Ph.D., Curriculum
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education
June, 1995

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts
University of California, Los Angeles
Cum Laude, March 1981

Certificate, French Language and Culture
Université Paul Valery
Montpellier, France
September, 1975 to 1977

Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
University of Rochester
November 2006

Professor
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
University of Rochester
May 2006

Associate Professor
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
University of Rochester
January 2000 to 2006

Chair, Teaching, Curriculum, and Change
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
University of Rochester
January 2000 to present

Assistant Professor
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
University of Rochester
July 1995 to January 2000

Research Assistant, Prof. Kris Gutierrez
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Los Angeles
June 1992 to June 1995

Guest Lecturer, Teacher Education Lab
University of California, Los Angeles
Fall 1993 to Fall 1994

Research Assistant, Prof. Alfredo Artiles
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Los Angeles
January 1993 to August 1993

Teacher/Director
La Playa Cooperative Nursery School
September 1990 to August 1993

Substitute Teacher, Elementary
Los Angeles Unified School District
September 1989 to June 1990

Assistant Art Director/Ceramics Teacher
Exceptional Children's Foundation
September 1981 to July 1985

NCTE Research Foundation. Teachers taking action: Collaborative inquiry into classroom practice. ($15,000) 2006-2007

Shoolman Foundation. Rethinking English: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban High School Classrooms. ($13,500). 2006-2007

Teacher/Leader Quality Partnerships Program Grant. From Elementary to Secondary: Intergrating Mathematics and Literacy Professional Development (with Judi Fonzi). (ELA portion $243,000).
2003-2008

Title II -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Higher Education Professional Development Program
Building a Professional Learning Community: Sustaining a Professional Development School ($300,000). Updated funding amount.
2001-2005

Title II -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Higher Education Professional Development Program
Building a Professional Learning Community: Sustaining a Professional Development School ($15,000).
2001

Title II -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Higher Education Professional Development Program
Building a Professional Learning Community: Building a Professional Development School ($5770).
2000

Title II -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Higher Education Professional Development Program
Building a Professional Learning Community: University/School Collaboration to Support the Teaching and Learning of Language Arts in Elementary School ($222,500).
1999 - 2004

The Betty Pool Award
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
University of Rochester
May, 1999

Spencer Small Grant
Informing the debate over whole language and phonics pedagogies: An ethnographic study of situated language and literacy practices. ($12,000)
October, 1996 to June, 1997

University of California, Los Angeles
Departmental Merit Based Fellowship, 1993-95

Larson, J. & Gutierrez, K. (in press). A conversation about expansive learning and transformative spaces. Language Arts.

Larson, J. (in press). New literacy studies. In C. Compton-Lilly (Ed.). Breaking the silence: Learning in social and cultural  worlds. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Larson, J. & Rios Aguilar, C. (2007). Speaking truth to policy. Language Arts 84(5), 456-464.

Larson, J. (2006). Multiliteracies, Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.  Theory into Practice, Special Issue edited by David Bloome and Peter Paul. New Jersey: Erlbaum.

Larson, J. & Marsh, J. (2005). Making literacy real: Theories and practices in learning and teaching. London: Sage.

Larson, J. (2005). Breaching the classroom walls: Literacy learning across time and space in an elementary school in the United States. In B. Street (Ed.). Literacies across educational contexts, pp. 84-101. Philadelphia: Caslon Press.

Larson, J. & Gatto, L. (2004). Tactical underlife: Understanding students’ perspectives. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 4(1), 11-41.

Larson, J. & Peterson, S.M. (2003). Talk and discourse in formal learning settings. In N. Hall, J. Larson, & J. Marsh (Eds.). Handbook of Research in Early Childhood Literacy, pp. 301-314. London: Sage/Paul Chapman Publishing

Hall, N., Larson, J., & Marsh, J. (Eds.) (2003). Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy. London: Sage/Paul Chapman Publishing.

Larson, J. (2003). Negotiating race in classroom research: Tensions and possibilities. In S. Greene & D. Abt-Perkins (Eds.). Literacy research for racial understanding, pp. 89-106. New York: Teachers College Press.

Larson, J. (2002). Packaging process: Consequences of commodified pedagogy on students’ participation in literacy events. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, (20)1, 65-95.

