Alex J. Armonda | Education | SIU

Alex J. Armonda, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education. He teaches courses on curriculum theory and educational foundations in the Curriculum and Instruction program. Alex’s scholarship explores the traditions of critical pedagogy, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, and educational philosophy. His work has appeared in notable journals and edited volumes, including Educational Theory, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies.

Alex’s current research project is a book examining key intersections in the work of Paulo Freire and Jacques Lacan, tentatively titled A Lacanian Foundation for Critical Pedagogy. Alongside Noah De Lissovoy (UT Austin) and Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon (UNR), he is also the co-editor of a new volume titled Teaching as Radical Logic: Dialectic, Analectic, and Education, currently in press at Lexington Books.

Education

Ph.D., 2022, University of Texas at Austin

Areas of Interest

Critical pedagogy; critical theory; psychoanalysis; curriculum studies; educational philosophy