Michele Knobel

Her early work focused on the everyday literacies of adolescents within school and out-of-school settings (Knobel 1998). During the past decade her work has increasingly focused on the nature and conduct of teacher research and, particularly, the emergence and take up of new literacies and their implications for literacy education and teacher education. Nowadays, her research interests focus principally on young people's literacy practices, and the study of the relationship between new literacies and digital technologies. She has published a number of books, including "Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse and Social Practice", which documents four adolescents' in school and out of school literacy practices. She has also co-written a number of books in English and Spanish with Colin Lankshear. In Brazil, Knobel's work has influenced many literacy researchers, amongst which is Ana Paula Duboc, Patrícia da Silva Campelo Costa, Eliseo Berni Reategui and Daniel Mello Ferraz.

Knobel started her teaching career in 1986 working as a classroom teacher in grades 3 to 5 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Primary School in Noosa, Australia. After that, she started working as a lecturer in Literacy Education in three different Australian Universities: University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba (1990-1992); Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (1993, 1996-1998); Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus, Mitchelton (1994-1995). Since 1999 she has been working as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, Australia. In the meantime she went to the National Autonomous University of Mexico as a Visiting Researcher, from 1999 to 2001, and in 2002 she worked as an Assistant Professor and Associate Research Specialist in the Department of Education of the University of California. Knobel joined Montclair State University in 2003, where she worked as a professor in the Department of Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education until her death in October, 2021.

Michele Knobel (21 March 1966 Moree, Australia - 15 October 2021 Glen Ridge, NJ, USA) was a Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University and an internationally recognized researcher and scholar in the area of literacy education, new literacies and digital technologies.