Contact Information

Teaching and Learning
N259 Linquist Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52246

• Trinity College, B.A.
• Harvard University, M.T.S.
• Mills College, teaching certification
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ph.D.

• Teaching and Learning
• Language, Literacy and Culture

• California Clear Professional Teaching Credential

• Associate Professor, The University of Iowa, 2006 - present.
• Assistant Professor. The University of Iowa, 2000 - 2006.
• Instructor. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1997 - 2000.
• Lecturer. Territorial Teachers' Training Program 1995 Pago Pago, American Samoa.
• Consultant. State of Hawai`i, Social Studies Evaluation Planning Team. 1995.
• Lecturer. University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 1993 - 1995.
• Elementary School Teacher. Epiphany School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1990 - 1997.

• AERA
• NCTE
• Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Research, Theory, and Practice

Selected Publications

• Boldt, G. and Salvio, P. (eds). (2006).  Love's Return: Psychoanaltic Essays on Childhood, Teaching and Learning. New York: Routledge.
• Boldt, G.  (2006).  "Resistance, Loss and Love in Learning to Read: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry." Research into the Teaching of English, 40(3).
• Boldt, G.  (2004).  "Parenting and the Narcissistic Demands of Whiteness." International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 1(2): 45-60.
• Stephens, D. and Boldt G. (2004) School/University Partnerships: Rhetoric, Realities and Intimacy. Phi Delta Kappan.
• Boldt, G. (2003). Oedipal and Other Conflicts. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. U.K.: Triangle Publications, www.triangle.co.uk/CIEC.
• Boldt, G. (2002) Toward a Reconceptualization of Gender and Power in an Elementary Classroom. Current Issues in Comparative Education. 5(1).
• Boldt, G. 2001 "Failing Bodies: Power and Identity in an Elementary Classroom." Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Winter, 2001.
• Stephens, Boldt, et al. 2000. Learning About Learning from Four Teachers. Research in the of Teaching English. 34(4).
• Boldt, G. 1996."Sexist and Heterosexist Responses to Gender Bending in an Elementary Classroom." 1996. Curriculum Inquiry. 26(2). Reprinted in Tobin, Joseph (ed). 1997. Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Stone, Lynda and Boldt, Gail (eds). The Education Feminism Reader, Routledge, Chapman and Hall,1994.

• Post-structural and psychoanalytic theories of identity
• Identity and schooling
• Children and popular culture

• 7e/s:308 Seminar: Research and Current Issues.
  Topic: Media Education and Popular Culture
• 7e/s415 Ph.D. Seminar in Language Literacy and Culture.
  Topic: Representation and Identity in Literacy Studies
• 7e/s:415 Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Culture.
  Topic: Foucault and Education.