Bonnie S. Sunstein, Professor
Contact Information |
Mailing Address |
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- N 266 Lindquist Center
- College of Education
- The University of Iowa
- Iowa City IA 52242 USA
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Telephone: 319/335-5607
Fax: 319/335-5608
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday 3pm-5pm |
| Email: bonnie-sunstein@uiowa.edu |
Nonfiction Writing Program
FieldWorking Online project
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| Education |
- BS, Boston University, 1968
- MA, Boston University, 1975
- PhD, University of New Hampshire, 1991
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| Affiliations within the College |
- Teaching and Learning
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UI English Department, CLAS, 2005: John Gerber Award for the Teaching of Writing U of I Year of the Arts and Humanities Award 2005: "Writers Gone Public"
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Program Coordinator, English Education, COE
- English Dept, College of Liberal Arts, Director of Undergraduate Writing
- Educational Policy Committee, College of Liberal Arts
- Advisor, National Council of Teachers of English UI Student Affiliate
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| Professional Experience |
- Massachusetts Public Schools, 1968-77
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1977-82, associate faculty 98-date
- Rivier College, Nashua, NH, 1982-92
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1987-96, associate faculty 92-date
- University of Iowa, 1992-date
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| Professional Activities and Membership |
- Nat'l Council of Teachers of English: Trustee of the Reseearch Foundation
- Nat'l Council of Teachers of English, Council on English Education: Executive Board
- Fourth Genre, nonfiction journal; English Education, professional journal: Editorial Boards
- American Folklore Society, American Anthropological Assn: member
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| Selected Publications |
Books:
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What Works: Method and Design for Teacher Inquiry. Heinemann Boynton Cook, 2006.
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FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research. Bedford St.Martins. first edition 1997; second edition 2002; third edition 2006.
- The Portfolio Standard (Heinemann), 2000
- Assessing Portfolios: A Portfolio (NCTE), 1996
- Composing a Culture (Boynton/Cook), 1994
- Portfolio Portraits (Heinemann) 1992
Articles:
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"More Than Just Writing About Me? Linking Self and Other in the Ethnographic Essay" Zemilansky, Pavel, Eds. Research Writing Revisited. Heinemann, 2005.
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"Why Do We Have to do That Folder Thing Again? A Portfolio Pedagogy for Teachers and Students." in Heid, MK, Blume, GW, Smith, MS and Zbiek, RM. Assessing What Students Understand, Know, and Can Do in Mathematics. State College, PA: NCTM Yearbook. 2004.
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Sunstein, B.S. (1998) Moveable Feasts, Liminal Spaces: Writing Centers and the State of In-Betweenness. The Writing Center Journal, 18:2. pp. 7-26.
- Sunstein, B.S. (1998) Searching Under Surfaces: Reflection as an Antidote for Forgery. IN Murphy, Sandra (Ed.) The Clearing House. Heldref Publications.
- Sunstein, B.S. (1996) Assessing Portfolio Assessment: Three Encounters of a Close Kind. Voices from the Middle, 3:4. pp. 13-22.
- Sunstein, B.S. (1996) Culture on the Page: Experience, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics in Ethnographic Writing. IN Kirsch, G. and Mortensen, P. (Eds.) Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English.
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| Research Interests |
- Researching and composing ethnographic texts
- English Education and literacy studies
- Folklore and its application to literacy studies
- Cultural contexts for literacy activity, especially portfolios and writing centers
- Composition theory
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| Courses Typically Taught |
- Approaches to Teaching Writing
- Research on Writing
- Ethnographic Theories, Methods, and Texts
- Varieties of the Essay: The Ethnographic Essay
- Undergraduate Essay Workshop
- American Folklore and Folklore Genres
- Methods English, Methods Reading, Methods Literacy Research
- Methods High School Reading
- Ph.D. Seminar in English Education
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