Dr. Anna Smith

Associate 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

599.007Dissertation Research

599.201Dissertation Research Final Term

579.001Critical Perspectives on Technology-Based Learning

599.011Dissertation Research

438.001E-Learning Ecologies In Educational Settings

481.001Professional Research I

468.001Professional Research In Literacy Learning I

PhD

New York University

University Service Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2021

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

Nichols, T., Smith, A., Bulfin, S., & Stornaiuolo, A. Critical Literacy, Digital Platforms, and Datafication. The Handbook of Critical Literacies. Routledge (2021): 345--353.

Smith, A. From Mimeographs to New Learning Ecologies. Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices. Brill (2021): 224--230.

Smith, A., & Hall, M. Mobilities of Youth Print Practices in Cosmopolitan Conversation Video Composition. Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices. Brill (2021): 145--164.

Dippre, R., & Smith, A. Always Already Relocalized: The Protean Nature of Context in Lifespan Writing Research. Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado (2020): 27--38.

Smith, A. Across, Through, and With: Ontological Orientations for Lifespan Writing Research. Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado (2020): 15--26.

Journal Article

Thakurta, A., & Smith, A. Flexibility by and for Design: Reimagining Learning Structures in Unsettled Times. Voices From the Middle 29.3 (2022): 14--17.

G. Stewart, O., Hsieh, B., Smith, A., & Pandya, J. What more can we do? A scalar approach to examining critical digital literacies in teacher education. Pedagogies: An International Journal 16.2 (2021): 125-137.

Smith, A., & Hunt, C. Authoritative discourses of development in curricular policy on digital writing. Theory Into Practice 60.2 (2021): 1--12.

Smith, A., McBride, C., & Rogers, C. Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning. Pedagogies: An International Journal 16.2 (2021): 202-219.

Lemieux, A., Smith, A., McLean, C., & Rowsell, J. Visualizing mapping as pedagogy for literacy futures. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 35.2 (2020): 36-58.