Dr. Anne Haas Dyson - ahdyson@illinois
My major research interests are related to the social and cultural processes of schooling and literacy, including: ethnographies of childhood and, more broadly, of the experiential qualities of contemporary schooling for all participants and the development of childhood cultures, especially the role of popular culture in that development, with a particular interest in city kids and the development and use of written language in contemporary childhoods and cross-culturally the politics of identity and language in school, including the role of English variants, like African American Language. My current research centers on the intersection of literacy and childhoods. The latter is a relatively new interdisciplinary field which focuses on both how societies conceive of and arrange for “childhoods” and, also, on how children themselves act as agents in the construction of their own childhoods.
Educational Background
Key Professional Appointments
My major research interests are related to the social and cultural processes of schooling and literacy, including: ethnographies of childhood and, more broadly, of the experiential qualities of contemporary schooling for all participants and the development of childhood cultures, especially the role of popular culture in that development, with a particular interest in city kids and the development and use of written language in contemporary childhoods and cross-culturally the politics of identity and language in school, including the role of English variants, like African American Language. My current research centers on the intersection of literacy and childhoods. The latter is a relatively new interdisciplinary field which focuses on both how societies conceive of and arrange for “childhoods” and, also, on how children themselves act as agents in the construction of their own childhoods.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Education, University of Texas, Austin, 1981
- M.Ed., Education, University of Texas, Austin, 1976
- B.S., Elementary Education (concentration: English), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972
Key Professional Appointments
- Professor, EPOL, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 2011--
- Professor, C&I, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2011
- Professor, Department. of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, 2002-2006
- Professor, Division of Language, Literacy, & Culture, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-2002
- Associate Professor, Division of Language, Literacy, & Culture, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-1991
- Assistant Professor, Division of Language, Literacy, & Culture, University of California, Berkeley, 1985-1987
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Language, Literacy, & Culture, University of California, Berkeley, 1984-1985
- Graduate Faculty, Graduate School, University of Georgia, 1984-1985
- Assistant Professor, Department of Language Education, University of Georgia, 1981-1985