Junior Faculty Telling Stories: Using Storytelling as a Tool for Co-Teaching across Research and Epistemological Difference.

This paper explores how two assistant professors who come from diverse paradigmatic, theoretical, and methodological perspectives collaborated for impact to co-teach in a literacy doctoral program. Initially, we grappled with naming and negotiating our differences individually and professionally across race, culture, theory, and methodology. Storytelling and positioning theory afforded us opportunities to humanize one another and bridge differences by sharing our stories and critically examining ourselves and our training in relation to literacy research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]