Kelly Chandler-Olcott
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Director of Undergraduate and Master's Programs in English Education Grades 7-12
Reading and Language Arts
English Education ,
E-mail: kpchandl@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 201 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-5183
Education:
Ed.D. University of Maine, 1998
Kelly Chandler-Olcott is an associate professor and chair of Syracuse University’s Reading and Language Arts Center, where she directs the English Education program. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in content literacy, English methods, literacy and technology, and writing for professional publication. She was awarded a Meredith Recognition Award for excellence in university teaching in 2000. A former secondary English and social studies teacher, Dr. Chandler-Olcott holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of Maine. Her work has been published by such journals as English Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and Reading Research Quarterly. She has also co-authored five books, the most recent being Tutoring Adolescent Literacy Learners: A Guide for Volunteers (Guilford, 2005) with Dr. Kathleen Hinchman and The Right to Read and Write: Literacy for Students with Autism (Paul Brookes, forthcoming) with Dr. Paula Kluth. Dr. Chandler-Olcott’s research interests include adolescents’ technology-mediated literacy practices, classroom-based inquiry by teachers, and content literacy. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she and three colleagues—Dr. Kathleen Hinchman, Dr. Helen Doerr, and Dr. Joanna Masingila—are currently completing a three-year study of the literacy demands that reform-based mathematics curricula present for students in urban secondary classrooms.
