17th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies

Keynote Speakers

James Gee
James Gee is professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Gee's work over the past decade has centered on the development of an integrated theory of language, literacy, and schooling, a theory that draws on work in socially situated cognition, sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, language development, discourse studies, critical theory, and applied linguistics. Professor Gee's recent work has extended his ideas on language, literacy, and society to deal with the so-called "new capitalism" and its cognitive, social, and political implications for literacy and schooling. He has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education. His books include Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990, Second Edition 1996); The Social Mind (1992); Introduction to Human Language (1993); The New Work Order; Behind the Language of the New Capitalism (1996, with Glynda Hull and Colin Lankshear); and An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method (1999).

Elinor Ochs
Elinor Ochs is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA and Director of UCLA's Center on the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF), one of six Sloan Centers on Working Families, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program on Dual-Career Working Middle Class Families. Her work with CELF Continues Ochs' career-long investigation of language socialization in multiple domains: From childrearing in Western Samoa to theory building among theoretical physicists, to conversations during family dinners. She is the author of Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village (1988, Cambridge) and co-author (with Lisa Capps) of Living narrative (2001, Harvard) and Constructing panic (1995, Harvard). She has received countless awards and honors including a Guggenheim and a MacArthur ("genius") Award.

Kris Gutiérrez
Kris Guitérrez is professor at the University of California-Los Angeles. Professor Kris Guitérrez research interests include a study of the sociocultural contexts of literacy development, particularly the study of the acquisition of academic literacy for language minority students. Her research also focuses on understanding the relationship between language, culture, development, and pedagogies of empowerment. She has published in numerous journals, including Harvard Educational review, Bilingual Review Journal, Mind Culture, & Activity, Language Arts, and Urban Education. Among her work can be noted; Gutiérrez, K., Asato, J., Santos, M., and Gotanda, N. (2002). Backlash pedagogy: Language and culture and the politics of reform. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 24 (4), 335-351.Gutierrez, K., Asato, J., Pacheco, M, Moll, L., Olson, K., Horng, E., Ruiz, R., Garcia., E., & Mccarty, M. (2002). "Sounding American": The consequences of new reforms on English language learners. Reading Research Quarterly. 37 (3), 328-343.

Carol D. Lee
Carol D. Lee is professor at the Northwestern University in Chicago. Professor Lee has developed a theory of cultural modeling that provides a framework for design and enactment of curriculum that draws on forms of prior knowledge that traditionally undeserved students bring to classrooms. The design principles that undergird her research involve ways of drawing on forms of cultural capital, especially in terms of community language practices, of African American adolescents who are speakers of African American English Vernacular. She if the author of Signifying as a Scaffold for Literacy Interpretation: The Pedagogical Implications of an African American Discourse Genre (NTCE, 1993), and co-editor with Peter Smagorinsky, of Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research (Cambridge 1999). She has published in numerous journals, including Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Journal of Black Psychology, and the Journal of Negro Education.