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Stanton E.F. Wortham
Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
Office Phone: (215) 898-6307
FAX: (215) 898-4399
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Education
1985: B.A., Psychology, with highest honors, Swarthmore
College
1992: Ph.D., Committee on Human Development, University of
Chicago
Areas of Expertise
Discourse and narrative analysis
Linguistic anthropology
Immigrant students
Identity development and social identification
Learning in practice
Professional Biography
From his days as an undergraduate at Swarthmore, Dr. Wortham
has pursued interdisciplinary studies that stretch across anthropology,
education, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. As a graduate student, he continued
his interdisciplinary training in the Committee on Human Development at the
University of Chicago. His first job was at Bates College, where he taught
anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology of education,
as well as supervising secondary student teachers. In 1998, he came to Penn
GSE, where he currently serves as associate dean. In the fall of 2002 and in
the 2006-07 year, he served as the interim dean. At Penn, he also serves as
associated faculty in the Annenberg School for Communication and in the
Anthropology and Folklore Graduate Groups in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Dr. Wortham has written widely on classroom discourse and
the linguistic anthropology of education. He has been a Spencer Foundation
Dissertation Fellow and a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow. He
serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology & Education Quarterly,
Theory & Psychology, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics &
Education, Mind, Culture & Activity, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse
Processes, Pedagogies and the Journal of Latinos and Education. In 1997, he was
awarded the first annual Maine Campus Compact Faculty Service-Learning Award.
In 2001, he received the American Educational Research Association Cattell
Early Career Award for Programmatic Research
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Wortham’s research applies techniques from linguistic
anthropology to uncover social positioning in apparently neutral talk. He
studies the linguistic details of how interactional and social processes can go
on under the surface of classroom discussions about subject matter. He is
particularly interested in interrelations between the official curriculum and
covert interactional patterns in classroom discourse and in how the processes
of academic learning and social identity development interconnect and
facilitate each other. He has also studied interactional positioning that
speakers accomplish in media discourse and in autobiographical narrative. Dr.
Wortham’s work has involved action research and service learning, ethnography
in urban and rural high schools and their surrounding communities, and
discourse analysis. More information about his work can be found at
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/~stantonw.
For a video presentation by Dr. Wortham on theories of learning – behaviorist, cognitivist,
and sociocultural – and how these relate to formal and informal
learning, go to http://masielearning.pbwiki.com/theory. Courses Taught
EDUC 645: Methods of Discourse Analysis
EDUC 646: Education, Culture, and Society
EDUC 647: Linguistic Anthropology of Education
EDUC 672: Introduction to Ethnographic Methods
EDUC 806: Narrating the Self
Selected Publications
Wortham, S.E.F. (2006). Learning identity: The joint
emergence of social identification
and academic learning. New York: Cambridge University Press
Wortham, S.E.F. (2005). Socialization beyond the speech
event. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 15, 95-112
Agha, A. & Wortham, S.E.F. (Guest Editors). Discourse across speech-events:
Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in social. A special issue of Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology, 15(1), 2005
Wortham, S.E.F. (2004). From good student to outcast: The
emergence of a classroom identity. Ethos, 32, 164-187
Wortham, S.E.F. (2004). The interdependence of social
identification and learning. American Educational Research Journal, 41,
715-750
Wortham, S.E.F. (2003). Accomplishing identity in
participant-denoting discourse. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 13, 1-22
Wortham, S.E.F. & Rymes, B. (Eds.) (2003). Linguistic
anthropology of education. Westport, CT: Praeger
Wortham, S.E.F., Murillo, E., & Hamann, E. (Eds.).
(2001). Education in the new Latino diaspora. Ablex
Wortham, S.E.F. (2001). Narratives in action. New York:
Teachers College Press
Wortham, S.E.F. (2001). Interactionally situated cognition:
A classroom example. Cognitive Science, 25, 37–66
Wortham, S.E.F. (1994). Acting out participant examples in
the classroom. John Benjamins Publishing.
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