reaching in, across, and through with preservice teachers: Examining a curriculum of re-readings of self [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
Phadke, M., Toedt, E., & Boehm-Turner, A. (2019, March). Reaching across and through with preservice teachers: A re-reading curriculum [Paper presentation]. University of Minnesota’s Curriculum and Instruction Emerging Scholars Conference, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Toedt, E. (2018, November). My skin, my eyes: Re-reading racial identity using white privilege and white racial shame frameworks [Paper presentation]. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. Dayton, OH, United States.Boehm-Turner, A.; Toedt, E.; Phadke, M. (2018, October). Living Out the Both/And: Interpreting Personal Stories through Critical Re-Readings [Roundtable Paper presentation]. International Conference on Education and Social Justice, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.