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Literacy and Language,
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University College of Education
Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education, Room 4108
100 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098 USA
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Janet Alsup, Ph.D. (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Associate Professor of English Education
Dr. Alsup teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in adolescent literacy pedagogy, research, and theory. Her research interests include secondary literature and writing pedagogies, adolescent literacies, young adult literature, narrative research, and the professional identity development of secondary English teachers.
E-mail: jalsup@sla.purdue.edu |
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Susan Britsch, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
Professor of Literacy and Language Education
Dr. Britsch teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in early literacy development and English Language Learning. Her research foci include children's nonfiction composing as a response to situational needs, the integration of literacy and science curricula, the original story-making of young children as a reflection of social stance, visual literacy, and children's design of multimodal discourse.
E-mail: sbritsch@purdue.edu |
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Beverly E. Cox, Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Associate Professor of Literacy & Language Education
Dr. Cox teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy pedagogy, research, and theory. Her theory and research interests are emergent and elementary literacy development and assessment, discourse structures (genre and register) and processes (cultural, social, and cognitive), functional linguistic theory, and the new literacies.
E-mail : bcox@purdue.edu
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Luciana de Oliveira, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis)
Assistant Professor of Literacy & Language Education
Dr. de Oliveira teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English Language Learning and educational linguistics. Her research interests include the challenges of academic language for English language learners in the content areas in secondary school, second language writing, and nonnative English-speaking professionals in TESOL.
E-mail: luciana@purdue.edu |
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Shannon Henderson, Ph.D. (Auburn University)
Clinical Assistant Professor of Literacy & Language Education
Dr. Henderson is interested in the instructional conversations of teachers, including preservice teachers, with elementary students to facilitate the comprehension of text and the use of transcript analysis to improve practice. She works with the Reading Recovery program in the Purdue Literacy Network Project.
E-mail: schender@purdue.edu. |
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Carol J. Hopkins, Ph.D. ( Purdue University)
Professor of Literacy & Language Education
Dr. Hopkins' research, teaching, and service activities are interrelated and directed toward preparing preservice and inservice teachers to teach reading to all children, but particularly those who experience difficulty learning to read. Her research focuses on identifying preservice teachers' beliefs as they prepare to work with children who are experiencing difficulty learning to read and then developing instructional strategies, such as infusing features of the Reading Recovery professional development model into her teaching, to help students confront these beliefs in their teaching practice.
E-mail: hopkinsc@purdue.edu
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Tara Star Johnson, Ph.D. ( University of Georgia)
Assistant Professor of English Education
Dr. Johnson is interested in the intersection among race, class, gender, and sexuality in education and in disrupting the Cartesian duality in education. Her research examines teacher-student relationships.
E-mail: tarastar@purdue.edu |
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Christian P. Knoeller, Ph.D. ( University of California at Berkeley)
Associate Professor of English Education
Professor Knoeller offers courses on pedagogical approaches for teaching writing and literature at middle and secondary school levels. He has taught high school and college English in Alaska , California , Oregon , and Wisconsin , working with a wide variety of students through public institutions and alternative schools as well as adult literacy and second language programs. In addition, he has been involved in extensive district curriculum development projects. He holds graduate degrees in creative writing and linguistics. At the University of California at Berkeley he worked at the National Center for the Study of Writing, the Bay Area Writing Project, and the National Writing Project. He regularly presents at regional and national conferences such as the National Council of Teachers of English and the NCTE Assembly for Research. His work on teaching appears in Literacy Instruction for Culturally Diverse Students (International Reading Association, 1998) and his book Voicing Ourselves: Whose Words We Use When We Talk about Books (State University of New York Press, 1998). In addition to research and scholarship in English education, Dr. Knoeller publishes poetry widely. His collection, Completing the Circle (2000) was awarded The Millennium Prize. His current research interests include Bakhtinian theory in educational research, classroom discourse analysis, teaching literature in conjunction with creative writing, and why historically teachers of English have been encouraged to write.
E-mail : Knoeller@purdue.edu |
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Sarah F. Mahurt, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Clinical Associate Professor of Literacy & Language Education
Dr. Mahurt is associate director of the Purdue Literacy Network Project and associate professor of Literacy and Language Education at Purdue University . In her 25 years as an educator in the United States and the Virgin Islands , Dr. Mahurt has worked as a teacher, reading specialist, and university professor. She has published articles on children's literature and teacher professional development. Dr. Mahurt has provided consulting services to schools and school districts, conducted numerous workshops with teachers and made presentations at international, national, and local conferences that focused on improving learning for both teachers and children. She recently taught in a first-grade classroom for a year to further develop as a teacher and to revitalize her understanding of children's literacy learning and the work of classroom teachers.
E-mail: mahurt@purdue.edu
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Jill P. May, M.S.L.S. (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Professor of Literacy & Language Education
Professor May teaches undergraduate and graduate courses concerning children's media, including literature and film, and book illustration. Her research is concentrated in two areas: (a) children's literature and child culture and (b) the history of the illustrated book.
E-mail: jillmay@purdue.edu |
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Maribeth Cassidy Schmitt, Ph.D. ( Purdue University)
Clinical Professor of Literacy and Language Education
Dr. Schmitt is interested in metacognitive theory and how it is applied in classroom learning and instructional materials. Also concerned with early detection and intervention for the prevention of literacy difficulties, Dr. Schmitt is the University Trainer and Director of the Indiana Reading Recovery Program. She has been involved in research regarding pre-service teacher's beliefs about children experiencing difficulty in learning to read and the infusion of features of the Reading Recovery professional development model into undergraduate teacher education.
E-mail:mschmitt@purdue.edu
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Melanie Shoffner, Ph.D. ( University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Assistant Professor of English Education
Dr. Shoffner teaches courses in secondary English methods and the teaching of literature. Her research interests include reflective practice and the use of technology in reflection; secondary English language arts, with an emphasis on the teaching of literature; teacher education, with an emphasis on the construction of the secondary English teacher; and qualitative research methods
E-mail: shoffner@purdue.edu |
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