Marjorie Madden

Marjorie Madden brings over thirty-five years to the teaching of reading, writing, and literacy. Former chair of the Reading Department at Rowan, Dr. Madden now teaches clinical courses in the undergraduate reading program and graduate courses in the Reading Specialist and Reading Practitioner tracks in the MA in Reading program. Dr. Madden is also a former member of the Ph.D. faculty in the College of Education. In addition to teaching, Dr. Madden co-developed The Literacy Consortium, now in its 15th year. TLC provides yearly symposiums for school districts around various literacy topics. Madden has also worked in schools in Guatemala, training teachers in effective literacy instruction. She has taken students and teachers for the past ten years to present at the International Literacy Conference in Guatemala City.   Dr. Madden has also worked with Dr. Susan Browne to develop and implement Family Literacy programs in Camden City for Head Start parents.

As a researcher, Dr. Madden has published four books for Scholastic. She has published chapters and articles in various educational journals and presented at numerous national and international conferences, including two invitations to the Round Table at Oxford University in Oxford, England, Dublin, Ireland, and Chania, Greece.  Dr. Madden’s research interests include critical literacy, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy, emergent and family literacy, and reading intervention for struggling readers and writers.