About
Children’s/YA Literature; Teaching Composition; Interdisciplinary Literacy; Cartoons/Comics; Digital Media Education
Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction / Literacy Studies, University of South Florida, 2020
M.A. Journalism, University of Alabama Aug2008 (Knight Foundation Fellow), 2008
B.A. Creative Writing, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, 2006 Publications
Journal Articles
Anderson, A. W. (2018). Caught in a web of abjection: High-stakes testing in Miriam Cohen’s First grade takes a test and Andrew Clements’ The report card. Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly, 49(1), 19-33. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-018-9350-1
Anderson, A. W., Smith, P., Schneider, J. J., and Frier, A. (2015). Live! From Mount Olympus: Theatricizing two analyses of a multimodal, multimedia composition. Creative Approaches to Research, 8(1), 75-96. Retrieved from http://aqr.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CAR8_1_Full.pdf
Anderson, A. W. (2013). Straddling boundaries: Gutta Percha Willie and the 1870 Education Act. North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, 32, 1-20.
Book Chapters
Anderson, A. W. (2016). ‘Out of the everywhere into here’: Rhetoricity and transcendence as common ground for spiritual research. In J. Lin, R. L. Oxford, and T. E. Culhman (Eds.). Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm: Exploring New Ways of Knowing, Researching, and Being. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Anderson, A. W. (2016). Whose idea is it anyway? Big ideas in Jurassic Park, Jumanji, and The cat in the hat. In J. J. Schneider (Ed.). The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children’s Literature: From Poets and Pop-ups to Princesses and Porridge [E-book]. USF Scholar Commons: Retrieved from http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/childrens_lit_textbook/ (article within a book chapter)
Anderson, A. W. & Powell, R. L. (2016). The world is flat, Stanley: Globalization, ethnocentricity, and absurdity. In A. Wannamaker and J. M. Miskec (Eds.). The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture. London, U.K.: Routledge.
Anderson, A. W. & Powell, R. L. (2016). The world is flat, Stanley: Globalization, ethnocentricity, and absurdity. In A. Wannamaker and J. M. Miskec (Eds.). The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture. London, U.K.: Routledge.
