Kyle P. Smith Lambros

Kyle P. Smith (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at the University of Michigan's Marsal Family School of Education. A former public school teacher from rural Kentucky, Kyle maintains a commitment to secondary English language arts by examining the promises and precarity of critical literacy instruction. With a particular emphasis on exploring the pedagogical possibilities of LGBTQ+ young adult literature to talk across differences, his work interrogates how race, religiosity, and nationhood are refracted through literary analysis and classroom conversation. His work has been published in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, and English Education.

Recently, Kyle was named a 2026 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow. You can learn more about this award and Kyle’s upcoming dissertation here: https://naeducation.org/awardee/kyle-p-smith/