Anne DiPardo

In our teacher-education program, Anne DiPardo regularly offers the MA Seminar in English Education and Language and Learning; she also teaches elective courses in writing about education, observational research in classroom settings, literacy research, and issues in teachers' professional lives. She is the author of A Kind of Passport: A Basic Writing Adjunct Program and the Challenge of Student Diversity (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993), and Teaching in Common: Challenges to Joint Work in Classrooms and Schools (NY: Teachers College Press/NCTE, 1999); she has also published in such journals as Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Educational Leadership, Written Communication, Reading Research Quarterly, Review of Educational Research, English Education, and Theory and Research in Social Education. She is a past recipient of the NCTE/CEE Richard A. Meade Award for outstanding research in English education, the NCTE Promising Researcher Award, the National Writing Centers Outstanding Scholarship Award, and a National Academy of Education Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Anne is currently co-editor (along with Melanie Sperling) of NCTE's empirical journal, Research in the Teaching of English.

Link to course web sites:

• http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/masem
• http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/qualres