Ruth Spack

Instructor in the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program

Departments/Programs

Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program

Degrees

Lesley College, Ph.D.
Simmons College, M.A.
University of Rochester, B.A.

Expertise

Native American Studies, Composition Studies, English as a Second Language

Awards and Honors

Sally K. Lenhardt Professional Leadership Award, In Recognition of Outstanding Professional Achievements and Leadership as a Role Model for Others, Lesley University (2009)

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900), Association of College and University Research Libraries (2003)

Freedom to Learn Award, In Honor of Research and Scholarship, Massachusetts Association of Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages (2003)

Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Outstanding Research Publication in the Field of Teaching English Language and Literature (America's Second Tongue), Modern Language Association (2003)

Scholarship

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations, by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose. Journal of American History vol. 104 (2017): 776-777.

Spack, Ruth. "Zitkala-Sa." The Literary Encyclopedia. 2011.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law, by Matthew L. Fletcher. Studies in American Indian Literatures vol. 22 (2010): 72-74.

Spack, Ruth. "English, Pedagogy, and Ideology: A Case Study of the Hampton Institute, 1878-1900." Gathering Native Scholars: UCLA's Forty Years of American Indian Culture and Research. Ed. Kenneth Lincoln. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Press, 2009. 493-520.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature, by Amelia V. Katanski. Studies in American Indian Literatures vol. 21 (2009): 91-94.

Spack, Ruth and Vivian Zamel, ed. Language Lessons: Stories for Teaching and Learning English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Literature, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima and Teresa L. McCarty. Great Plains Quarterly vol. 28 (2008): 241-242.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation, by Jacqueline Fear-Segal. American Historical Review vol. 113 (2008): 1170-1171.

Spack, Ruth. "Zitkala-Sa, The Song of Hiawatha, and the Carlisle Indian School Band: A Captivity Tale." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 25. 2 (2008): 211-224.

Spack, Ruth. "Teaching the Lived Experience of Language Learning." Learning the Language of Global Citizenship: Service-Learning in Applied Linguistics. Ed. Adrian Wurr and Josef Hellebrant. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 119-140.

Spack, Ruth. Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Spack, Ruth. "American Indian Education." History Compass 4. 3 (2006): 615-620.

Spack, Ruth. "English Lessons." TESOL Quarterly 40. 3 (2006): 595-604.

Spack, Ruth. "Translation Moves: Zitkala-Sa's Bilingual Indian Legends." Studies in American Indian Literatures 18. 4 (2006): 43-62.

Zamel, Vivian and Ruth Spack. "Teaching Multilingual Learners Across the Curriculum: Beyond the ESOL Classroom and Back Again." Journal of Basic Writing 25. 2 (2006): 126-152.

Spack, Ruth. Teaching Writing for ESL Students. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2005.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning, by Leanne Hinton with Matt Vera and Nancy Steele. Studies in American Indian Literatures vol. 16 (2004): 90-93.

Zamel, Vivian and Ruth Spack, ed. Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism, by Laura Wexler. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers vol. 20 (2003): 194-195.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of The Jesus Road: Christianity and Indian Hymns, by Luke, Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay. MONTANA: The Magazine of Western History vol. 53 (2003): 81-82.

Spack, Ruth. America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Spack, Ruth. "Dis/engagement: Zitkala-Sa's Letters to Carlos Montezuma, 1901-1902." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 26. 1 (2001): 172-204.

Spack, Ruth. "Initiating ESL Students into the Academic Discourse Community: How Far Should We Go?." Landmark Essays on ESL Writing. Ed. Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda. New York: Routledge, 2001. 91-108.

Spack, Ruth. Learning Through Writing: Examining the Students' Perspective. Proc. of Sixth Annual General Education Symposium Conference Proceedings: Teaching Through Writing. Boston, MA: Berklee College of Music, 2001.

Spack, Ruth. "English, Pedagogy, and Ideology: A Case Study of the Hampton Institute, 1878-1900." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24. 1 (2000): 1-24.

Spack, Ruth. "Review." Rev. of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, by Brenda J. Child. American Indian Culture and Research Journal vol. 24 (2000): 160-163.

Zamel, Vivian and Ruth Spack, ed. Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Zamel, Vivian and Ruth Spack, ed. Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures. New York: Routlege, 1998.

Spack, Ruth. "Re-visioning Sioux Women: Zitkala-Sa's Revolutionary American Indian Stories." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 14. 1 (1997): 25-42.

Spack, Ruth. "The (In)visibility of the Person(al) in Academe." College English 59. 1 (1997): 9-31.

Spack, Ruth. "The Acquisition of Academic Literacy in a Second Language: A Longitudinal Case Study." Written Communication: A Quarterly Journal of Research, Theory, and Application 14. 1 (1997): 3-62.

Spack, Ruth. "The Rhetorical Construction of Multilingual Students." TESOL Quarterly 31. 4 (1997): 765-774.

Spack, Ruth. "Invention Strategies and the ESL College Composition Student." Writing in a Second Language: Insights from First and Second Language Teaching and Research. Ed. Bruce Leeds. New York: Longman, 1996. 98-111.

Spack, Ruth. "Teaching Across Cultures." Rev. of Listening to the World; Cultural Issues in Academic Writing; Decoding ESL: International Students in American Colleges, by Helen Fox; Amy Tucker. College English vol. 58 (1996): 592-597.

Spack, Ruth. The International Story: An Anthology with Guidelines for Reading and Writing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Spack, Ruth. "Student Meets Text, Text Meets Student: Finding a Way into Academic Prose." Reading in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Joan G. Carson and Ilona Leki. Boston: Heinle, 1993. 183-196.

Spack, Ruth. Keynote: Seeing the World Through Students' Eyes: 'Like a Mask Dancing'. Proc. of Academic Writing and the Non-Native Speaker of English: Presentations from the Conference of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, 1993.

Spack, Ruth. "Initiating ESL Students into the Academic Discourse Community: How Far Should We Go?." TESOL Quarterly 22. 1 (1988): 29-51.

Spack, Ruth. "Literature, Reading, Writing, and ESL: Bridging the Gaps." TESOL Quarterly 19. 4 (1985): 703-725.

Spack, Ruth. "Invention Strategies and the ESL College Composition Student." TESOL Quarterly 18. 4 (1984): 649-670.

Spack, Ruth and Catherine Sadow. "Student-Teacher Working Journals in ESL Composition." TESOL Quarterly 17. 4 (1983): 575-593.