Dr. Chisholm's curriculum vita [PDF]
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
- M.A., University of Chicago
- B.A., University of Notre Dame
Teaching Areas
- Adolescent Literacy
- English Methods
- Young Adult Literature
- Qualitative Research Methods
Research Interests
- Classroom discourse
- Inquiry-based discussions of language and literature
- Multimodal literacy practices
- Arts-integrated ELA instruction
Professional Activities
- Co-Editor, Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice
- Special Issue Guest Co-Editor, English Teaching: Practice & Critique
- Editorial Review Board Member, English Teaching: Practice & Critique
- Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
- Editorial Review Board Member, Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Professional Memberships
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- International Literacy Association (ILA)
- Literacy Research Association (LRA)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- Assembly for Research (NCTEAR)
- English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE)
- Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE (ALAN)
Selected Recent Publications
- Spector, K., Chisholm, J. S., & Whitmore, K. F. (2024). Learning and teaching literature with the arts for social justice. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Cook, M. P., Chisholm, J. S., & Rose-Dougherty, T. (2023). Preservice teachers and discursive shielding during critical conversations. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 20(4), 343-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2022.2042878
- Chisholm, J. S., Gast, M. J., & Shelton, A. L. (2022). Culturally responsive caring and
emergent tensions in a bilingual mentoring program in a diverse school. In V.
Vasudevan, N. Gross, P. Nagarajan, & K. Clonan-Roy (Eds.), Care-based methodologies: Reimagining qualitative research with youth in US schools (pp. 159-171). New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
- Chisholm, J. S., & Cook, M. P. (2021). Examining readers’ critical literature circle discussions of Looking for Alaska. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 65(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1169
- Heron-Hruby, A., Chisholm, J. S., & Olinger, A. R. (2020). “It doesn’t feel like a conversation”: How digital field experiences disrupt preservice teachers’ conceptions of writing response. English Education, 53(1), 72-93.
- Chisholm, J. S., Alford, J., Halliday, L., & Cox, F. (2019). Teacher agency in English language arts
teaching: A scoping review of the literature. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 18(2), 124-152.
- Chisholm, J. S., & Whitmore, K. F. (2018). Reading challenging texts: Layering literacies through the arts. Routledge & National Council of Teachers of English.
- Chisholm, J. S., & Olinger, A. R. (2017). "She's definitely the artist one": How learner identities mediate multimodal composing. Research in the Teaching of English, 52(2), 122-155.
