Contact Information

N246 Lindquist Center

Teaching and Learning

College of Education

The University of Iowa

Iowa City IA 52242 USA

MW 2-4 or by appointment

• Ed.D. (1991), University of California at Berkeley, Language & Literacy Education
• M.A. (1977), U.C.L.A., English
• B.A. (1976), California State University at Northridge, English

• Teaching and Learning
• Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph.D. program
• Secondary English Education Teacher Preparation Program

• Faculty position at the University of Iowa since 1991
• Previously taught freshman composition and basic writing in the California State University system; business writing, composition, and literature courses in community colleges; and taught 10th grade English at a private high school.

• Member, Executive Committee, NCTE Conference on English Education.
• Co-Editor, Research in the Teaching of English (with Melanie Sperling), 2003-2008.
• Chair, NCTE Promising Researcher Award Committee, 1998-2000.
• Member, NCTE Standing Committee on Research, 1996-1999; ex officio, 2003-8.
• Chair, NCTE Assembly for Research, 1997; member of AR Executive Board, 1998-2001.
• Fellow, National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy (member since 1992).

• NCTE/CEL English Leadership Quarterly Best Article of the Year Award, for "Learning for Our Lives: Sustaining the Wise Child in an Era of High-Stakes Testing," 2005.
• National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation Grant Recipient, 1990-1991, 1993-1994, and 2000-2001.
• NCTE/CEE Richard A. Meade Award, for Teaching in Common: Challenges to Joint Work in Classrooms and Schools, 2000.
• National Academy of Education Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1994-1996.
• Literacy Award, Iowa Council of Teachers of English & Language Arts (for excellence in college-level teaching), 1996.
• Outstanding Scholarship Award, National Writing Centers Association, 1993.
• Promising Researcher Award, National Council of Teachers of English, 1992.

• Sperling & DiPardo (2008, in press). English education research and classroom practice: New directions for New Times, Review of Research in Education, 32.
• DiPardo & Schnack (2004).  Expanding the web of meaning: Thought and emotion in an intergenerational reading and writing program.  Reading Research Quarterly, 39, 14-37.
• DiPardo (2007, in press). Literacy in later life. To appear (2007) in B. Guzzetti (Ed.), Literacy for a new century. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
• DiPardo, A. (2004). Learning for Our Lives: Sustaining the Wise Child in an Era of High-Stakes Testing. English Leadership Quarterly, 26(3), 2-6.
• DiPardo, A. & Schnack, P. (2004). I can't see you, but I know you: An intergenerational literacy program. Quarterly of the National Writing Project, 26(1), 26-31, 41.
• DiPardo, A. & Schnack, P. (2003). Partners in reading, partners in life. Educational Leadership, 60(6), 56-58.
• DiPardo, A. (2003). Beyond cognition: A Vygotskian perspective on emotionality and teachers' professional lives. To appear in V. Ageyev, B. Gindis, A. Kozulin, & S. Miller (Eds.), Vygotsky’s Educational Theory in Cultural Context. NY: Cambridge University Press.
• DiPardo, A. (1998). Teaching in common: Challenges to joint work in classrooms and schools. NY and Urbana, IL: Teachers College Press and NCTE.
• DiPardo, A. (1993). A kind of passport: A basic writing adjunct program and the challenge of student diversity (Research Report No. 24). Urbana, IL: NCTE.
• DiPardo, A. (2000). What a little hate literature will do: "Cultural issues" and the emotional aspect of school change. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 31, 306-332.
• DiPardo, A. & Fehn, B. (2000). Depoliticizing multicultural education: A case study of a predominantly white high school. Theory and Research in Social Education, 28, 170-192.

• Social and cultural contexts of literacy teaching and learning
• Affect in teachers' professional lives and students' literacy learning
• Collaborative teaching and learning

• MA Seminar in English Education
• Qualitative Studies in Classroom Settings
• Literacy Teaching in the Context of School Change
• Issues in Teachers' Professional Lives
• Writing About Education
• Language and Learning
• Doctoral seminars