Elaine O'Quinn
Associate Professor
Office: 216 Sanford Hall
Office Phone: 262-6894
Email: oquinnej@appstate.edu
Education:
Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (GO HOKIES!)
Academic Specialties:
Adolescent Literature, Teaching of Composition: Theory and Pedagogy, Issues in English Studies, Ethnographic Research
Dr. O'Quinn joined the Dept. of English in 1999. She is co-director of the BS in English Education program. She is also a member of the Women Studies faculty and the Appalachian Studies faculty. Her courses address the complex issues of teaching English in American society. Dr. O'Quinn's research interests include critical literacy, the sociopolitical dynamics of reading and writing, gender in the English classroom, and democracy and literacy. She is the author of numerous reviews, articles, and book chapters and has presented at national conferences. Her on-going book project is tentatively entitled: Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Failing to Morally Imagine the Lives of Teachers and Students. Dr. O'Quinn is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers in Arts and Sciences at ASU and has also received the Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Advisor.
Publications:
O'Quinn, E.J. (Summer 2008). "Teacher, Writer, Revolutionary: A Parallel Journey" book chapter. In Getting it in Writing: The Quest to Become an Outstanding and Effective Teacher of Writing. (forthcoming)
O'Quinn, E.J. (Spring 2008). "Revisiting Cherry Ames and Ginny Gordon." In Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia of Girls from 1920 to the Present. (forthcoming)
O'Quinn, E.J. (Winter 2008). "Where the Girls Are: Research and Resource." In ALAN Review. (forthcoming)
O'Quinn, E.J. (Fall 2007). "What Girls Read." In Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies. (forthcoming)
O'Quinn, E.J. & Garrison, J.W. (2006). "Whitman, Dewey, and a Song for the Occupation of Teaching." In Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Volume 22, No. 1. pgs. 127-135.
O'Quinn, E.J. & DeSiato, Alex. (2006). "Welcoming and Educating Students' Emotional Responses to Disturbing Literature." In Women in Literature and Life Assembly. Volume 14. pgs. 10-15.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2006). "Critical Literacy In Democratic Education: Responding to the Sociopolitical Tensions of Schools." In Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy. Volume 49, No 4. pgs. 260-267.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2006). "Teaching Beyond the Text: Examining and Acting on the Moral Aspects of Night." In Rosemary Horowitz (ed.), Elie Wiesel and the Art of Storytelling.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2005). "Writing Beyond Reason." In Arizona English Bulletin. Volume 47, No. 2. Pgs. 34-39.
Garrison, J.W. & O'Quinn, E.J. (2005). "Reflections on Whitman, Dewey, and Educational Reform: Recovering Spiritual Democracy for our Materialistic Times." In Journal of Education in Culture. Volume 20, No. 2. pgs. 68-77.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2004). "Vampires, Changelings, and Radical Mutant Teens: What the Demons, Freaks, and Other Abominations of Young Adult Literature can Teach us About Youth." In ALAN Review. Volume 31, No. 3. pgs. 50-56.
Duncan, B. & O'Quinn, E. J. (2004). "Allaying the Conspiracy of the Least." In Language Arts Journal of Michigan: The Scholarly Journal of Teachers of English. Volume 20, No. 1. pgs. 84-90.
Garrison, J.W. & O'Quinn, E. J. (2004). "The Social Construction of Emotional Meaning Across Gender Differences: The Dangers of Being Dismissed." In The Initiative Anthology: An Electronic Publication about Leadership, Culture, & Schooling. pgs. 1-5.
Dickerson, K. & O'Quinn, E.J. (2003). "Making a Space for Girls: Feminism, Journal Writing, and the English Classroom." In Women in Life and Literature Assembly. Volume 12, pgs.10-17.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2003). "Reading and Writing as Cultural Acts of Resistance and Exploration." In Virginia English Bulletin. Volume 53, No.1. pgs. 4-9.
O'Quinn, E. J. (2003). "But What About Shakespeare? The Struggle of Young Adult Literature to Survive." In Language Arts Journal of Michigan: The Scholarly Journal of Teachers of English. Volume 19, No.1. pgs. 41-47.
O'Quinn, E.J.& Garrison, J.W. (2003). "Creating Loving Relations in the Classroom." In Garrison, J.W. & Liston, D. (ed.), Teaching, Learning, and Loving: Reclaiming Passion in Educational Practice. pgs. 49-64. Routledge Press.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2003). "Creative Practices for Reflective, Active, and Enduring Learning." The English Record. Volume 53, No. 3. pgs.12-21.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2003) The Power of Time and Place: Changing Images of Young Women in Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by their Favorite Books and Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001." In Journal of National Women's Studies Association. Volume 15, No.1. pgs. 169-172.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2001). "Between Voice and Voicelessness: Transacting Silence in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak." ALAN Review. Volume 29, No. 1. pgs. 54-8.
O'Quinn, E.J. (2001). "Emerging Writers as Ethnographic Adventurers: An Alternative Research Paradigm for Composition Students." Virginia English Bulletin. Volume 51, No. 2. pgs. 55-60.
Garrison, J.W.& O'Quinn, E.J. (2001). "Adult Education as Personal, Poetic, and Philosophical Reflection on Occupation: Democracy, Dewey, and Whitman." In Lotte Rahbek Schou (ed.), Lifelong Learning and Pedagogy. pgs. 54-67. Copenhagen: Gads-forlag. In Danish.
O'Quinn, E.J. (1999). "Developmental Junctions of Text and Experience in Young Adult Literature." ALAN Review .Volume 27, No.1. pgs. 60-63.
