Mark Dressman is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

:: Contact Information
316 Education Building (EDUC) | MC-708
217-244-6815
mdressma@uiuc.edu

:: Representative Publications
Dressman, M. (2006). Teacher, teach thyself: Teacher research
as gendered ethnographic practice. Ethnography, 7(3), 329-356.

Wilder, P., & Dressman, M. (2006). New literacies, enduring challenges? The influence of capital on adolescent readers' internet practices. In D. E. Alvermann, K. A. Hinchman, D. W. Moore, S. F. Phelps, & D. R. Waff (Eds.), Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents' lives (2nd ed.) (pp. 205-229). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dressman, M., Wilder, P., & Connor, J. (2005). Theories of failure and the failure of theories: A cognitive/sociocultural/ macrostructural study of eight struggling students. Research in the Teaching of English, 40, 8-61.

Dressman, M. (2004). Dewey and Bakhtin in dialogue: From Rosenblatt to a pedagogy of literature as social, aesthetic practice. In A. Ball and S. Freedman (Eds.),Language, literacy, and learning:Bakhtinian perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In addition, he has published in Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Language Arts, Curriculum Inquiry, and Journal of Curriculum Studies, among other journals. He is the author of Literacy in the library: Negotiating the spaces between order and desire (Bergin & Garvey, 1997), and has collaboratively written chapters for recent anthologies, including Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (Bertram Bruce and Cushla Kaptizke, Eds.), Literacy research methodologies (Nell Duke and Marla Mallette, Eds.), and Writing permitted in designated areas only (Linda Brodkey, Ed.). He presents regularly at the annual meetings of the National Reading Conference and the American Educational Research Association and has presented internationally at the University of London and in Mexico.

He is currently Reviews Editor for Journal of Curriculum Studies and from 2000-2003 was Book Review Editor for The New Advocate. He serves on the editorial boards of Research in the Teaching of English and Reading Research Quarterly.

:: Research Specializations
School Literacy; Teaching English; Rhetorics of Literacy Research