Linda T. Parsons, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

E-mail: parsons.135@osu.edu
Office: Morrill Hall (Marion Campus)
Phone: (740) 725-6297
Fax:

Mailing Address:

1465 Mt Vernon Ave
Marion, Oh 43302

Biographical Information:

Linda T. Parsons is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University at Marion. After a full career teaching middle grade students in public schools, she now teaches literacy and children's literature courses in the School of Teaching and Learning. She earned a B.S. degree from Miami University in Elementary Education, an M. Ed. from Ashland University in Curriculum and Instruction, and a Ph. D. in Education with an emphasis on children's literature from The Ohio State University.

One of her research interests involves the content analysis of children's literature, both single titles and sets of books, to better understand the messages conveyed to young readers. Another area of interest is exploring and documenting children's engagement and response to literature. Specifically, she has worked with groups of children as co-researchers to document the ways they create, enter, and sustain the world of the story. Her research and teaching pedagogy is situated primarily within the traditions of reader response, feminist, and social-constructivist theories.

Selected Publications

Bendré, P. E., Colabucci, L., Parsons, L. T., & Son, E. H. (2007). Reading Corner for Children: Read-Alouds Worth Remembering. Language Arts,
Colabucci, L. & Parsons, L. T. (2006). Getting to know characters who are writers. Booklinks, 15(5), 38-45.
Parsons, L. T. (2006). Visualizing worlds from words on a page. Language Arts, 83, 492-500.
Parsons, L. T. (2004). Ella evolving: Cinderella stories and the construction of gender-appropriate behavior. Children's Literature in Education, 35, 135-154.
Parsons, L. T. (2003). Zeely: A "foremother" of the feminist children's novel. The New Advocate, 16, 149-160.
Parsons, L. T. (2002). 'Otherways' into the garden: Re-visioning the feminine in The Secret Garden. Children's Literature in Education, 33, 247-268.
Parsons, L. T., & Colabucci, L. (in review). To Be a Writer: Representations of Writers in Recent Children's Novels. The Reading Teacher.

Courses Taught

Edu.T&L 656, Adolescent Literature
Edu. T&L 705, Reading Methods for Early Childhood
Ed. T&L 739, Assessment and Instructional Decision-Making in Literacy