George Kamberelis is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He conducts research and scholarship on qualitative research methods and literacy learning and teaching in school and non-school settings. He is especially interested in the philosophical and theoretical foundations of qualitative inquiry and the quasi-unique affordances of focus groups in qualitative research studies. His theoretical and empirical work has appeared in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Literacy Research, Linguistics and Education, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Qualitative Inquiry. Citations for publications especially relevant to the course he is teaching at the Qualitative Research Summer Institute are listed below:
- Kamberelis, G., Dimitriadis, G., & Welker, A. (In press). Focus group research and/in figured worlds. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (5th ed., pp. xxx-xxx). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Kamberelis, G., & Dimitriadis, G. (2014). Focus groups: Retrospect and prospect. In The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods (pp. 315-340). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kamberelis, G., & Dimitriadis, G. (2013). Focus groups: From structured interviews to collective conversations. New York: Routledge.
- Martin, A. D., & Kamberelis, G. (2013). Mapping not tracing: Qualitative educational research with political teeth. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26(6), 668-679.
- Kamberelis, G. (2013). Focus group research. In M. Savin-Baden & C. Major (Eds.). An Introduction to qualitative research (pp. 386-387). New York: Routledge.
- Kamberelis, G., & Dimitriadis, G. (2011). Focus groups: Contingent articulations of pedagogy, politics, and inquiry. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (4th ed., pp. 545-561). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Kamberelis, G., & Dimitriadis, G. (2005). Focus groups: Strategic articulations of pedagogy, politics, and research practice. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (3rd ed., pp. 887-907). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Kamberelis, G., & Dimitriadis, G. (2005). On qualitative inquiry: Approaches to language and literacy research. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Kamberelis, G. (2003). Ingestion, elimination, sex, and song: Trickster as premodern avatar of postmodern research practice. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(5), 673-704.
