Erin Drulis, Ph.D.
Erin S. Drulis, Ph.D., is a Service Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the English Secondary Education program at West Virginia University. She earned a B.A. in English Secondary Education from The College of New Jersey, an M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Education with a concentration in Curriculum, Culture, and Change from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Drulis's scholarship focuses on collaborative teacher-researcher partnerships, practitioner inquiry, instructional coaching, and secondary writing instruction. Her doctoral dissertation, Amplifying Student Voices: A Case Study on the Writing Workshop in a 10th Grade English Classroom, emerged from a year-long teacher-researcher partnership with a secondary English teacher and her 10th grade students. Through sustained instructional coaching and practitioner inquiry, the study centered the voices of student research participants and explored how a culturally affirming Writing Workshop instructional model fostered student agency, relational trust, critical consciousness, and meaningful classroom communities.Before joining WVU, Dr. Drulis worked as a high school English teacher, academic advisor, instructional coach, and teacher educator. She is committed to preparing reflective English educators who cultivate inclusive, student-centered classrooms.