Larson, J. (Ed.) (2001). Literacy as snake oil: Beyond the quick fix. New York: Lang. Second Edition due in fall 2007

Irvine, P.D. & Larson, J. (2001). Literacy packages in practice: Constructing academic disadvantage. In J. Larson (Ed.), Literacy as snake oil: Beyond the quick fix. New York: Lang.

Larson, J. & Maier, M. (2000). Co-authoring classroom texts: Shifting participant roles in writing activity. Research in the Teaching of English, 34, 468-498.

Larson, J. (1999). Analyzing participation frameworks in kindergarten writing activity: The role of overhearer in learning to write. Written Communication, 16(2), 225-257.

Larson, J. & Irvine, P.D. (1999). “We call him Dr. King”: Reciprocal distancing in urban classrooms. Language Arts, 76(5), 393-400.

Larson, J. (1997). Indexing instruction: The social construction of the participation framework in Kindergarten journal writing activity. Discourse and Society, 8(4), 501-521.

Larson, J. (1997). Challenging autonomous models of literacy: Street’s call to action. Linguistics and Education, 8(4), 439-445.

Larson, J. (1997). Connecting language and literacy learning: First graders learning to write in a whole language classroom. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 8(2), 147-162.

Larson, J. & Pope, C. (1997). Language arts textbook project: A collaboration with the Rochester City School District. Research Report. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (1996). The participation framework as a mediating tool in kindergarten journal writing activity. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 7(1), 135-151.

Larson, J. (1995). Talk matters: Knowledge distribution among novice writers in kindergarten. Linguistics and Education, 7(4), 277-302.

Gutierrez, K., Rymes, B. & Larson, J. (1995). Script, counterscript and underlife in the classroom: James Brown versus Brown v. The Board of Education. Harvard Educational Review, 65(3), 445-471.

Gutierrez, K., Larson, J. & Kreuter, B. (1995). Cultural tensions in the scripted classroom: The value of the subjugated perspective. Urban Education, 29 (4), 410-442.

Gutierrez, K. & Larson, J. (1994). Language borders: Recitation as hegemonic discourse. International Journal of Educational Reform, 3 (1), 22-36.

Larson, J. (1993). Critical feminist pedagogy. Voices, 2 (3), 1-5.

Larson, J. (1992). Language. Voices, 1(1), 5-9.

VIDEO AND FILM

Smith, D. & Larson, J. (in production). Slam High. Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. University of Rochester.

Smith, D., Larson, J., & Gatto, L. (2006). A Life Outside. Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. University of Rochester.

• Official Selection, Queens International Film Festival.  November, 2006

Smith, D. & Larson, J. (2004).  Unpacking Effective Literacy Practice.  Center for Professional Development and Education Reform. University of Rochester.

Larson, J., Allen, A.R., Osborn, D. (forthcoming). Curriculum and the publishing industry. In B. McGraw, E. Baker, & P. Peterson (Eds). International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier.

Larson, J. & O’Connor, K. (in preparation). Narrative spaces: Designing literacies across contexts. In A. Johnson & M. Souto-Manning (Eds.). Narratives by design: Creating new social futures for teachers and learners.

Larson, J. (2007, April). Community ethnographies: Investigations into cultural and historical practices as resources for agency. Symposium Chair at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Ares, N., O’Connor, K., Larson, J., & Carlisle, J. (2007, April). Getting started: First stages of community change and development. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Larson, J. (2007, April). Literacy through the eyes of the child. Invited Keynote Address. RAEYC Annual Continuity Conference. Rochester, NY.

Larson, J. (2007, February). What Counts as Literacy? Living Literacies of the Body and Image. Featured researcher at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research annual mid-winter conference. Nashville, Tennessee.

Larson, J. (2006, November). Literacy beyond the basics. Mayor’s Literacy Summit. Rochester, NY.

Larson, J. (2006, November). Writing as social practice: Disappearing endpoints. Symposium paper at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English.  Nashville, Tennessee.

Larson, J. (2006, November). Learning to teach writing through professional development communities. Symposium co-chair at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English. Nashville, Tennessee.

Larson, J., Gatto, L., & Perhamus, L. (2006, April). Complex literacies: Videoconferences as heterotopic spaces. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, California.

Larson, J. (2006, April). Theorizing literacy and the sociality of space: Different practices, contexts, and contents. Session Chair. Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, California.

