Jennifer McCormick

Education

Ph.D., English Education, New York University, 1997
BA, History, Hamilton College, 1981

Research Interests

My research centers on adolescent literacy, the relationship between school-based literacy and youth culture, the relationship between associative and linear thought. I am specifically interested in the aesthetic decisions young people make when producing poetry and multi media texts, and the kinds of thinking that emerge with these texts.

Current Academic Year Courses

Fall 2003:
ED 405A/5&9 Teaching in Urban Schools: Cultural Identity (Open to TEP students only)
ED 406/3 Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in American Education (Open to TEP students only)

Winter 2004
Not Scheduled to Teach

Spring 2004
ED 181D The Teaching Profession TR 11:00-1:00
ED 190 Community Service MW 1:00-3:00

Recent Publications

2004. Writing in the Asylum: Young Women Create Sanctuary Through Poetry. Teachers College Press.

2003. McCormick, Jennifer. "Drag Me to the Asylum: Disguising and Asserting

Identities in an Urban School." The Urban Review, vol. 35, Number 2.

2002. McCormick, Jennifer. "The Table in the Desert: Calling Up Images through Surrealist Poetry." Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, vol. 18, Number 1.

2000. McCormick, Jennifer. "Aesthetic Safety Zones: Surveillance and Sanctuary in Poetry by Young Women," in Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, eds., Construction Sites (Teachers College Press).