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Anna-Ruth Allen joins the Warner School faculty in 2005 with teaching and research interests in youth’s language and literacy practices in and out of school. She teaches courses in literacy, adolescent development and youth culture, and academic writing.
Allen’s research is grounded in sociocultural and critical theories of literacy, learning, and identity, and focuses on how language and literacy practices mediate adolescents’ constructions of identity. These interests grew out of her experience working with adolescents in out-of-school contexts such as afterschool programs. Her dissertation research is an ethnographic study of youth’s identification processes in one high school implementing a federally-funded reform. The project combines case studies of youth with analyses of institutional and discursive practices to trace the multiple ways that youth are positioned in and by schools.
Allen has co-authored articles in Linguistics & Education (with James Paul Gee and Katie Clinton) and Teaching and Teacher Education (with Mary Louise Gomez and Katie Clinton). She also published a book review in Mind, Culture and Activity.
As a graduate student, Allen was awarded a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2003) and the Arvil S. Barr Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin (2002).
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