Contact Information

University of Iowa
Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
N276 Lindquist Center
Iowa City, IA 52242-1529

• Ph.D., University of Iowa, Literacy Education, 1995
• M.A., University of Iowa, English and Nonfiction Writing, 1980
• B.S., University of Illinois, English Education, 1975

• Program Coordinator, University of Iowa, Language, Literacy, and Culture, 2002-present
• Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Language, Literacy, and Culture, 2001-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Language Literacy and Culture Program, 1997-2001
• Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, Dept. of Education, 1995-1997

• Executive Board Member, National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, 2003-2006
• Section Co-Chair, American Educational Research Association, 2003
• Member, Nominating Committee, National Council of Teachers of English, 2001
• Column Editor, The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 1998-2002
• National Reading Conference Program Area Co-Chair, 1998-2000
• Editorial Advisory Boards: Reading Research Quarterly; Criticial
  Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal; National
  Reading Conference Yearbook

• Lewis, C. & Ketter, J. (2003). Learning as social interaction: Interdiscursivity in a teacher-researcher book group. In R. Rogers (Ed.), An introduction to critical discourse analysis in education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Lewis, C. & Finders, M. (2002). Implied adolescents and implied teachers: A generation gap for new times. In D. E. Alvermann (Ed.), Adolescents and literacies in a digital world. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
• Lewis, C. (2001). Literary practices as social acts: Power, status, and cultural norms in the classroom. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Lewis, C., Ketter, J., & Fabos, B. (2001). Reading race in a rural context. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 14 (3), 317-350.
• Lewis, C. (2000). Limits of identification: The personal, pleasurable, and critical in reader response. Journal of Literacy Research, 32, 253-266.
• Lewis, C. (1999). Teaching literature to adolescents. Reading Research Quarterly, 34, 114-127.

• Edward B. Fry Book Award, for Literary Practices as Social Acts, 2002.
• Thomas N. Urban Research Award, for outstanding educational research in Iowa, 2002.
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2000-2002.
• Outstanding Dissertation Award (Finalist), The International Reading Association, 1997.
• Promising Researcher Award, National Council of Teachers of English, 1996.

• Division of Curriculum and Instruction
• Language, Literacy, and Culture program
• Elementary Education program

• Social, cultural, and critical dimensions of literacy
• Literacy, identity, and discourse
• Digital and new-media literacies
• Response to literature
• Teacher study groups

• 07S:370 Methods of Literacy Research (Topic: Critical Discourse Analysis)
• 07S:415 Seminar on Language, Literacy and Culture
• 07E:204 Children's Literature II (Topic: Reading Race and Gender in Children's and Young Adult Fiction)
• 07E:123 Reading and Responding to Children's Literature