Cosponsored Speakers are listed below in order of last name. 

DALE ALLENDER

• Multicultural literature instruction
• twenty-first century learning and teaching
• new media

AKUA DUKU ANOKYE

Past Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Arizona State University, Phoenix

• Language/storytelling—orality and literacy
• multicultural/diversity—access and high-stakes testing
• writing instruction—teacher preparation

FRED BARTON

CHARLES BAZERMAN

Associate Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
University of California, Santa Barbara

• Academic and Disciplinary Writing 
• Lifespan Development of Writing Abilities 
• Writing as Social Action and Social Organization 

KYLENE BEERS

NCTE President Elect
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University, New York 

• Adolescent literacy 
• struggling readers 
• closing the achievement gap 

ALLEN BERGER

Editor, Secondary School Literacy: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practice
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

• The Building Blocks of Poetry
• Teens for Literacy in Inner-City Schools
• Reading and Writing in Secondary Schools
  

KEITH D. BROWN

Member, 2007 NCTE Rainbow Strand Planning Group
Oakland Education Association, CA

• Culturally relevant pedagogy
• popular culture to promote literacy
• motivating African American students in middle school
• teacher union issues

BARBARA L. CAMBRIDGE

Senior Program Officer for Pre-K–12 Education
NCTE D.C. Office

• Scholarly inquiry into teaching and learning
• promoting learning through portfolios—print or electronic
• learning from and with our students

JAMES BUCKY CARTER

Editor, Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
University of Southern Mississippi/University of Virginia

• Visual literacy
• multimodal literacy
• intersections between literacy and sequential art narrative (comics and graphic novels) 

MARY T. CHRISTEL

Editor, Creating Media-Rich Classrooms: New Approaches for Middle and Secondary Teachers
Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

• Integrating Media Literacy Skills into Existing English/LA Curricula 

ROBERT E. CRAFTON

Chair, NCTE Standing Committee Against Censorship
Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania

• Censorship

MARYCARMEN CRUZ

Member, 2007 NCTE Rainbow Strand Planning Group
Cholla Magnet High School, Tucson, Arizona

• English Language Learners and Academic Language
• Latino Literature for Young Adults
• Literacy Instruction in a Diverse Classroom

MILLIE DAVIS

Division Director of Communications and Affiliate Services
NCTE Headquarters, Urbana, Illinois

• Censorship and intellectual freedom
• teaching writing
• the NCTE/affiliate partnership
• strategies for revitalizing volunteer organizations
  

LAURA HENNESSEY DESENA

Author, Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques
New York University, New York City

• Preventing plagiarism in academic writing
• the role of free writing in academic composition
• creative outlining in the composition process
  

CHRIS JENNINGS DIXON

Editor, Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing 
Professor Emeritus, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, Virginia

• Developing Collaborative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
• Establishing High School Writing Centers
• Creating Partnerships among Faculties in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

ELIZABETH DUTRO

Director, NCTE Commission on Composition
University of Colorado at Boulder

• What's at Stake in Assumptions about Gender and Literacy
• What "Hard Times" Means: Mandated Curriculum, Middle Class Assumptions, and the Lives of Poor Children
• Toward a Pedagogy of Testimony and Witness: The Entrenchment of Deficit Perspectives and the Need for New Metaphors in Literacy Education

JUDITH FRANZAK

Director, NCTE Commission on Literature
Montana State University, Bozeman

• Policy Is Not an Ugly Word: Teachers Reclaiming Power
• Struggling Adolescent Readers: Misunderstandings, Motivations, and Making Progess
• Fostering a Love of Literature in the High-Stakes Testing Climate 

NANCY FREY 

Author, Language Learners in the English Classroom
San Diego State University, California 

• Content-area literacy at elementary and secondary levels
• English learners in the English classroom
• using graphic novels in reading and writing

CHERYL GLENN 

Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

SANDRA HAYES

Chair, NCTE Middle Level Section
Becker Middle School, Becker, Minnesota

• Young adult literature—hot books and cool response strategies
• current issues in adolescent literacy
• using technologies in the English language arts classroom

ROXANNE HENKIN

Editor, Voices from the Middle
The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Writing process, writing workshop
• critical literacy
• reading process
• reading and social justice
• literacy and bullying

DEBORAH H. HOLDSTEIN

Editor, College Composition and Communication
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb

BOBBI CIRIZA HOUTCHENS

Member, 2007 NCTE Rainbow Strand Planning Group (ex officio)
Arroyo Valley High School, San Bernardino, California

• Using Latino literature in the classroom
• developing biliterate readers and writers
• developing academic English for English learners

ANNA CHRISTINA DASILVA IDDINGS

Director, NCTE Commission on Language
University of Arizona, Tucson

CAROL JAGO

NCTE Vice President; Author, Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, California

ALEXANDER KAPLAN

Co-author, Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
Newton South High School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts

• Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien in High School English and/or Creative Writing Classes
• Teaching Creative Writing in High School as a Subversive Activity

Photo by Allison Evans

JUDITH MOORE KELLY

Member, 2007 NCTE Rainbow Strand Planning Group
Howard University, Washington, D.C.

