Kelly WissmanAssistant Professor
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About Kelly WissmanPhD, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Kelly Wissman received her Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Prior to completing her doctorate, she held various and often overlapping roles as an educator, qualitative researcher, and after school program facilitator. Her dissertation analyzes the literacy and artistic practices of young women enrolled in a writing and photography course that she co-constructed and co-researched with the students. In 2006, she was awarded the Selma Greenberg Dissertation Award from the Research on Women and Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Wissman’s research interests include literacies and literature in the lives of urban youth, gender and education, photography and literacy, and out-of-school literacies. She shares a complementary interest in feminist approaches to the teaching and theorizing of children’s and young adult literature. Supported by a grant from the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation, she has formed an inquiry group of middle and high school teachers to explore how adolescents’ out-of-school literacies could be used as resources to inform curriculum and pedagogy. Dr. Wissman teaches Literature for Reading Programs (ERDG 504), Practicum in Literacy Teaching and Learning, 5-12 (ERDG 605), and Literacy in Society (ERDG 610).
Publications Wissman, K. (2008). “This is what I see”: (Re) envisioning photography as a social practice. In M. Hill & L.Vasudevan (Eds.), Media, learning, and sites of possibility (pp. 13-45). New York: Peter Lang. Wissman, K. (2007). “Making a way”: Young women using literacy and language to resist the politics of silencing. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 51 (4), 340-349. Wissman, K. (2007). “Writing will keep you free”: Allusions to and recreations of the fairy tale heroine in The House on Mango Street. Children’s Literature in Education, 38 (1), 17-34. Wissman, K. (2003). “Can't let it all go unsaid”: Sistahs reading, writing, and photographing their lives. Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2 (1). Available: http://www.urbanedjournal.org/archive/Issue3/notes/notes0006.html |
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