Martin Nystrand <nystrand who-is-at ssc.wisc.edu>
Martin Nystrand (nystrand who-is-at ssc.wisc.edu)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:10:03 -0600
I am professor of English and Education at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where I am the Wisconsin director of the National
Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA). I also coedit
Written Communication with Deborah Brandt and Steve Witte. My research
interests focus on the role of reciprocity in discourse, and I have done
work on both writing (The structure of written communication: Studies in
reciprocity between writers and readers, 1986) and classroom discourse and
learning (Opening dialogue: Understanding the dynamics of language and
learning in the English classroom, 1997). Key influences in my research
have been Rommetveit and Bakhtin. My interests in writing have recently led
me, with support from the Spencer Foundation, to investigate the
intellectual climate and cultural context that gave rise to empirical
research on writing during the 1960s, and for this I am constructing an oral
history of six important researchers who were, with one exception, all
doctoral students at Harvard at that time: Courtney Cazden, Janet Emig, John
Mellon, James Moffett, Charles Read, and Frank Smith (Moffett's the
exception: he was a research associate). At the English Center, with
sociologists Adam Gamoran and Larry Wu, I am continuing my work on classroom
discourse, investigating how classroom interaction creates and sustains an
environment that mediates literacy learning. This work is both quantitative
and qualitative in methods.
Martin Nystrand
Professor, Department of English (608 263-3820)
Editor, Written Communication (608 263-4512)
Director, Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA)
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
685 Education Sciences
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison WI 53706
608 263-0563 voice
608 263-6448 fax