Danielle S. McNamara

Danielle S. McNamara
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePsychologist
InstitutionsArizona State University
Main interests

Danielle S. McNamara is an educational researcher known for her theoretical and empirical work with reading comprehension and the development of game-based literacy technologies. She is professor of psychology and senior research scientist at Arizona State University. She has previously held positions at University of Memphis, Old Dominion University, and University of Colorado, Boulder.[1]

In 2015, McNamara received the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award from the University of California, Merced.[2] She was selected by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as a 2018 AERA Fellow in acknowledgement of her theoretical and research contributions to the field of literacy and learning.[3]

McNamara is the founding editor of Technology, Mind, and Behavior, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA).[4][5] She has also previously served as president of the Society for Text and Discourse, and serves on the editorial board of Discourse Processes, a multidisciplinary journal published by Taylor & Francis.[6]

  1. ^ "Danielle McNamara | Department of Psychology". psychology.asu.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  2. ^ "2015 Distinguished Cognitive Scientist". CogSci @ UC Merced. 2015-03-14. Archived from the original on 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  3. ^ "AERA Announces 2018 Fellows". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  4. ^ "Arizona State's McNamara First Editor of New Open-Access APA Journal". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  5. ^ "Editorial Board · Technology, Mind, and Behavior". Technology, Mind, and Behavior. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  6. ^ "2018 AERA Fellows". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2019-10-28.