Shirley R. Steinberg

Shirley R. Steinberg
Born	Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality	American
Fields	Education, critical media studies, cultural studies, popular culture, critical pedagogy, Islamophobia, youth and community studies
Institutions	University of Calgary
Alma mater	University of Lethbridge Pennsylvania State University
Known for	Critical multiculturalism, Kinderculture, Post-formal theory
Influences	Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, John Fiske, Aaron D. Gresson, Dorothy Heathcote, Douglas Kellner, Henry A. Giroux

Shirley R. Steinberg is an educator, author, and public speaker whose work focuses on critical pedagogy and cultural studies. She has written and edited numerous books and articles about critical pedagogy, urban and youth culture, community studies, radical love, cultural studies, Islamophobia, and issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Steinberg is the Werklund Research Chair of Critical Youth Studies at the University of Calgary and is the executive director of the Freire Project freireproject.org. She has held faculty positions at Montclair State University, Adelphi University, Brooklyn College, The CUNY Graduate Center, University of Barcelona, and McGill University. Steinberg directed the Institute for Youth and Community Research at the University of the West of Scotland.

Steinberg worked at Peter Lang Publishing as the executive editor of education for twenty years, with Joe L. Kincheloe she create Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, the largest book series on Education in publishing. She is a frequent media contributor to CJAD Radio, CBC Radio One, CTV, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and The Montreal Gazette.

Steinberg received two degrees from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, a B.Ed in English language and arts education in 1987 and a M.Ed in 1991. In 1997, she received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Pennsylvania State University.