Amanda Godley
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5111 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7313
EMAIL:
agodley@pitt.eduFull Time Faculty - Associate Professor
Amanda Godley is an assistant professor of English Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches courses on classroom discourse, theories of literacy, research interviewing, teaching writing and action research. Before earning her Ph.D., she taught middle and high school English in the US and in South America. Her research interests include critical grammar instruction, classroom discourse, issues of power and equity in secondary English classes, and the practice of gender through literacy. She currently has an NAE/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship to research "problem-posing" grammar instruction in urban high schools.
School Affiliations
- Department: Instruction and Learning
- Program: English and Communications Education
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 Publications
Journal Articles
- Godley, A. J. & Minnici, A. (2008). Critical language pedagogy in an urban high school English class. Urban Education, 43(3), 319-346.
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Recent Course Instruction
Fall 2008 (2091)
Summer 2008 (2087)
Spring 2008 (2084)
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Recent Presentations
- Bridging Community and School Dialects: Changing Teachers’ Representations of Students’ Language through Linguistics-Based Professional Development
Godley, A. & Mihalikis, V. (2008, February). Bridging Community and School Dialects: Changing Teachers’ Representations of Students’ Language through Linguistics-Based Professional Development. Paper presented at the NCTE Assembly for Research Mid-Winter Conference, Bloomington, IN.
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Current Professional Participation
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Recent Grants
- Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh, Provost Office. ($7,100). PI: The Effects of Linguistics-Based Grammar Instruction on the Literacy Skills of African American Adolescents. August 2007- May 2008.
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