Larson, J. & Rex, L. (2005, November). Research Roundtables. Session Co-Chair at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Larson, J. (2005, July). Disrupting the in/out of school binary: Literacy as social practice. Paper presented at the 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, hosted by the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Madison, Wisconsin.

Larson, J. (2005, April). Spatialing Literacy Practice: Studies of spatial, critical, and digital literacies across contexts.  Session Chair and Presenter.  Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Montreal, Canada.

Larson, J. (2005, April). Toward an anti-racist ethnography of literacy teaching and learning. Presenter. Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Montreal, Canada.

Larson, J. (2004, November). Signifying race: The relevance of race for literacy research and teaching.  Invited discussant at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English.  Indianapolis, Indiana.

Larson, J. (2004, April). Breaching the classroom walls: Field trips as mediating contexts for literacy learning.  Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.  San Diego, CA.

Larson, J. (2004, April).  Finding the social in social context. Invited Discussant. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.  San Diego, CA.

Larson, J. (2004, February). Invited speaker.  New Literacy Studies and Classroom Practice. National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research annual mid-winter conference.  San Francisco, California.

Larson, J. (2003, November). The social responsibilities of the literacy researcher. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English. San Francisco, California.

Larson, J. & Gatto, L. (2003, April). Language, power, and multiple literacies: Insights into urban teaching. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Larson, J., Gatto, L., Jacobs, G. (2002, November). Perceptions, politics, and pedagogy: Examing children’s understanding of language, power, and literacies. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English. Atlanta, Georgia.

Larson, J. (2002, August). Foundations for Literacy: Constructing meaningful contexts for learning. Invited keynote for Greece Central School District Literacy Conference. Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (2002, May). Discursive positioning in classroom interaction: Making visible normalized practices. Invited Keynote Speaker. Working Conference on the Analysis of Videotape Data of Classroom Life. Nashville, Tennessee.

Jacobs, G., Gatto, L., Larson, J. (2002, April). Identity, Teaching, and Research: One Teacher's Negotiation of a New Identity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, Lousiana.

Larson, J. (2001, November). Globalization, What is it?: Conversations on globalization, cultural politics, schools, and literacy lessons. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English. Baltimore, Maryland.

Larson, J. (2001, November). Problems and possibilities: Teachers researching their own classrooms. Session chair at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English. Baltimore, Maryland.

Larson, J. (2001, April). Constructing a professional learning community: First year conversations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Seattle, Washington.

Larson, J. & Irvine, P.D. (2001, March). Urban reading reform: Co-constructing academic disadvantage. Paper presented at the annual Ethnography in Education conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Larson, J. (2000, April). Writing inside or outside the margins: Access to meaningful participation in literacy events in the primary grades. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Larson, J. (2000, February). Understanding language use in the classroom. Invited Speaker. Rochester City School District. Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (1999, August). Whole language: Necessary but not sufficient. With G. Coles and P. Irvine. Symposium presented at the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English Whole Language Umbrella Conference. Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (1999, April). Literacy learning in an urban kindergarten: Struggling for access. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Montreal, Canada.

Irvine, P.D. & Larson, J. (1999, April). Constructing social distance in classroom discourse: Analysis of an urban reading reform effort. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Montreal, Canada.

Larson, J. (1999, March). Literacy and your child. Invited Speaker. Asbury Day Care. Rochester, New York.

Irvine, P.D. & Larson, J. (1998, November). Learning to fail: Reading practices in urban classrooms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of the Teachers of English. Nashville, Tennessee.

Larson, J. (1998, April). The non-debate between whole language and phonics: Data from a first grade classroom. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, California.

Larson, J. & Irvine, P.D. (1998, April). The construction of failure: A study of urban reading reform. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, California.

Larson, J. (1998, April). Literacy learning in elementary school. From research to application: A seminar for education. Invited speaker. Strong Museum. Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (1997, May). Connecting language and literacy learning: First graders learning to write in a whole language classroom. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture. University of California, Los Angeles.

Larson, J. & Peckham, N.N. (1997, March). Literacy learning in elementary school classrooms: Rhetoric or reality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Larson, J. (1997, February). Talk and writing: The organization of interaction in kindergarten journal writing activity. Invited speaker. 13th Annual Invitational Conference for the Bilingual Education Technical Assistance Committee. Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (1996, November). A first look: Informing the debate over Whole Language and Phonics pedagogies. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Researching Language and Social Practice: Microanalysis of Everyday Life. Los Angeles, California.

