Her research focuses on literacy and biliteracy as social and critical practices. She has published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Language Arts, Theory into Practice and the Journal of Teacher Education. She has a forthcoming co-edited volume with Dr. Mia Perry entitled Methodologies of Embodiment (Routledge Research Series). Karen E. Wohlwend is an associate professor in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education in the School of Education at Indiana University. Her research critically examines young children's play with toys, popular media, and digital technologies. She has authored two books: Literacy Playshop: Playing with New Literacies and Popular Media in the Early Childhood Classroom and Playing Their Way into Literacies: Reading, Writing and Belonging in the Early Childhood Classroom.