John
A. Staunton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Education
• Ed.S., Indiana University
• Ph.D., Fordham University
• M.A., Fordham University
• B.A., University of Notre Dame
Areas of Interest
• English Education
• Pedagogies of Reading and Writing
• Histories of Literacy
• 19th-century Women Writers
• American Regionalism
Selected Presentations and Publications
Staunton, John A. “ A Miracle of Catfish and the Recursions of Art.” In Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry, eds. Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2008. [Forthcoming]
_____. “Alice Cary.” The Wadsworth Anthology of American Literature, Vol. C: 1800-1865. Ed. Shirley Samuels. Thomson Publishing, 2008.
_____. “Edward Eggleston.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. New York: Oxford UP, 2006.
_____. Rev. Walter Dean Myers, “Monster.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (May 2002): 791-93.
_____. “Shadowing Grace in the ‘Post-Southern' South: ‘A Roadside Resurrection' and Larry Brown's Narratives of Witness,” Religion & Literature 33.2 (Spring 2001): 1-32.
_____.“Kate Chopin's ‘One Story': Casting a Shadowy Glance on the Ethics of Regionalism,” Studies in American Fiction 28.2 (Fall 2000): 203-34. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism 68 (2004): 248-63.
Current Projects
John Staunton's book Deranging English/Education: Narrative Inquiry, Teacher Training, and the Place of the Curriculum in 21 st Century Schools is currently under contract at NCTE and scheduled for release Summer 2008.
Additionally, he has pieces on teacher research and literacy pedagogy that will be included in book collections:
- “A Collaboration of Perfect Economy: Carrying Teacher-Research across Country in Williams' ‘Red Wheelbarrow'” (with Gloria Reeves and Joanne Wisniewski)
- “Opening Lines of Communication: The Shape of Critical Literacy in Student Writing Histories.”
- “Praying for Everybody: Framing Social Justice in English Education”
He is also developing a book manuscript, American Women Writers and the Education of the Regional Subject , which investigates the role of regional and popular writers (particularly women writers) in shaping 19th- and early 20th-century conversations about what constitutes American identity, literature, and education.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 6674/EDCI 8020: Topics in Literacy Research/Applied Research Methods in the Teaching of English
- ENGL/EDUC 6274: Contexts and Issues in the Teaching of English
- ENGL 6062: Topics in Rhetoric: Writing Project Level I Institute
- ENGL 4254/5254: Methods of Teaching English for Middle/Secondary
- ENGL 4050/5050: Modern World Literature
- ENGL/AMST/WMST 4050/5050: American Women Writers
- ENGL 3300: American Literature Survey
- ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature
- ENGL 2112: Introduction to Modern World Literature
- ENGL 2100: Writing about Literature
Selected Professional Service
Advisory Board, Kate Chopin International Society. 2006-2011
http://www.katechopin.org/Society.html
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