Teresa Cremin

Teresa Cremin (previously known professionally as Teresa Grainger) is Professor of Education at The Open University. Her work involves research, teaching and consultancy in the fields of literature, literacy and creativity. Teresa is immediate past President of The United Kingdom Literacy Association UKLA (2007-9), and currently co-convenor of the BERA Creativity SIG and a trustee of the UK national charities Booktrust, The Poetry Archive and UKLA. Teresa is also chair of the International Reading Association (IRA) Outstanding Dissertation Committee and a steering committee member of Class Act, the National Association of Writers’ (NAWE) longitudinal research project examining partnerships between nine writers in nine schools (2007-2010).

Teresa has written and edited over 20 books and numerous research papers with colleagues and has given talks to national and international audiences. Her research and teaching has focused on four main areas: voice in writing, teachers as language artists, the relationship between teachers and pupils’ literate identities and children's imaginative development. Current projects include Building Communities: Researching literacy lives with 18 teacher-researchers and an examination of the dialogic nature of one teacher’s response to writing. Teresa’s forthcoming book Creating Communities of Writers: Writers' Voices (Routledge 2010) seeks to profile the act of composition and give voice to children, their teachers and professional writers, it is being co-authored with Debra Myhill. Her most recent book Teaching English Creatively (Routledge, 2009), compliments many of her other texts which explore the synergies between literacy and creativity, both theoretically and practically.