Headshot of the author of the blog, Anne W. Anderson
Like Thomas, quoted above, I do a lot of wondering, which has led me on one incredible and lifelong journey of learning. My B.A. is in Creative Writing (English); my M.A. is in Journalism (Communication); my Ph.D. is in Curriculum & Instruction/Literacy Studies (Education) with a Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Methods. I also have accounting credits and small-business management experience. I frequent the borderlands between disciplines and, like Frost and Lewis's Lucy, seek to be an awakener.
I study and write about children's and young adult (ChYA) literature, teaching writing, online education, and theories and methods of research. As I have discovered, however, one cannot study ChYA literature, much less rhetoric/writing or theories and methods of research, without also embarking on adventures in the Big Ideas of Life: religious and philosophical beliefs, ethical and moral questions, political and economic positions, and all the drama of the human experience.
For five years, I taught undergraduate students at a major university ChYA literature -- both critical studies and pedagogies of teaching literature -- and writing -- both writing development and pedagogies of teaching writing.
In another capacity, I provided instructional design and technical, software, and online teaching/learning support to faculty and students in an adult-learning program at a small liberal arts college. Later, I provided accessibility support services to faculty and students at the same college.
Prior to working in academia, I worked for more two decades in small business and non-profit management as an office manager, as a full-charge bookkeeper, and as a financial manager for a family-owned construction company and for a PK4-Grade 8 school. As a freelance writer, I create inventive ad copy, concise technical reports and manuals, skits/plays, short stories, and other material. I have been a freelance news correspondent and for the past fifteen years have served as a judge for two news organization's annual contests.
Most days, I read a ton of material. My readings tend to be eclectic. The day I wrote this, I was reading articles about industrialization and the standardization of time, the effects of humor on persuasive messages, comics and building worlds, coding systems for body action and posture, elementary teaching-writing pedagogy and strategies, and early 20th century politics -- plus the daily newspaper, part of a 1962 Southern novel, and pages from various Web sites.
Most days, I also write. Less than a ton, however. I have written in many genres including children's magazine stories, newspaper articles, theater review columns, travel books, ad copy, dramatic sketches, poetry, blogs, and more. These days, I write mostly academic papers...and the occasional dramatic/comedic sketch, blog post, and/or poem.
For five years, I taught undergraduate students at a major university ChYA literature -- both critical studies and pedagogies of teaching literature -- and writing -- both writing development and pedagogies of teaching writing.
In another capacity, I provided instructional design and technical, software, and online teaching/learning support to faculty and students in an adult-learning program at a small liberal arts college. Later, I provided accessibility support services to faculty and students at the same college.
Prior to working in academia, I worked for more two decades in small business and non-profit management as an office manager, as a full-charge bookkeeper, and as a financial manager for a family-owned construction company and for a PK4-Grade 8 school. As a freelance writer, I create inventive ad copy, concise technical reports and manuals, skits/plays, short stories, and other material. I have been a freelance news correspondent and for the past fifteen years have served as a judge for two news organization's annual contests.
Most days, I read a ton of material. My readings tend to be eclectic. The day I wrote this, I was reading articles about industrialization and the standardization of time, the effects of humor on persuasive messages, comics and building worlds, coding systems for body action and posture, elementary teaching-writing pedagogy and strategies, and early 20th century politics -- plus the daily newspaper, part of a 1962 Southern novel, and pages from various Web sites.
Most days, I also write. Less than a ton, however. I have written in many genres including children's magazine stories, newspaper articles, theater review columns, travel books, ad copy, dramatic sketches, poetry, blogs, and more. These days, I write mostly academic papers...and the occasional dramatic/comedic sketch, blog post, and/or poem.
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Selected Publications: Anderson, A.W. (2022). Planting seeds in literary narrative: Onomastic concepts and questions in Yangsook Choi's The Name Jar. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 70(4), 5-17. doi.org/10.5195/names.2022.2467 Anderson, A.W. (2020). [Review of the book Cub Reporters: American Children’s Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age, by Paige Gray]. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 45(4), 421-424. Project MUSEmuse.jhu.edu/article/780950. Anderson, A. W. (2020). [Review of the book The Sidekick comes of Age: How Young Adult Literature is Shifting the Sidekick Paradigm, by Stephen M. Zimmerly]. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 45(2), 189-192. doi:10.1353/chq.2020.0024. Anderson, A.W. (2018). [Review of the book The Children's Ghost Story in America, by Sean Ferrier-Watson]. The Lion and the Unicorn, 42(3), 378-381. doi:10.1353/uni.2018.0034. Anderson, A.W. (2018). Truckin’ Down the Principles-Focused Evaluation Road: A Review of Michael Quinn Patton’s Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE. The Qualitative Report,23(4), 774-778. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol23/iss4/4 Anderson, A.W. (2018). Caught in a web of abjection: High-stakes testing in Miriam Cohen's First Grade Takes a Test and Andrew Clements' The Report Card. Children's Literature in Education, 49(1), 19-33. Anderson, A.W. (2016). 'Out of the everywhere into here': Rhetoricity and transcendence as common ground for spiritual research. In J. Lin, R. L. Oxford, and T. E. Culhman (Eds.). Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm: Exploring New Ways of Knowing, Researching, and Being. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Anderson, A.W. (2016). Whose idea is it anyway? Big ideas in Jurassic Park, Jumanji, and The cat in the hat. In J. J. Schneider (Ed.). The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children's Literature: From Poets and Pop-ups to Princesses and Porridge [E-book]. USF Scholar Commons: Retrieved from http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/childrens_lit_textbook/ (article within a book chapter) Anderson, A.W. & Powell, R. L. (2016). The world is flat, Stanley: Globalization, ethnocentricity, and absurdity. In A. Wannamaker and J. M. Miskec (Eds.). The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture. London, U.K.: Routledge. |
Cover of a book titled The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture
A collection of books on media studies, comics, and children's literature
Stone stairs leading up toward the sunlight .
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Anne W. Anderson | P.O. Box 934 | Safety Harbor, FL 34695 [email protected]
