Reading and Language Arts
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Our faculty represent a diverse range of expertise and experience, from reading in preschool, elementary, middle-school, and secondary-school settings to literacy in college and the workplace. The faculty of the Reading and Language Arts Center publish frequently in the major literacy and special education journals. Several have written and edited major textbooks. Faculty members serve on numerous editorial boards including: Language Arts; The Reading Teacher; Journal of Literacy Research; Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy; Reading Research Quarterly; Discourse Processes; Research in the Teaching of English; Journal of Educational Psychology; Elementary School Journal; Journal of Learning Disabilities; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools; and the Learning Disabilities Quarterly.
Faculty
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Benita Blachman, Ph.D.
Trustee Professor
315-443-9644
blachman@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1981
Benita Blachman, Trustee Professor of Education and Psychology, is a specialist in reading and learning disabilities. Her research, supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), focuses on factors that predict reading achievement and on early intervention to prevent reading failure. She recently completed an investigation of the influence of intensive reading instruction on patterns of brain activation in young poor readers, reporting the results in the scientific journals Biological Psychiatry and the Journal of Educational Psychology. She is the author of the popular, evidence-based program for kindergarten children titled Road to the Code: A Phonological Awareness Program for Young Children. Her research was widely cited in the National Reading Panel Report (2000) that helped to establish an evidence-based model for early reading intervention. She serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Educational Psychology and Scientific Studies of Reading and on the scientific advisory board for the National Dyslexia Research Foundation.
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Marlene Blumin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Reading and Language Arts and Director, University Study Skills Program
315-443-5185
mfblumin@syr.edu
Also Director of University Study Skills Program.
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Rachel Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
315-443-5672
rfbrown@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Maryland 1994
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Kelly Chandler-Olcott Ed.D.
Associate Professor
English Education
315-443-5183
kpchandl@syr.edu
Kelly Chandler-Olcott is an associate professor in
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Marcelle Haddix, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
315-443-4755
mhaddix@syr.edu
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Kathleen Hinchman, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-5186
kahinchm@syr.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1985
Kathleen A. Hinchman is a Professor and Chair of the Reading and Language Arts Center at Syracuse University. Once a middle school teacher, she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in childhood and adolescent literacy. Her research explores youths’ and teachers’ perspectives toward literacy. She has published in many journals and co-authored or edited such texts as Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives and Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Reading. She has served as President of the Central New York Reading Council and the New York State Reading Association, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Reading Conference, which she will serve as President in 2009.
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Kristiina Montero, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Inclusive Elementary & Special Education
315-443-5182
mkmonter@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Georgia 2004
As a language arts expert, Montero brings the unique talent of oral and written fluency in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Finnish) to the School of Education. Montero completed her undergraduate work in France and Canada. She holds a Ph.D. degree in reading education from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
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Zaline Makini Roy-Campbell
Associate Professor
315-443-8194
zmroycam@syr.edu
Dr. Zaline M. Roy-Campbell has taught in Uganda, Jamaica, England, Tanzania, Zimbabwe as well as in the United States. Since 2003, she has been on the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her teaching focuses on the impact of culture on teaching and learning and her research focuses on how penetrate the barriers to the academic success of disenfranchised students. She is interested in questions of what counts as knowledge that is to be valued and how to shift the source locus of that knowledge. Her current research interests include language and literacy issues in education, preparing effective teachers of English language learners and the intersections between knowledge production and language of instruction.
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Louise C. Wilkinson, Ed.D.
Distinguished Professor of Education, Psychology and Communication Sciences
315-443-7677
lwilkin@syr.edu
Ed.D. Harvard Graduate School of Education
Louise Wilkinson has focused her scholarship on language and literacy learning among school-age children. An internationally-recognized leader in education, Wilkinson is best known for her extensive research on children's language and literacy learning and has been published in 125 articles, chapters and volumes. She co-authored Communicating for Learning (1991), edited Communicating in the Classroom (1982); and co-edited: The Social Context of Instruction (1984), Gender Influences in Classroom Interaction (1985), The Integrated Language Arts (1994), Language and Literacy Learning in Schools (2004), and Literacy Leadership in Urban Teacher Education (in press). She teaches courses on literacy learning for first/second English language learners and on comparative urban teacher education. She has served on the editorial boards of major research journals and on the advisory/governing boards of: The
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Dr. Harold L. Herber
Professor Emeritus
315-443-4755
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Susan Hynds Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
315-443-4755
sdhynds@syr.edu