Karenanna Boyle Creps is the Subject Area Leader of Arts Integration in the Department of Teacher Education, where she also earned her doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education in 2020. Her research interests include arts education, education abroad, experiential education, intercultural education, teacher education, curriculum and instruction, differentiating teaching and learning across formal education stages (primary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate), arts-based research, a/r/tography, performative autoethnography, poetic inquiry, and the ethics of education research. Her arts-based research is published in Qualitative Inquiry, the Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, and The AutoEthnographer. Her work was featured in the Diversity Abroad Network webinar, Program Director Roles in Inclusive Education Abroad. Her book chapter, Epistemicide is Not Foregone: A/r/tography as Liberation, in the book, Understanding Curriculum Epistemicide: Possibilities and Complicated Conversations, will be released by Peter Lang in 2026. She has also published multiple blog posts about arts integration practice for K-12 arts educators on the Michigan Assessment Consortium’s Michigan Arts Education Instruction and Assessment Blog. She is a poet and performing artist, and her poetry appears in Muddy River Poetry Review and S/tick.
In the Department of Teacher Education, she has taught: TE430: Introduction to Arts in the Classroom, TE431: Learning Through Drama, and TE432: Learning Through Movement. She has also taught TE802/TE804, Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I/II for K-12 Visual Arts Education Interns. She co-facilitated MSU’s Arts-Based Research Faculty Learning Community with Dr. Liv Furman from 2023 – 2025. In 2023, she received a Friend of Girl Scouting award from the Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan for her work to introduce troop leaders to arts integration.