CREDENTIALS

• Ph.D., Foundation of Education, University of Florida
• M.A., English, University of Florida
• MAT, Mathematics, University of Florida
• B.A., English, University of Florida
• B.S., Mathematics, University of Florida

 

ABOUT

Andrew Grunzke is an associate professor of education who has been teaching at the University of Guam since August 2021.

His research interests focus on the history of children’s media and representations of education in popular media. He has done teaching and research in literacy (including visual literacy), secondary teaching methods, educational foundations, and research methods. Dr. Grunzke serves as the chair of the Popular Culture Affinity Group of the History of Education Society. His first book, Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams, looked at the ways that school violence was portrayed in a variety of different educational institutions across different historical eras. His second book, Education and the Female Superhero: Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers, examined the ways the education has been portrayed as the path to women’s empowerment in female-centered superhero narratives.

Areas of expertise: children’s literature, popular culture, history of education, secondary education, literacy, research methods