About me
Alpana Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Secondary Education and Youth Services department at Queens College and the Ph.D. Program in Educational Psychology at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her research interests include literacy acquisition, language development, reading and writing processes, metacognitive strategy instruction, specific learning disabilities, culturally-linguistically diverse learners, and teacher preparation for secondary school education. Her research contributions include journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations in the areas of learning disabilities, literacy education, and teacher preparation. She serves as a reviewer for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, Elsevier, Learning Disabilities Worldwide, and Taylor & Francis. As a tenured faculty, she teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in Educational Psychology. She also supervises doctoral dissertations in literacy education and language development from early childhood through adulthood.
