Anna Soter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Contact Info:

• E-mail: soter.1@osu.edu
• Office: 222A Ramseyer
• Phone: (614) 292-8049
• Fax: (614) 292-4260

Mailing Address:

• 29 W. Woodruff Ave.
• Columbus, OH 43210-1177

Research, Scholarship and Instructional Foci

• Classroom Discourse,
• Literary Theory/Young Adult Literature;
• Poetry Teaching and Learning;
• Language Education;
• Language as a Field of Energy.

Core Areas of Interest

• Adolescent and Adult Literacies;
• Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Selected Publications

• How Porcupines Make Love, II & III (1990; 1995 with Purves and Rogers)
• Reading Across Cultures (with Rogers)
• Young Adult Literature and the New Literary Theories (1999)Interpretive Play: Extending Literate Thinking Through Literary Theories and Young Adult Literature (forthcoming, October 2007).
• Currently working on book, Function and Form: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Language to Middle and High School Students (Merrill/Pearson Education). Creative publishing in poetry and short fiction.

Selected Grants

• Small Group Discussions as a Mechanism for The Development of High-Level Comprehension, IES Grant, 2002-2005;
• A Meta-Interpretation of Qualitative Research on Small Group Discussions, Spencer Foundation 2006-2007.