About Jolene Malavasic …

PhD, Syracuse University

Dr. Jolene Malavasic is proud to be joining the Reading Department faculty. She spent the past two years as an Assistant Professor in the Literacy Department at SUNY Cortland. Prior to that she worked at the Baldwinsville School District as a middle school reading specialist. While in Baldwinsville Jolene was awarded a teacher as researcher grant from the International Reading Association for her project titled: “Effective Ingredients for Academic Intervention,” a program she developed to provide intensive push-in and pull-out services for struggling adolescent literacy learners.

Dr. Malavasic received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University where she also taught in the reading clinic, secondary literacy courses, and supervised student teachers in the secondary English Education program. Her research interests include adolescent friendships and identity construction, along with the multiple ways they intersect with the literacies adolescents enact both in and outside of the school setting.

Dr. Malavasic has given presentations for many organizations including The Central New York Reading Council for which she is a past president, The New York State Reading Association, The National Reading Conference, The American Reading Forum, and The International Reading Association.

Jolene will be teaching the following courses in Fall, 2008:

ERDG 500: Introduction to Literacy Teaching and Learning Birth–6

ERDG 615: Teaching Writing Birth–6

Publications:

Malavasic, J. (2008). “A life within a life”: Adolescent friendship and literacy. NY: Verlag.