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Dr. Jenn Raskauskas
Associate Professor
College of Education and Social Work - Literacy (Reading)
Bio
Dr. Jenn Raskauskas earned her B.S in Education and B.A in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; her M.A. in International and Transcultural Studies with a specialization in language, literacy, and technology from Teachers College Columbia University in New York, NY; and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Writing Studies from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught in Milton, Pennsylvania; Rome, Italy; Harlem, New York; and Urbana-Champaign, IL. Her research interests include children’s writing, with particular interests in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms and children who work together to compose one text; sociocultural and new literacy studies perspectives; and international education.
Education
- B.A., B.S., Bucknell University
- M.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign