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MARILYN WILSON
Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures; English
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Department of English
216 Morrill Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517/353-5250 (fax)
research and teaching interests: applied language studies, critical literacy and pedagogy, reading theory, the politics of language and literacy, composition studies
courses: graduate: AL 842, Writing Workshop for Teachers; AL 875, Theories of Reading and Critical Literacy; AL 992, Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy; ENG 845, Approaches to the English Language; undergraduate: ENG 302, Introduction to English Language Studies; ENG 313, Composition Workshop for Teachers; ENG 408, Psycho-Sociolinguistic Approaches to Reading in the Disciplines
Wilson is the director of Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy in Arts and Letters and the coordinator of the undergraduate English education program in the Department of English. Her work with pre-service and practicing teachers of English includes, in addition to her teaching, workshops and conference presentations at the regional, state, and national levels, and she is the chair of the steering committee for the annual Bright Ideas Spring Conference on the English Language Arts. She is a past president of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English and has worked at the state level on certification and standards committees. She is currently a co-leader on the Literacy team for MSU's Carnegie Project, studying MSU's undergraduate teacher education program and making curricular program revisions.
Wilson's scholarship focuses on theory and practice of language and literacy instruction. She has co-authored two books with Reade Dornan and Lois Rosen,Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts: Reading in the Secondary Content Areas (Heinemann, 1997) and Within and Beyond the Writing Process in the Secondary English Classroom (Allyn and Bacon, 2003). Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom, co-authored with Mary Harmon, is forthcoming from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
In 1997, Wilson was the recipient of the Department of English Award for Exceptional Teaching, and in 2001 received the MCTE Charles Carpenter Fries award for a distinguished career in English Education. In 2002 NCTE's Women in Literature and Life Assembly awarded her the Rewey Belle Inglis Award for an outstanding woman in the teaching of English.
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