
- Professor, English
- Professor, Urban Education
Research Interests
- Composition and rhetoric; critical pedagogy and literacy; working-class studies; critical whiteness and cultural studies; Paulo Freire theory and methods; urban eduation; rhetoric of space and place; rhetoric of occupy.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Office Hours
By appointment
Selected Publications:
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Critical Teaching and Everyday Life (1980), University of Chicago Press, 4th printing, 1992.
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Culture Wars: School and Society in the Conservative Restoration (1986), University of Chicago Press, 4th printing, 1992.
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Freire for the Classroom (1987), Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, 10th printing, 2002.
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A Pedagogy for Liberation (1987), Bergin-Garvey/Greenwood, 9th printing, 2002.
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Empowering Education (1992), University of Chicago Press, 4th printing, 2000.
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When Students Have Power, University of Chicago Press, 2nd printing, 1998.
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Critical Literacy in Action: Writing Words, Changing Worlds--A Tribute to the Life and Work of Paulo Freire (1921-1997), Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, 1999.
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Education Is Politics: Critical Teaching Across Differences (K-12), Vol. 1, Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, 1999.
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Education Is Politics: Critical Teaching Across Differences (Post-Secondary), Vol. 2, Boynton-Cook Heinemann, 2000.

Office Hours
By appointment