Dr. Anna Smith

Assistant Professor

Teaching and Learning

Office Phone

(309) 438-4251office
phone

amsmi11@ilstu.eduemail

Website

developingwriters.orgwebsite

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Dr. Anna Smith received her Ph.D. at New York University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Illinois State University, following an Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship in Writing and New Learning Ecologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age (Open University Press) and co-editor of the Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures (Routledge). Her recent research on writing development, transliteracies, and the intersection of teaching and learning can be found in journals such as Language, Culture, and Social Interaction, Theory into Practice, Literacy, and Journal of Literacy Research.

Current Courses

579.001Critical Perspectives on Technology-Based Learning

410.092Emerging Educational Technologies

481.093Professional Research I

598.003Professional Practice

432.001Technology Across the Disciplines

PhD

New York University

University Research Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2019

Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy

Literacy Research Association and University at Albany, SUNY

2018

Digital Media and Learning Multi-Method Data Fellow

Connected Learning Alliance

2017

Book, Authored

Mills, K., Stornaiuolo, A., Smith, A., & Pandya, J. Handbook of writing, literacies, and education in digital cultures. Routledge (2017)

Andrews, R., & Smith, A. Developing writers: Teaching and learning in the digital age. Open University Press (2011)

Book, Chapter

Smith, A. Waves of theory building in writing and its development, and their implications for instruction, assessment, and curriculum. Theoretical models and processes of literacy. Routledge (2018): 81--99.

Smith, A., & Wargo, J. Experiencing Electracy: Digital Writing and the Emerging Communicative Landscapes of Youth Composing Selves. Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures. Routledge (2017): 37--49.

Smith, A., & Kennett, K. Multimodal Meaning: Discursive Dimensions of e-Learning. e-Learning Ecologies. Routledge (2017): 88--117.

Smith, A., McCarthey, S., & Magnifico, A. Recursive Feedback: Evaluative Dimensions of e-Learning. e-Learning Ecologies. Routledge (2017): 118--142.

Journal Article

Prior, P., & Smith, A. Writing across: Tracing transliteracies as becoming across time, space, and settings. Elsevier (2020)

Smith, A., & Prior, P. A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction (2020)

Gierhart, A., Bonner, S., Smith, A., & Seglem, R. Fostering Cosmopolitan Dispositions through Collaborative Classroom Activities. The Ethics of Digital Literacy: Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels 2 (2019): 89.

Smith, A., West, A., & McCarthey, S. Literacies across sponsorscapes: mobilising notions of literacy sponsorship. Literacy (2019)

Cope, B., Kalantzis, M., & Smith, A. Pedagogies and literacies, disentangling the historical threads: An interview with Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. Theory Into Practice 57.1 (2018): 5--11.

Other

Smith, A. Transcontextual writing development among young men. New York University (2014)

Smith, A. The literacy coach: Guiding in the right direction. UNIV GEORGIA, COLL EDUCATION 427 TUCKER HALL, ATHENS, GA 30602 USA (2007)