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Fenwick English’s scholarship includes more than 25 books and over 100 articles published in both practitioner and academic journals. He is a frequent presenter in Division A ─ Administration of the American Education Research Association. He is considered a leading advocate of the application of postmodern analysis in educational leadership, which culminated in his book, The Postmodern Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Educational Administration (2003). He also served as the general editor of the 2005 SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership and the 2006 SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. This latter work includes contributions from more than 230 scholars and practitioners from 125 universities in the United States and Canada. In 2009 he edited the SAGE International Library of Educational Thought and Practice in four volumes.

English’s scholarship has helped redefine the field of educational leadership. His 2008 book The Art of Educational Administration explores leadership as drama and the long arc of the humanities from Plutarch to Shakespeare as the source of determining the challenges of morality in school administration. Also in 2008 he published Anatomy of Professional Practice: Promising Research Perspectives in Educational Leadership with Roman and Littlefield. In 2009 he released Restoring Human Agency in Educational Administration by Pro-Active Publishers with Rosemary Papa. He is currently serving as editor of the second edition of the SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership.