Anthony Petrosky

Anthony Petrosky directs the Institute for Learning (IFL) at the Learning Research & Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a research scientist at LRDC and a professor in the School of Education. He has worked with profesional learning and curriculum development in English and literacy for IFL with teachers and district leaders in the public schools across the country. He began his career as an 9th grade English teacher.

Along with David Bartholomae, Petrosky is the co-author and co-editor of five books: Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts: Theory and Method for a Reading and Writing Course, The Teaching of Writing, Ways of Reading, Ways of Reading Words and Images, and History and Ethnography: Reading and Writing About Others. With Stephanie McConachie, he co-authored and co-edited Content Matters: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Improving Student Learning.

Petrosky’s first collection of poetry, Jurgis Petraskas received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Notable Book Award from the American Library Association. He has published two other collections of poetry, Red and Yellow Boat and Crazy Love.