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Elizabeth Dutro, PhD
Associate Professor of Education
School of Education, Room 315
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-492-0738
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: Elizabeth.Dutro@Colorado.Edu
Website: spot.colorado.edu/~dutro
Elizabeth Dutro is an associate professor of education, specializing in the area of literacy. Dr. Dutro’s research has investigated literacy education from children’s experiences in high-poverty classrooms to the standards-based policies in reading and writing that impact those experiences. These research studies are linked by a commitment to educational equity, particularly for those children who have been least well-served by public schools. She teaches courses such as Perspectives on Classrooms, Teaching, and Learning, Gender and K-12 Literacy, Education in Film, and Teacher Research.
The primary strand of her research is driven by questions about the intersections of literacy, identity, life experiences, and children’s and youth’s opportunities for positive, sustained, and productive relationships with schooling. To investigate these questions, she has conducted intensive qualitative investigations of classrooms in four state contexts. Across these studies, her findings emphasize the consequences of children’s encounters with school literacy practices for their social and academic positioning and opportunities to achieve success in the ways that officially count in US schools. Her work has appeared in Review of Research in Education, Teachers College Record, Journal of Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, Urban Education, Language Arts, Reading and Writing Quarterly, and Theory Into Practice.
Dr. Dutro is an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Educational Research Association, National Reading Conference, National Council of Teachers of English, and International Reading Association. She was a recipient of the Promising Researcher Award from National Council of Teachers of English and the Frank Pajares award from Theory Into Practice. She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Literacy Research, Language Arts, and Reading and Writing Quarterly.
Education:
2000 PhD, Educational Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1993 MA, English Literature, San Francisco State University
1989 BA, Liberal Studies, La Sierra University
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