Elizabeth Birr Moje is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in Educational Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Moje teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary and adolescent literacy, literacy and cultural theory, and qualitative and mixed research methods.

Moje also serves as a Faculty Associate in the University’s Institute for Social Research, and a Faculty Affiliate in Latino/a Studies. Her research interests revolve around the intersection between the literacies and texts youth are asked to learn in the disciplines (particularly in science and social studies) and the literacies and texts they experience outside of school. In addition, Moje studies how youth make culture and enact identities from their home and community literacies, and from ethnic cultures, popular cultures, and school cultures. These research interests stem from the start of her career when she taught history, biology, and drama at high schools in Colorado and Michigan.

Moje has published 3 books and numerous book chapters, as well as articles in journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, Review of Research in Education, Reading Research Quarterly, Teachers College Record, Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Research in the Teaching of English, Urban Review, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Science Education.  Her research projects have been or are currently funded by the National Institutes of Health/Office of Vocational and Adult Education/Institute of Education Sciences, as well as the National Science Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, International Reading Association, and the National Academy of Education. Moje served as a member of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Adolescent Literacy Council, the 2009 PISA Steering Committee, and as Research Chair of the National Conference on Research on Language and Literacy (NCRLL).  She is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Reading Research, Volume IV.

In her spare time, Moje serves as chauffeur to her daughter, Avery, who attends middle school in Ann Arbor, and dances, plays piano and flute, and sews for recreation.  Moje is married to John Moje, Program Administrator at the School of Education.