Carol Donovan, Ph.D.
Professor, Literacy Education
Director, Belser Parton Literacy Center
Departments and Programs
Multiple Abilities Program
Special Education and Multiple Abilities
Reading Specialist Master’s Program
Education
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1997
Areas of Research
Biography
Carol Donovan is a Professor of Literacy Education who received her Ph.D. in Multicultural Teacher and Child Education with an emphasis in reading and writing from the University of New Mexico in 1997. In addition to serving as Director of the Literacy Center, she teaches courses in the undergraduate Multiple Abilities Program (MAP), an elementary level general and special education dual-licensure program in the department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities. In addition to teaching literacy methods courses in MAP, she teaches graduate literacy courses for the Reading Specialist Program, an online master’s degree and certification and provides professional development for teachers. Her research interests include children's and teachers' selections and uses of books for science, children's genre knowledge development, and children's writing development in different genre. She has published her work in journals including Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, Elementary School Journal, and Language Arts.
Professor, Literacy Education
Director, Belser Parton Literacy Center
Departments and Programs
Multiple Abilities Program
Special Education and Multiple Abilities
Reading Specialist Master’s Program
Education
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1997
Areas of Research
- Children’s Genre Knowledge Development
- Children’s Writing Development in Different Genre
- Writing Instruction
- Teachers’ and Children’s Selections and Use of Different Types of Texts
Biography
Carol Donovan is a Professor of Literacy Education who received her Ph.D. in Multicultural Teacher and Child Education with an emphasis in reading and writing from the University of New Mexico in 1997. In addition to serving as Director of the Literacy Center, she teaches courses in the undergraduate Multiple Abilities Program (MAP), an elementary level general and special education dual-licensure program in the department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities. In addition to teaching literacy methods courses in MAP, she teaches graduate literacy courses for the Reading Specialist Program, an online master’s degree and certification and provides professional development for teachers. Her research interests include children's and teachers' selections and uses of books for science, children's genre knowledge development, and children's writing development in different genre. She has published her work in journals including Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, Elementary School Journal, and Language Arts.