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Minkyung Choi

Assistant Professor, Teaching and Learning, College for Education and Engaged Learning

Office:: University Hall
Email:: choimi@montclair.edu
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Minkyung (Min) Choi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of literacy education. She received a PhD in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and a BA in international studies from Ewha Womans University. Her current research interests include using research-based methods and localized perspectives to prepare subject-area teachers in literacy instruction in K-12.

Min has collaborated with UNICEF USA, Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), and the Obama Foundation to reimagine literacy education through storytelling. Her research on counternarratives seek to center voices often overlooked in educational research and prepare practitioners and teachers to serve the needs of a diversifying student population. Min is also the Principal Investigator for a Mellon Foundation-funded Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRESI) grant titled “Teacher-Led Instruction: Creating Asian American & Pacific Islander Curriculum” through which see seeks to expand AAPI narratives in K-12 education.

Additionally, Min is serving as co-director for a 2025 National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) K-12 Institute titled "Bridging Histories: Angel Island and Asian American Immigration," through which she will invite 25 educators to dive deep into the overlooked stories of Asian American immigration through Angel Island. Over two weeks, teachers will explore the impact of exclusionary policies on individuals and communities, learning how to bring these complex histories into the classroom in meaningful ways. More information here: https://www.neh-bridging-histories.com/

Specialization

disciplinary literacy, literacy foundations, writing across the curriculum, narrative inquiry, storytelling methodologies