Anne Haas Dyson

Anne Haas Dyson is a former teacher of young children and currently a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among her previous appointments was as a long-time professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Dyson studies the childhood cultures and literacy learning of young school children. Among her books are Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (1993), which received the National Council of Teachers of English David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research, Writing Superheroes (1997), The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write (2003), and with Celia Genishi, Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times (2009).