Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background
PhD English Education, University of Illinois, 1989
MA Literacy Education, Idaho State University, 1983
BA English and Creative Writing, Western Kentucky University, 1976
Pennsylvania State Secondary English Teaching Credential, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, 1978

Professional Experience
1992-present Associate Professor of English Education,
University of Colorado at Boulder

1989-92 Associate Professor of Literacy Education,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1980-85 English Teacher/Language Arts Teacher,
Alameda Junior High School, Pocatello, Idaho

1978-80 English/Journalism Teacher,
Salisbury High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Awards
University of Colorado at Boulder, Faculty Award for Outstanding Service, 1999

International Reading Association Outstanding Dissertation Award: The Role of Reading and Writing in the Acquisition of Knowledge: A College Students' Self-Directed Engagements in Reading and Writing to Learn, 1989

National Council of Teachers of English, Promising Researcher Finalist: The Role of Reading and Writing in Acquisition of Knowledge: A Study of College Students' Self-Directed Engagements in Reading and Writing to Learn, 1989

Outstanding Published Research Article in the Journal of Educational Research for Denner, P. & McGinley, W. (1992). Effects of two prereading activities on a junior high students; story recall.

Selected Publications - Books
Howe, K., Peressini, D., & McGinley, W. (Under Contract). Constructivism in Educational Research. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Selected Publications - Articles
McGinley, W. & Kamberelis, G. (2002). "Just Only Stories." Colorado Libraries Journal.

McGinley, W. & Conley, K. (2001). "Literary retailing and the re-making of popular reading." Journal of Popular Culture, 35.2, 207-220.

McGinley, W., Meacham, S. DiNicolo, C. & Conley, K. (2000). “We’ve been through it: The pedagogy of adult community members in an urban after school program." 49th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.

McGinley, W, Conley, K., & White, J. (2000). "Pedagogy for a few: The modern book industry as literature teacher." Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 44, 204-214.

McGinley, W., & Kamberelis, G. (1997). "Maniac Magee and Ragtime Tumpie: Children negotiating self and world through reading and writing." Research in the Teaching of English, 30, 1-39.

McGinley, W., Mahoney, T., & Kamberelis, G. (1995). "Reconsidering stories." Statement: Journal of the Colorado Language Arts Society, 31, 9-16.

McGinley, W., & Kamberelis, G. (1992). "Transformative functions of children's writing." Language Arts, 69, 10-18.

McGinley, W. (1992). "The role of reading and writing while composing from sources." Reading Research Quarterly, 27, 227-248.

McGinley, W., & Kamberelis, G. (1992). "Personal, social, and political functions of children's reading and writing." In Literacy Research, Theory and Practice: Views from Many Perspectives (pp. 403-412). Forty-First Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.

Abdullah, S., Kamberelis, G., & McGinley, W. (1992). "Literacy, identity, and resistance within the African American slave community and some reflections for new forms of literacy pedagogy." In Literacy Research, Theory and Practice: Views from Many Perspectives (pp. 379-391). Forty-First Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.

McGinley, W., & Madigan, D. (1990). "The research story: A forum for integrating reading, writing, and learning." Language Arts, 67, 474-483.

McGinley, W., & Tierney, R. J. (1989). "Traversing the topical landscape: Reading and writing as ways of knowing." Written Communication, 6, 243-269.

Tierney, R. J., Soter, A., O'Flahavan, J., & McGinley, W. (1989). "The effects of reading and writing on thinking critically." Reading Research Quarterly, 24, 134-173.

Selected Publications - Book chapters
McGinley, W., Whitcomb, J. & Zerwin, S. (in press). Amazing Space: Reading Life in the Literature Classroom.

McGinley, W., T. Mahoney, & G. Kamberelis (1997). "Re-visioning reading and teaching literature through the lens of narrative theory." In T. Rogers and A. Soter (Eds.), Reading Across Cultures. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Valencia, S., McGinley, W., & Pearson, P. D. (1989). "Assessing progress in reading and writing." In G. Duffy (Ed.), Reading in the middle school. Delaware, NJ: International Reading Association.

Selected Grants
McGinley, W. Learning to Teach and the Pedagogy of Adult Community Mentors in an Urban After School Literacy Program. University of Colorado Outreach Council University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado (2002- 2005).

McGinley, W. Learning to Teach and the Pedagogy of Adult Community Mentors in an Urban After School Literacy Program. University of Colorado Outreach Council University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado (1999- 2002).

McGinley, W. with S. Meacham. Literacy in Self and Community: A Study of Adult Readers and Writers in an Urban Community. National Council of Teachers of English Grant-In-Aid (1998-1999).

McGinley, W. with S. Meacham. Literacy and Stories: The Teaching Practices of Adult Tutors in an Urban Elementary School. International Reading Association, Elva Knight Research Award (1998).

McGinley, W. Literacy, Storytelling, and Vernacular Culture Among Adults in an Urban Literacy Program. Council on Research and Creative Work: Grant-in-Aid. University of Colorado at Boulder (1997-1998).