Larson, J. (1996, May). Building a participation theory of writing. Talk presented at Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Larson, J. (1996, April). The role of the participation framework in learning to write: Redefining central participation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. New York, New York.

Larson, J. (1996, April). “The social construction of literacy in a kindergarten classroom,” Literacy: The myth of access to democracy (with Patricia Irvine and Gerald Coles). Symposium presented at the 1996 World Conference on Literacy. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Larson, J. (1996, March). “Indexing instruction: The social construction of the participation framework in kindergarten journal writing activity.” Indexicals in school discourse communities: Interactional effects and sociocognitive consequences. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Chicago, Illinois.

Larson, J. (1995, November). Community construction of text: The value of talk among novice writers. Workshop at the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English. San Diego, California.

Irvine, P.D., Crichlow, W., Hursh, D., & Larson, J. (1995, November). Engendering feminist pedagogy. Research Panel for the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women’s Studies. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Larson, J. (1995, October). Text as a community construction: The value of talk among novice writers. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Researching Language and Social Practice: Microanalysis of Everyday Life. Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Larson, J. (1995, May). The participation framework as a mediating tool in kindergarten journal writing activity. The First UCLA Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture. University of California, Los Angeles.

Gutierrez, K., Larson, J. & Stone, L. (1995, April). Social practice: Classroom literacy activities. Paper presented at the International Reading Association Impact II Conference. Anaheim, California.

Larson, J. (1995, April). Talk matters: The role of pivot in the distribution of literacy knowledge among novice writers. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, California.

Larson, J. (1995, February). Talk matters: The organization of interaction in kindergarten journal writing activity. Paper presented at a meeting of Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Larson, J. (1994, October). Talk and writing: Changing roles among novice writers in kindergarten writing activity. Paper presented at the annual Conference on Researching Language and Social Practice: Microanalysis of Everyday Life. University of California, Santa Barbara.

Larson, J. (1994, April). In the beginning: Knowledge distribution among novice writers. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Larson, J. (1993, November). “First you gotta make wind”: Implementing literacy activities in the early childhood classroom. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Anaheim, California.

Larson, J. (1993, May). “First you gotta make wind”: A study of emergent literacy. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Graduate Students Association in Education. University of California, Los Angeles.

American Anthropology Association

American Educational Research Association

SIG Writing and Literacies

SIG Language and Social Processes

Division G: Social Context of Education

National Council of Teachers of English

National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research

International Reading Association

National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy

National Reading Conference

NCTE Standing Committee on Research

2007-2010

Editorial Board

Reading Research Quarterly

2006-2008

Tenure Case Reviewer (External)

The Ohio State University

2006

Co-Chair

AERA, Division G Social Context of Education: Section 2 Multicultural Contexts of Education Within and Across Subject Areas

2006-2007

Editorial Board

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

2005-present

Secretary

National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy

2005-2008

Reviewer

American Educational Research Journal

2005-2008

Invited Special Issue Editorial Board
Research in the Teaching of English
2005

Invited Book Reviewer (post publication)
“Discourse analysis and the study of classroom language and literacy events: A microethnographic perspective” for Linguistics and Education
2005

Tenure Case Reviewer (External)
Teachers College, Columbia University
2004

Peer Book Reviewer (referee prior to publication)
Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education
Erlbaum
2004

NCTE Government Relations Committee
2003

NCTE Standing Committee on Research
2002 – 2005

Chair, NCTE Promising Researcher Award Committee
2002 – 2005

External Evaluator, PhD Dissertation
University of Queensland, Australia
2003, 2004

Editorial Advisory Board
American Educational Research Journal
Social and Institutional Analysis Section
Editor, Linda McNeil
2000-present

Co-Chair
National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research
2001-2003

Chair
AERA SIG Language and Social Processes
2001-2003

Chair
AERA SIG Writing and Literacies
2003-2005

Program Chair
AERA SIG Writing and Literacies
2001-2003

Publications Director (Executive Committee)
National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research
1998-2000

