Stuart Greene

Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Specialty
Composition theory, literacy, rhetoric, and writing

Degrees
B.A., M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

Profile
Stuart Greene's research and teaching have focused on the relationship between writing and learning in higher education and the acquisition of literacy. This work has resulted in his edited publication, Teaching Academic Literacy; a textbook, Argument as Inquiry; and articles in both Research in the Teaching of English and Written Communication. His current research focuses on the history of education, civil rights legislation, and minority opportunity in the public schools. This new work has led to the publication of his edited volume, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding, for which he won the National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award for Research in English Education. His edited volume, Literacy as a Civil Right: Reclaiming Social Justice in Literacy Teaching and Learning, is forthcoming. He is past president of the Special Interest Group on Writing and Literacy at the American Educational Research Association and is currently the chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly on Research. He is also the Director of the National Council of Teachers of English Commission on Composition.

Recent Publications

Greene, Stuart and Dawn Abt-Perkins. Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Racial Understanding. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.

Weese, Katherine, Stephen L. Fox, and Stuart Greene, eds. Teaching Academic Literacy: The Uses of Teacher-Research in Developing a Writing Program. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Recent Awards and Honors

National Council of Teachers of English Richard A. Meade Award for

Research in English Education, 2005

Kaneb Teaching Award, University of Notre Dame, 2003

Contact Information
104 O'Shaughnessy Hall
(574) 631-4573
sgreene1@nd.edu