Dawan Coombs is an associate professor of English at BYU. She received her bachelor’s degree in English teaching from BYU. She then earned her master's degree from the University of Utah and her doctorate in language and literacy education from the University of Georgia.
She researches adolescent literacy and struggling readers, teacher education, Bakhtinian theory and dialogic teaching. Her teaching interests are reading and literature pedagogy and adolescent literature.
Her remarks will be broadcast live on BYUtv, BYUtv.org. Video, text and audio are archived on speeches.byu.edu