• Writing and the teaching of writing
• Adolescent Literacy: The Reading and Writing Connection
• writing assessment
  

WILLIAM KIST

Director, NCTE Commission on Media
Kent State University, Akron, Ohio

• Strategies for Incorporating New Literacies into the Language Arts Classroom
• working with adolescent readers
• working with adolescent writers

SUSI LONG

Co-editor, School Talk
University of South Carolina, Columbia

• Broadening the Norm:  Home and Community Literacies and Classroom Teaching
• Supporting New Teachers: Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching
• Meaning-Based Literacy Experiences: Building Semantically-Rich Classrooms

HILDY MILLER

Author, A Guide to Professional Development for Graduate Students in English
Portland State University, Oregon

• Professional development for graduate students 

CINDY MOORE

Author, A Guide to Professional Development for Graduate Students in English
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond

• Professional development—graduate students
• writing assessment (e.g., using portfolios)
• writing program assessment 

MICHAEL T. MOORE

• Writing for publication
• content reading
• creativity research

DETRA PRICE-DENNIS

Co-editor, Language Arts
The Ohio State University, Columbus

• Teacher education
• middle childhood literacy
• children's literature

VALERIE SWEENEY PRINCE

Member, 2007 NCTE Rainbow Strand Planning Group
Hampton University, Virginia

• Home in African American literature
• interdisciplinary approaches to literature
   

LOUANN REID

Editor, English Journal
Colorado State University, Fort Collins

• Teaching poetry
• multimodal literacies
• teaching grammar in contexts for writing 

PAULA RESSLER

Chair, NCTE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Academic Studies Advisory Committee
Illinois State University, Normal

• Learning-through-drama workshops on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) themes such as safe schools, LGBT-inclusive curriculum, and gay marriage
• LGBT issues in teacher education
• creating queer-friendly writing classrooms

RUTH E. RIGBY

Director, NCTE Commission on Reading
Charlotte County Public Schools, Port Charlotte, Florida

• Adolescent literacy:  the readers who struggle
• content literacy: literacy across the curriculum as a shared responsibility
• reading leadership:  building a research-based reading program
• coaching the reading coach

R. JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ

Chair, NCTE Committee on Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English; Member, NCTE 2007 Rainbow Strand Planning Group
University of Houston, Texas

• U.S. literature
• issues in education
• higher levels of student achievement in English language arts

SHARON ROTH

Director of Professional Development
NCTE Headquarters, Urbana, Illinois

• Making the most of professional development resources from NCTE
• ReadWriteThink

JOHN SCHILB

Editor, College English
Indiana University, Bloomington

• Composition theory, rhetorical theory, literary theory, and their possible connections
• general trends in English studies
• writing for scholarly publication

JEFF SOMMERS

Editor, Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Miami University, Middletown, Ohio

• Publishing in Teaching English in the Two-Year College 
• the scholarship of teaching and learning
• problem-based learning and literary study 
  

MELANIE SPERLING

Editor, Research in the Teaching of English
University of California, Riverside

• Research on literacy 
• English Education: The Research-to-Practice Concerns

B. JOYCE STALLWORTH

Member, 2007NCTE Rainbow Strand Planning Group
University of Alabama, Northport

• Young adult literature 
• content area literacy 
• multicultural education
  

RUTH TOWNSEND STORY

Chair, NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates
Clemson University, Salem, South Carolina

• Grammar power equals language power
• integrated reading and writing instruction, grades 4–8
• writing and revision
  

SCOTT SULLIVAN

Editor, Creating Media-Rich Classrooms: New Approaches for Middle and Secondary Teachers
National Louis University, Highland Park, Illinois

• Media Literacy and Lesson Planning
• Interdisciplinary Units and Media Literacy 

KENT WILLIAMSON

Executive Director
NCTE Headquarters, Urbana, Illinois

• New approaches to organizing, managing, and governing volunteer, nonprofit organizations for educators
• leadership development; membership growth
• public policy advocacy in the NCTE network
  

SHELBIE WITTE

NCTE Middle Level Section Rep-at-Large
Fort Riley Middle School, Fort Riley, Kansas

• 21st-century literacies
• Popular Culture/Technology Influences on the Changing Definition of Literacy
• middle school language arts classrooms

KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY

NCTE President
Florida State University, Tallahassee

• The Use of Digital Technologies—from Pop Ups to Powerpoints—in the Teaching of Writing
• portfolios: digital/print/both
• reflection, reading, and writing
• new composing processes
• teaching literature as reflective practice