Francis J. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Teaching & Learning

Ritter Hall 439
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091

phone: (215) 204-6157
francis.sullivan@temple.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Language in Education
  • Ed.M. Temple University, Secondary Education
  • B.A. LaSalle College, English

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Literacy as a Social Practice
  • Academic Literacy in Multicultural Societies
  • Writing Assessment
  • Literacy and Technology

Recent Scholarship

Sullivan, Francis J. Style, ideology, and double-consciousness: teaching writing to `Other People's Children' (review essay). Journal of Teaching Writing, 14.1 &2, 1995, pp. 151-172.

Sullivan, Francis J. Critical theory and systemic linguistics: textualizing the `Contact Zone.' JAC.- A Journal of Composition Theory, 15.3, October, 1995, pp. 411-434.

Sullivan, Francis J. and Baren, R. Simulating the workplace in an engineering technology course: a rhetorical model. Journal of Engineering Education, July, 1997, pp. 279-284.

Sullivan, Francis J. Calling writers' bluffs: the social production of writing ability in university placement testing. Assessing Writing,4.l, 1997, pp. 53-81.

Sullivan, Francis J. Dysfunctional workers, functional texts: the transformation of work in institutional procedure manuals. Written Communication, 14.3, July 1997, pp. 313-359.

Sullivan, Francis J. (First Author); Lyon, Arabella; Lebofsky, Dennis; Goldblatt, Eli; and Wells, Susan. Student needs and strong composition: the dialectics of writing program reform. College Composition and Communication, 38.3, October, 1997, pp. 44-63.