Valerie Kinloch (born 1974) is an American writer, educator, and academic administrator. She is the president of the Johnson C. Smith University starting in August 2023.^[2][3] She also served as the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.

Life

Kinloch is from Charleston, South Carolina.^[4] She earned a bachelor's degree in English and literature from the Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) in 1996.^[5] She earned a master's degree (December 1998) in English and African-American literature and a Ph.D. in English from Wayne State University.^[5][4]

For three and a half years, Klinoch was an assistant professor of English focusing on composition and rhetoric at the University of Houston–Downtown.^[5][4] She later worked as an associate professor of English education at the Teachers College, Columbia University.^[5][4] She was an associate dean and professor at the Ohio State University.^[5] In July 2017, Kinloch became the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.^[6]

In June 2023, she was named the 15th president of JCSU, effective August 1.^[5] She succeeds Clarence D. Armbrister.^[7]

Selected works

• Kinloch, Valerie (2006). June Jordan: Her Life and Letters. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-275-98241-6.
• Kinloch, Valerie (2010). Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth. Teachers College Press. ISBN 978-0-8077-5023-0.
• Kinloch, Valerie (2012). Crossing Boundaries-teaching and Learning with Urban Youth. Teachers College Press. ISBN 978-0-8077-5294-4.

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