Joining the Warner
School faculty in 2003, Mary Jane Curry teaches courses in teaching
English as a second language, foreign language teacher preparation,
literacy, academic writing, and qualitative research methods.
From 2000 until 2003 she was a research fellow at the Open University
Centre for Language and Communications at Milton Keynes, U.K.,
conducting funded research in two areas: 1) the English academic
writing and publishing of non-native English-speaking European
scholars; and 2) the academic literacy experiences of non-traditional
UK students taking distance access courses taught over the telephone.
She continues to work on these projects as well as publishing from her dissertation research on immigrant community college students learning academic
writing.
She is the co-author of Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit
for Higher Education (Routledge, 2002) and has written
articles, reviews and book chapters on teaching English as
a second language, the experiences of immigrant students learning
English writing at the community college and her current research
in second language literacy. Curry was a content editor for
The Newbury House Dictionary of American English (Heinle
& Heinle, 1996) and was a freelance editor whose clients
included Beacon Press and Sage Publications.
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison (curriculum
and instruction)
M.A., University of Massachusetts – Boston (teaching
English as a second language)
