Sarah W. Beck
Assistant Professor of English Education
Phone: 212-998 5473
Email: sarah.beck@nyu.edu
Degrees Held
- A.B.
Harvard College
1991
- Ed.D.
Harvard University
2002
- M.F.A.
Washington University
1993
Awards
- Zirin Award
- Steinhardt Research Challenge Fund Grant
- Spencer Research Training Grant
Publications
- Beck, S. (2006). Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the teaching and learning of writing. Research in the Teaching of English, 40, 4, pp.
- Beck, S., Coker, D.A., Hemphill, L. & Bellinger, D. (2002). Literacy Skills of Children with Early Corrective Heart Surgery. In J. Hoffman, D. Schallert, C. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, B. Maloch (Eds.) The 51st National Reading Conference Yearbook. Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.
- Beck, S. (2001). Editor’s Review of Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning Through Collaborative Inquiry and Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms. Harvard Educational Review, 71, 2, 296-309.
- Beck, S. & Nabors-Olah, L. (Eds.), (2001). Beyond the Here and Now: Perspectives on Language and Literacy. (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series No. 35.) Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College.
- Duke, N.K. & Beck, S. (1999). Education should consider alternative formats for the dissertation. Educational Researcher, 28, 3, 31-36.
- Cazden, C. & Beck, S. W. (2003). Classroom discourse. In A. Graesser, M. Gernsbacher, & S. Goldman (Eds.) Handbook of Discourse Processes (pp. 165-198). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum..
Editorial Boards
- 2004-present: Journal of Literacy Research, Editorial Board Member
Research Interests
adolescent literacy urban education field-based research methods equity issues in education cultural contexts for literacy learning academic discourse