Faculty Research Profiles: Karla Moller

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• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Children's Literature and Language Arts, University of Georgia, 2001
• M.Ed., Foreign Language Education, University of Georgia, 1991
• B.A., Psychology and German, University of Georgia, 1984

Key Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010--
• Chair, Language and Literacy Division, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008--
• Clinical Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2010
• Instructional Director, Center for Education in Small Urban Communities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2009
• Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-2008
• Assistant Professor, Department of Language Education, Indiana University, 2001-2002
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Language Education, University of Georgia-Athens, 2001-2001
• Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Language Education, University of Georgia- Athens, 1996-2000

Activities & Honors

• Editorial Review Board, Research in the Teaching of English, 2010- present
• Editorial Review Board, Journal of Children's Literature, National Council of Teachers of English Children's Literature Assembly, 2010- present
• Department of Curriculum and Instruction Nominee for a Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 2010
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois, 2010
• College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award for Visiting Faculty, College of Education, 2009
• College of Education Nominee for a Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Education, 2009
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois, 2009
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois, 2008
• Department Nominee, COE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department Nominee, COE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 2008
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, 2007
• Co-Chairperson, Ethnicity, Racism, Multilingualism Innovative Community Group for the National Reading Conference, National Reading Conference, 2006-2008
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
• 2006 Language and Literacy Student Organization Faculty Award, Presented by the graduate students in the Language and Literacy Division, Language and Literacy Graduate Student Organization, 2006
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
• Editorial Review Board, Journal of Literacy Research, 2003-2008
• Conference Program Chair, Literature Special Interest Group, AERA Conferences 2004, 2005, American Educational Research Association, 2003-2005
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
• Conference Program Co-Chair, Literacy Learning and Practice in Multilingual and Multicultural Settings (Area 8 and Area 11), National Reading Conference, 2002-2004
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
• Editorial Review Board, The New Advocate, 2001-2003
• Student Outstanding Research Award Finalist, National Reading Conference, 2001
• Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, The Spencer Foundation, 2000-2001
• President, Alpha Epsilon Alpha International Reading Honor Society, University of Georgia, 2000-2001
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia Department of Academic Affairs, University of Georgia, 2000
• Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Georgia Chapter, Kappa Delta Pi, 2000
• Fulbright Fellowship, Germany, Fulbright Program, 1986-1987

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Faculty Fellow, Bureau of Educational Research, 2006
• Principal Investigator, Creating a Connected and Collaborative Community: Exploring Effective Literacy Pedagogy in and for a Richly Diverse School, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, 2005
• Fellow, Spencer Dissertation for Research Related to Education, The Spencer Foundation, 2000

Selected Publications

• Möller, K. J. (2008). Reading our richly diverse world: Conceptualizing a response development zone. In W. Brooks & J. McNair (Eds.), Embracing, Evaluating and Examining African American Children's and Young Adult Literature (pp. 151-186). Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
• Möller, K. J. (2007). Bernice E. Leary: Reading specialist, curriculum researcher, and anthologist of children's literature. In S. Israel (Ed.), Reading pioneers: Historical accounts of earlier, outstanding contributions to the field of reading (pp. 220-246). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
• Möller, K. J., & Hug, B. (2006). Connections across literacy and science instruction in early childhood education: Interweaving disciplines in pre-service teacher education. The Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 55, 195-211.
• Hug, B., & Möller, K. J. (2005). Collaboration and connectedness in two teacher educators’ shared self-study. Studying Teacher Education: A Journal of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices, 1, 123-140.
• Möller, K. J. (2004/2005). Creating zones of possibility for struggling readers: A study of one fourth grader’s shifting roles in literature discussion. Journal of Literacy Research, 36, 419-460.