Joanne Larson
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Joanne C. Larson is an American education scholar. She is the Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education and Human Development and associate director of research at the university's Center for Urban Education Success.[1][2] Her research is in New Literacy Studies and focuses on language and literacy practices in elementary and urban classrooms, particularly their relationship to social relations, power, and participation in literacy events.[1][2] Her more recent work has drawn on Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia and on critical geography to examine the relationship between space and literacy.
Larson joined the Warner School faculty in 1995.[1] In 2007, the University of Rochester announced her appointment as the Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education.[3] She has served as chair of the teaching and curriculum program and as associate director of research at the Center for Urban Education Success.[3][2]
