Amanda Godley
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5316 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7313
EMAIL:
agodley@pitt.eduFull Time Faculty - Associate Chairperson
Amanda Godley is an associate professor of English Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches courses on classroom discourse, theories of literacy, research interviewing, teaching language and grammar, and action research. Before earning her Ph.D., she taught middle and high school English in the U.S. and in South America. Her research interests include critical language and grammar instruction, classroom discourse, issues of power and equity in secondary English classes, and the practice of gender through literacy. Her research on language and grammar instruction has been funded by an AERA Research Grant and an N.A.Ed./Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and has appeared in journals such as Educational Researcher, Reading Research Quarterly, and Urban Education.
School Affiliations
- Department: Instruction and Learning
- Program: English and Communications Education
- Program: Language, Literacy, and Culture
Education
- Ph.D., Language, Literacy and Culture, University of California at Berkeley, 12/1/2000
- M.A., Language, Literacy and Culture, University of California at Berkeley, 5/10/1996
- B.A., Classics and Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, University of Chicago, 6/10/1991
Recent Course Instruction
Summer 2010 (2107)
Spring 2010 (2104)
Fall 2009 (2101)
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Recent Presentations
- What do bidialectal high school students learn about language variation, identity and power through inquiry-based discussion? A case study
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
- “She’s just a salesman’s wife”: High school students’ talk about women’s labor and women’s rights in American literature.
Keynote speaker, SUNY-Fredonia Women’s Studies Research Conference on Gender, Fredonia, NY.
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Current Professional Participation
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