Program Chair
AERA SIG Language and Social Processes
1999-2001

Treasurer
AERA SIG Writing and Literacies
1999-2001

Treasurer
AERA SIG Language and Social Processes
1998-1999

Guest Reviewer
Urban Education, 2002

Guest Reviewer
Research in the Teaching of English

Guest Reviewer
Linguistics and Education, 1996, 1999, 2003

Guest Reviewer
Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994-1998

Assistant Editor
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1994-95
Editor, Marv Alkin; Associate Editor, Jeannie Oakes

Co-Organizer, Graduate Students’ Association in Education Annual Conference
Prof. Peter McLaren, Faculty Sponsor
University of California, Los Angeles
September, 1994 to June, 1995

Assistant to Chair, AERA Writing SIG
1994 & 1995 AERA Annual Conferences
August 1993 to April, 1995

Editorial Board
Voices, 1991 to 1995

Reviewer
AERA Division G, 1997 to present

Reviewer
AERA Writing SIG, 1993 to present

University committees

Faculty Diversity Officer (Warner representative)

University of Rochester, 2007-present

Chair, Tenure Committee

University of Rochester, 2007

Convener, Rochester Children’s Zone Research Consortium

2006-present

Chair, Social Studies Education and Early Childhood Education Search Committees

Chair, Research Methods Course Task Force

University of Rochester, 2004-2005

Chair, Scandling Lecture Series Task Force

University of Rochester, 2004-2005

Chair, Literacies and Education Search Committee

University of Rochester, 2004-2005

Chair, Reappointment Committee
University of Rochester, 2003-2004, 2004-2005

Chair, Student Teaching Task Force
2003-2004

Chair, Reappointment Committee
University of Rochester, 2002-2003, 2004-2005

Chair, Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum, Math, TESOL/FL, and Inclusion Search Committees
University of Rochester, 2002-2003

Tenure Review Committee
University of Rochester, 2002

Chair, Math, Science, and Special Education Search Committee
University of Rochester, 2001-2002

Dean’s Search Committee
University of Rochester, 2000-2001

Chair, Secondary English Search Committee
University of Rochester, Spring, 2001

Dean's Advisory Committee
University of Rochester, 2000-present

Greece Steering Committee
University of Rochester/Greece Central School District, 2000-present

Chair, Teaching and Curriculum Faculty Reappointment Committee
University of Rochester, 2000

Center for Professional Development and Education Reform Search Committee
University of Rochester, 2000-2001

Warner School/Department of English Collaborative Task Force
University of Rochester, 2000-2001

Associate, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies
University of Rochester, 2000-present

Research Subjects Review Board (BASS)
University of Rochester, 1997-2004

Reregistration Task Force
University of Rochester, 1999-2001

Academic Policy Committee
University of Rochester, 1996-00
Chair, 1999-2000

Interdisciplinary Cluster
University of Rochester, 1996-97

Executive Committee
Center for Language, Literacy, and Societal Studies
University of Rochester, 1995-97

Warner School Human Subjects Review Committee
University of Rochester, 1995-96
Chair, 1996

Secondary English Search Committee
University of Rochester, Fall, 1996

Community service
Rochester Children’s Zone Project, 2006-present

Hosted Brian Street at Professional Development Day in Greece Central School District, 2003

Keynote Speaker for Greece Central School District Literacy Conference, 2002

Board of Directors, Asbury Day Care, 1999-2001

Collaboration with School 29, Rochester City School District, 1998-99.

Reading Advisory Committee, Rochester City School District, 1996-97.

Language Arts Textbook Project: A Collaboration with the Rochester City School District,
1996-97

Genesee Valley Research and Reform Collaborative, 1995-2000

Task Force, Goal #4: Elementary Facilities, Culver City Unified School District, 1994-95

ED 400 Topics in Teaching and Schooling
EDU 498 Literacy Learning as Social Practice
EDU 427 Theory and Practice in Teaching and Learning of Literacy in Elementary Schools
EDU 437 Student Teaching in the Primary Grades
EDU 442 Race, Class, and Gender in American Education
ED 574 Curriculum, Culture, and Society
ED 507 Qualitative Research Methods
ED527 Advanced Qualitative Methods
ED 588 Discourse Analysis
ED 509 Doctoral Core I and II
EDU 526 Theory and Research on Curriculum and Change