Janet Alsup

Associate Professor 
English Education
Department of Curriculum and Instruction 
Department of English

Research

Research interests include teacher education and professional identity development, the teaching of composition and literature in secondary schools, critical pedagogy, young adult literature, and qualitative and narrative inquiry.

Education

Ph.D.	University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000, English Education
M.Ed.	University of Missouri-Columbia, 1992, English Education
B.S.Ed.	University of Missouri-Columbia, 1989, English Education

Selected Publications

• Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces. Mahwah, NJ: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)/Lawerence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) Presses, 2006.
  

• But Will it Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching Secondary English Language Arts, co-authored with Jonathan Bush. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Press, 2003.
  
  
  

• “It Takes a Community of Scholars to Raise One: Multiple Mentors as Key to My Growth,” by Lu Liu, with Irwin Weiser, Tony Silva, Janet Alsup, Cindy Selfe, and Gail Hawisher. Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School: Insiders’ Reflections on Academic Enculturation, Eds. Christine Pearson Casanave and Xiaoming Li. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2008.

• Speaking From the Borderlands: Exploring Narratives of Teacher Identity.”  Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education, Ed. Bronwyn T. Williams. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006.         
  

• Janet Alsup and Tammy Conard-Salvo and Scott J. Peters, “Tutoring is Real: The Benefits of the Peer Tutor Experience for Future English Educators.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 8.2 (Spring 2008): 327-347.

•  Co-editor (with Professors Jill P. May and Christine King) of a new online journal, First Opinions, Second Reactions: Purdue University Sponsored Reviews of Recent Children’s and Young Adult Literature published by Purdue University Press.  The first issue focusing on “International Children’s and Young Adult Literature” is available at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/fosr/.

• Janet Alsup and Lisa Schade Eckert, “Introduction,” English education special issue of The Writing Instructor, themed “Composition Studies, The Next Generation: Teaching and Mentoring New Composition Teachers” (Fall 2007): URL:http://www.writinginstructor.com/englished2007. 

• "The State of English Education and a Vision for Its Future: A Call to Arms," co-authored with Janet Emig, Gordon Pradl, Robert Tremmel, and Robert Yagelski. English Education 38.4 (July, 2006): 278-294.
  
  
• "Rethinking the Meaning of Difference: Contemporary Challenges for Researchers and Practitioners in Literacy and Language Education," co-authored with Lisa Schade Eckert, Jennifer D. Turner, and Christian Knoeller.  Reading Research Quarterly 41.2 (April, May, June 2006): 274-291.
  
  
• "Teachers as People." Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice. 18.1 (Spring 2005): 19-24.
  
  
• "Protean Subjectivities: Qualitative Research and the Inclusion of the Personal." Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis, Eds. Sid Dobrin and Stephen Brown. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. 219-240.
  
  
• "English Education Students and Professional Identity Development: Using Narrative and Metaphor to Challenge Pre-Existing Ideologies." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 3.2 (Spring 2003): 277-280.

Courses Taught

ENGL 391	Composition for Teachers
EDCI 422	Teaching English in the Secondary School
EDCI 434	Teaching English in the Junior High/Middle School
ENGL 492	Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
EDCI 498F	Seminar for English Education Student Teachers
EDCI 551	Young Adult Literature
EDCI 613	Seminar in English Education

Professional Experience

2005-present	Associate Professor of English Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2000-2005	Assistant Professor of English Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1996-2000	Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Missouri-Columbia
1990-1996	High School English language arts teacher, South Callaway RII High School, Mokane, MO
1989-1990	Middle and High School English language arts teacher, New Bloomfield Public Schools, New Bloomfield, MO