Naitnaphit Limlamai, PhD is an Assistant Professor of English Education at Colorado State University where she teaches and studies secondary English teacher preparation and how that work manifests justice. Specifically, she investigates how justice is defined, constructed, and enacted by teacher educators, in secondary English methods classes, and how those ideas travel from university preparation course work to student teaching classrooms. Her additional interests include how writers develop as such; how we help teachers understand the relationship between language, identity, culture, and power; collaboration; and antiracist organizational change. Before earning her doctorate, Naitnaphit taught high school English for 13 years in public and private schools in Florida, Georgia, and New York. Naitnaphit’s research and secondary teaching shape her work with secondary English teachers and her teaching of secondary English methods courses.

Naitnaphit currently serves as the Vice President of the Colorado Language Arts Society (CLAS), the state affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). She is also a co-chair for the Mentorship Committee of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE (ALAN), co-chair for the English Language Arts Teacher Educator (ELATE) Social Justice Commission, and Executive Committee member for ELATE.

She has previously served as a 2025-2026 Fulbright Roving Scholar to Norway and was a Fellow in the 2022-2024 cohort of NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellowship Program. She has worked as an editorial assistant for Research in the Teaching of English; served as the diversity, inclusion, justice, and equity chair of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English; and was a committee member of NCTE’s College Section Nomination Committee.

Naitnaphit grew up in Southern California and earned her BA from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She completed the Alliance for Catholic Education program and taught high school English and French to earn her M. Ed from the University of Notre Dame. She earned her doctorate degree from the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan.