George G. Hruby

• Selected as a New Faculty Research Mentor by American Educational Research Association Division C New Faculty Mentoring Program, New York City, 2008 [appointed to Kate Bohn-Gettler, Wichita State University].
• Listed in Who’s Who in American Education, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
• Awarded New Faculty Research Grant for "Pragmatic Theories of Reading and Literacy Development: Bridging the Gap Between Educational Research and the Developmental Sciences," funded by Utah State University, 2005-2006, $11,800.
• Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student (Social Sciences and Professional Studies Division), University of Georgia Graduate School, April 2001
• Selection to the Graduate Student Mentoring Seminar Weekend, April 2000, American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA American Reading Forum Scholarship, 1999
• University of Georgia Graduate School Academic Assistantship, 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 academic years (Departmental Assistantship all other years)
• Graduate Fellow (first ever selected), Institute of Behavioral Research, Cognitive Studies Group, University of Georgia, 1997

Book

• Sturtevant, E. G., Boyd, F. B., Brozo, W. G., Hinchman, K. A., Moore, D. W., Alvermann, D. E., Anders, P. L., Bean, T. W., Irvin, J. L., Ivey, G., Li, Guofang, Marsh, J. P., Moje, E. B., Vacca, R. T., Hruby, G. (2006). Principled practices for adolescent literacy: A framework for instruction and policy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Hruby, G. G. & Matthews, M. (2008). Developmental aspects of reading and literacy: Envisioning literacy education as a developmental science. Paper in the Yearbook of the American Reading Forum 2007.
• Hruby, G. G. (2007). Keynote address précis: On predicting big things in literacy research: Trendlines, perennials, serendipity and stealth. Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, 2006.
• Lemarchand, L. J., & Hruby, G. G. (2004). Peer-led professional development in two university literacy courses: An exemplary dyad. Journal of Language and Learning, 2, 129-141.
• Ro, J. M., Eakle, A. J., Hruby, G., Rush, L., Alvermann, D. E., & Aaron, I.E. (2004). Writing a literacy dissertation: Looking back, looking forward. American Reading Forum Yearbook, 2003. Available: http://www.americanreadingforum.org/03_yearbook/html/Ro.htm
• Hruby, G. G. (2001). Constructing the ecological dynamics of learning environments. Invited Keynote Paper, Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, 2000. Whitewater, WI: American Reading Forum.
• Hruby, G. G. (2001). The descent of Internet publications: A review of literacy journals online. Reading Research and Instruction 40, 243-252.
• Hruby, G. G. (2001). Sociological, postmodern, and "new realism" perspectives in social constructionism: Implications for reading research. Reading Research Quarterly, 36, 48-62.
• Hruby, G. G. (2000). The biofunctional theory of knowledge and ecologically informed education research. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 21 (1 & 2), 97-103.
• Alvermann, D. E., & Hruby, G. G. (2000). Mentoring and reporting research: A concern for aesthetics. Reading Research Quarterly, 35, 46-63. Reprinted in J. E. Readence & D. M. Barone (Eds.), Envisioning the Future of Literacy: Articles from Reading Research Quarterly. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
• Font, G., & Hruby, G. G. (2000). Constructing the –isms of making meaning. Literacy at a new horizon: The twenty-second yearbook; a peer-reviewed publication of the College Reading Association Yearbook, 2000, 118-130.
• Hruby, G. G. (1998). Multivocality in stance and theory: Complicating Rosenblatt's continuum. The Florida Reading Quarterly, 35 (2), 36-37.
• Hruby, G. G. (1996). Zora Neale Hurston as proto-existentialist in hot pursuit of the American dream. Langston Hughes Review, 13 (2), 45-53

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Alvermann, D.E., & Hruby, G.G. (2005). Fictive representation: An alternative method for reporting research. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. Squire, & J. Jensen (Eds.), Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (pp. 260-272). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Hruby, G. G. (2004) Learning as the development of environmental negotiation. In B. Davis & D. Sumara (eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 complexity science and educational research conference (pp. 247-261). Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta.
• Alvermann, D.E., & Hruby, G.G. (2003). Fictive representation: An alternative method for reporting research. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. Squire, & J. Jensen (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (2nd ed., pp. 260-272). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Hruby, G. G. (2002). Transactional theory. In Guzzetti, B. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literacy Research in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press.
• Hruby, G. G. (2002). Social constructivism and social constructionism. In Guzzetti, B. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literacy Research in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABCCLIO Press.
• Alvermann, D. E., & Hruby, G. G. (2001). Content area reading and literature studies. In J. Brophy (Ed.), Subject-specific instructional methods and activities (pp. 51-81). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science.

Book Reviews

• Hruby, G. G., & Hynd, G. W. (2006). Decoding Shaywitz: The modular brain and its discontents [book review essay on "Overcoming dyslexia"]. Reading Research Quarterly, 41, 544-556.
• Hruby, G. G. (2004). Evolution (or Not?) of the representational mind [review of the book "The evolution of agency and other essays"]. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 11, 166-169.
• Hruby, G. G. (1999). Cognition and the mind [review of the book "Teaching with the brain in mind"]. Roeper Review, 21, 326-327.

Works in Progress

• Hruby, G. G. (In press). Grounding reading comprehension theory in the neuroscience literatures. In, G. Duffy, and S. Israel (eds.), Handbook of research on reading comprehension. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates Taylor and Francis Group.
• Hruby, G. G. (invited book review). Review of “Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Dec 2008/Jan 2009.
• Hruby, G. G. (Contracted book). Reading comprehension and literacy development: The quest for a comprehensive theory. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Hruby, G. G. (Section Editor). (Contracted handbook). Perspectives on reading disability. In R. Allington and A. McGill-Frazen (eds.), Handbook of reading disabilities research. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbum Taylor & Francis Group.
• Hruby, G. G. & Matthews, M. (Proposal under revision). Issues and Studies in Literacy Development. Proposed edited volume, authors confirmed.

Paper Presentations, National and International

• Hruby, G. G. (2008, March). Current neuroscience on reading comprehension. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Division C, New York City, NY.
• Hruby, G. G. (2007, December). Literacy handbooks: From below and within. Panel session presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL, with Pat Alexander, Donna Alvermann, Jonathan Eakle, Gary Moorman, Victoria Risko, and Mona Matthews.
• Hruby, G. G. (2007, December). Mapping comprehension: Floating signifiers in the brain. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2007, December). What current neuroscience suggests about reading comprehension: A field guide. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.
• Hruby, G. G. (2007, November). Reading instruction and the neurosciences: Frameworks for researching reading comprehension and instruction. Paper presented at the College Reading Association annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Hruby, G. G. (2007, April). Reading by the mirrored light of systems-based neuroscience research. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
• Matthews, M., & Hruby, G. (2006, December). Developmental aspects of reading and literacy: Envisioning literacy education as a developmental science. Problems Court Session for the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2006, November). Reading and visualization in embodied brains. In K. A. Krasny (Chair), Embodiment and the science of consciousness: Implications for reading and writing. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
• Hruby, G. G. (2005, December). Predicting big things in literacy research: Trendlines, perennials, serendipity and stealth. Invited Closing General Session Paper for the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. & Clelland, P. (2005, December). Searching for tomorrow’s next big things in past ARF yearbooks. Paper presentation for the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2005, December). Neuroendocrinological correlates to the socio-emotional foundations of reading comprehension. In G. G. Hruby (Chair), Embodied and socially constructed foundations for reading comprehension: Current complements to traditional models. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL.
• Alvermann, D. E., & Hruby, G. G. (2005, May). Reconsidering fictive representation. In J. Flood & D. Lapp (Chairs), Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts: Meet the editors and architects. Publication Session for the International Reading Association, San Antonio, TX.
• Hruby, G. G. (2005, April) Minds, brains, and the category mistakes they entertain. In G. G. Hruby (Chair), Peril and promise in educational neuroscience. Symposium for the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Hruby, G. G. (2004, December). Transactional dynamics in the development of language and social identity. In G. G. Hruby (Chair), Legacy and Potential in K – 12 Literacy Development Research: Visceral, Personal, and Sociocultural Perspectives. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
• Hruby, G. G. & Clelland, P. (2004, December). Reading Wars, Paradigms, and Pepperian Hypotheses: A Formal Content Analysis of Literacy Research Motifs. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
• Hruby, G. G. & Clelland, P. (2004, December). Twenty-five years of metaphors on reading: A content analysis of paradigmatic motifs in the ARF Yearbooks. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, Florida.
• Hruby, G. G. (2003, December). Theories of reading and literacy development: Some lessons from the developmental sciences. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.
• Hruby, G. G. (2003, October). Literacy learning as the development of environmental negotiation. Invited presentation at the Complexity Sciences and Educational Research conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Hruby, G. G. & Lemarchand, L. J. (2003, July). Developmental dynamics in a university foreign language and culture classroom. Paper presented at the Learning Conference, London, UK.
• Hruby, G. G. (2002, December). Meaning as an ecologically mediated bodily state. In M. Hagood (chair), Bodies that speak. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2002, December). Rainbow-colored phonemes in fMRI research: What you see is what, exactly? In J. M. Pickle (chair), Literacy and the neurosciences: Myriad perspectives. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2002, December). The nature of transaction in reading environments: Examples from several fields. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2002, November). Challenging Literacy Research’s Embrace of Descartes’ Error. In J. Jensen, J. Flood, D. Lapp, & J. R. Squire (chairs), The authors speak out: previews from the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, 2nd edition. Panel for the National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA.
• Alvermann, D., Hruby, G., Ro, J. M., Eakle, J., & Rush, L. (2002, December). Writing a literacy dissertation: Looking backward, looking forward. Panel for the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. G. (2001, December). Socionaturalism and the investigation of adolescent literacy development. In D. Alvermann (Chair), Literate bodies and potential ecologies. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX.
• Grace, T., Hinchman, K., & Hruby, G. G. (2001, December). Slippery descriptors and wiggle-room in professional identity appropriation. In J. Readence (chair), Examining the doctoral mentoring relationship from multiple perspectives. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, TX.
• Hruby, G. (2000, December). The construction of classroom realities: The ecological dynamics of learning environments. Keynote address delivered at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. (2000, December). A review and discussion of the neuroscience research on reading: Cautions and caveats. Roundtable presented at the National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.
• Hruby, G. (2000, April). Discussant in Carol Bohlin (chair) Insights for education from the neurosciences. Symposium held at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
• Font, G., Hruby, G. & Montero, K. (2000, December). Designing meaning-based literacy classrooms for the new millennium. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hagood, M. & Hruby, G. (2000, December). Reconceptualizing and recontextualizing reader's pleasures: The recuperation of the adolescent mind/body split. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. (1999, December). Neuroscientific research on reading and what it fails to tell us. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL.
• Hruby, G. (1999, May). The promise of multivocal heuristics: Redimensionalizing Rosenblatt Redux. Paper presented at the International Reading Association, San Diego, CA.
• Hruby, G. (1999, April). The ecologically situated, Darwinian brain: A neo-naturalist take on schema theory. Roundtable presented at the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
• Hruby, G. (1999, April). Discussant in Carol Bohlin (chair) Brain research and its implications for education theory and practice. Symposium held at the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
• Hruby, G., & Font, G. (1999, December). Read here now: Implications of situativist theory for reading instruction and research. Roundtable presented at the National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL.
• Alvermann, D., Hruby, G., Sumara, D., & Laidlaw, L. (1999, April). Mentoring in literacy education: 'The commonplace book' as an archive for learning. Roundtable presented at the American Educational Research Association. Montreal, Canada
• Font, G., & Hruby, G. (1999, November). Constructing the -isms of making meaning. Roundtable presented at the College Reading Association, Hilton Head, SC.
• Hruby, G. (1998, December). The magnanimous synthesis of parochial realism and the factions of literacy research. Roundtable presented at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.
• Hruby, G. (1998, November). Complicating Rosenblatt: A multistance heuristic in four voices. Paper presented at the College Reading Association, Myrtle Beach, SC.
• Hruby, G. & Montgomery, T. (1998, December). Multivocality in theory and stance: Complicating Rosenblatt's continuum. Roundtable presented at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.
• Alvermann, D. & Hruby, G. (1998, April) A survey of literacy teacher educators' mentoring relationships. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
• Alvermann, D. & Hruby, G. (1998, April) Professor Carpy: An alternative representation of qualitative interview data. Paper presented at the Invisible College, San Diego, CA.
• Alvermann, D., Hruby, G., Hoffman, J., Patterson, B., Salas, R., O'Neal, S., Harste, J., Lysaker J. & Schmidt, K. (1998, December). Over-writing: An alternative approach to data analysis and write-up. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.
• Montgomery, T., & Hruby, G. (1998, November). Complicating Rosenblatt's continuum: An invitation for collaborative research. Paper presented at the College Reading Association, Myrtle Beach, SC.
• Moon, J., & Hruby, G. (1998, December). Structural metaphors in preservice teachers' characterization of literacy instruction. Roundtable presented at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX.
• Lively, M., Hruby, G. & Kuhn, M. (1997, November). How hypertext blurs the boundaries between oral and written language: Implications for critical reading. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Paper Presentations, Local and Regional

• Hruby, G. G. (2007, March). A brief consumer guide to neuroscience research on reading. Paper presented at the Utah Association of Teacher Educators annual conference, Orem, UT.
• Hruby, G. & Montgomery, T. (1998, October). The promise of multivocal heuristics: Redimensionalizing Rosenblatt. Paper presented at the Florida Reading Association, Jacksonville, FL.
• Lively, M & Hruby, G. (1998, October). Student talk in and beyond the hyper-classroom. Paper presented at the Florida Reading Association, Jacksonville, FL.

Paper Presentations Proposed

• Hruby, G. G. (under review). Parsing and aligning reading comprehension subprocess categories between the reading education and neuroscience literatures. Paper proposed for the National Reading Conference, December, 2008, Orlando, FL.

Discussant Roles

• Hruby, G. G. (Discussant). (2004, December). In J. Ratliff (Chair), Reading Visual Text: Reality Television Informs Literacy Researchers. Symposium for the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas (with Donna Alvermann, Linda Labbo, Stephen Phelps, and Josephine Young).
• Hruby, G. G. (Discussant). (December, 2004). Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Literacy Research. Paper session for the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
• Hruby, G. G. (Discussant). (December, 2004). Multiple Perspectives on Literacy Research. Paper session for the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
• Hruby, G. G. (Discussant). (December, 2004). Photo Analysis, Media Production, and Literacy. Paper session at the American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, Florida.
• Hruby, G. (Discussant & Panelist). (2001, April). Multiple intelligences in the lab and in the field: Initiating a dialogue between neuroscience and classroom achievement. Panel for the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.
• Hruby, G. (Chair & Discussant). (1999, December). Theories of literacy learning and their application to mentoring in the academy. Symposium held at the National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL.

Sessions Chaired (excluding chaired sessions above)

• Hruby, G. G. (Chair). (November, 2005). Educational research and the neurosciences: Questions, directions, collaborations, and funding. Symposium for the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. With G. Reid Lyon (NIH/NICHD), Bruno della-Chiesa (OECD), Kurt W. Fischer (Harvard), Julie A. Fiez (U. of Pittsburgh), Stephen R. Campbell (Simon Fraser U.), & Michael Atherton (AERA).
• Hruby, G. G. (Chair). (2005). Developmental neuroscience: Directions and implications for educational research. Symposium for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, Canada.
• Hruby, G. G. (Chair). (2005). Exploring instruction, interaction and discourse amongst adolescent readers. Poster session for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, Canada
• Hruby G. G. (Chair) (2002, April). Naturalizing neuroscience: Cognition and learning in humans and other natural organisms. Symposium for the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
• Hruby, G. (Chair). (2001, April). What and how we know about what and how we know. Symposium for the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA.

Local & University

• 2006 Member of Secondary Education Department Chair Search Committee
• 2006 Invited to present Rich County secondary retreat in-service
• 2005 Consulting (no fee), Logan Comprehensive High School
• 2004 Member College of Education and Human Services (CEHS) Thesis and Dissertation Proposal Review Committee
• 2004 Co-chair of Instructional Leadership Position and English Education/Language Arts Education Position Search Committees, Department of Secondary Education
• 2003- Departmental representative on the CEHS Technology Committee
• 2003 Member of Science Education Position Search Committee
• 2003 Member of Masters Program Committee, Department of Secondary Education

National

• 2007 Program Chair, American Reading Forum annual meeting
• 2006- Chair, Publications Committee, American Reading Forum
• 2004- Board of Directors, American Reading Forum (4 year term)
• 2001 Member American Reading Forum Nominations/Election Committee
• 1999-2002 President, American Educational Research Association, Brain, Neurosciences, and Education Special Interest Group
• 1998-2001 Program Chair, American Educational Research Association, Brain, Neurosciences, and Education Special Interest Group
• 2005 Book reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Corwin Press (Sage Publications), and National Council of Teachers of English Press
• 2007 Reviewer, American Educational Research Journal, Social and Institutional Analysis
• 2007 Reviewer, Educational Research
• 2007 Reviewer, Review of Educational Research
• 2005-2006 Member, Editorial Review Board, Reading Research and Instruction
• 2003-2007 Member, Editorial Review Board, Reading Research Quarterly
• 2003 Reviewer, English Education.
• 1999 Guest Reviewer, Research in the Teaching of English, 1999.
• 1996-8 Guest Graduate Student Reviewer, Reading Research Quarterly, 1999
• 2007, Conference Proposal Reviewer, National Reading Conference 2007, Area 7: Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School
• 2005, Conference Proposal Reviewer, National Reading Conference 2005, Area 6: Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes
• 2004, Conference Proposal Reviewer, National Reading Conference 2004, Area 7: Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School
• 2004 Conference Proposal Reviewer, American Educational Research Association 2005(Montreal), Division C, Sections 1 (Literacy and Language Arts)& 6 (Cognitive, Social & Motivational Factors), Basic Research in Reading SIG, Brain, Neurosciences, and Education SIG, Chaos & Complexity SIG
• 2000, 2002-2007 Conference Proposal Reviewer, American Reading Forum, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 (Sanibel Island, FL)
• 1997-9 Conference Proposal Reviewer, American Educational Research Association, 1998 (San Diego), 1999 (Montreal), 2000 (New Orleans) Conferences, Division C, Section 1
• 1996-7 Conference Proposal Reviewer, American Educational Research Association, 1997 (Chicago), 1998 (San Diego) Conferences, Division C, Section 6
• 1999-2000 President, Association of Reading Graduate Students, UGA Chapter
• 1998-9 Vice President, Association of Reading Graduate Students, UGA Chapter
• 1996-7 Secretary, Alpha Upsilon Alpha (Reading Education honorary sponsored by the International Reading Association)