Janet Alsup
Associate Professor, Departments of English and Curriculum & Instruction
| Education: | Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000 |
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| Office: | HEAV 436 |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-43777 |
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| Website: | http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~alsupj/index.htm |
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| Specializations: | Teacher education and professional identity development; teaching composition, literature, and cultural studies in secondary schools; qualitative and narrative research methods in English education, and young adult literature |
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Janet Alsup is Associate Professor of English Education with a joint appointment in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Education. Her specialties are teacher education and professional identity development, the teaching of composition and literature in secondary schools, critical pedagogy, young adult literature, and qualitative and narrative inquiry. Her recent publications appear in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The ALAN Review, and English Education, and she has co-authored a book titled But Will It Work With Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching Secondary English Language Arts (NCTE, 2003). She regularly presents at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention and the CCCC Conference. Among the courses she has recently taught at Purdue are Literature in the Secondary Schools (English 492), Composition for Teachers (English 391), and The American Teacher: The History of US Teacher Preparation, 1821-Present (English 696/EDCI 613). Professor Alsup's second book, Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces (Erlbaum/NCTE), will be available in November 2005.
