David Ian Hanauer

David Ian Hanauer (b. 1960) is a professor of Applied Linguistics/English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the lead assessment coordinator for the SEA-PHAGES program at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Scientific Study of Literature journal, the official publication of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature). An applied linguist specializing in assessment and literacy practices in the sciences and poetic inquiry, he has authored or co-authored over 88 journal articles and book chapters as well as 8 books. Hanauer’s research agenda is typified by the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as arts-based approaches, and scientific measurement of concepts traditionally considered abstract, such as voice in written text, project ownership and poeticity. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, Hanauer was ranked as one of the top 2% of scientists in the fields of education and languages and linguistics as per Stanford University Global. Practicing poet, screen printer, and art journaler, he is resident artist at Radiant Hall Studios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Research and professional contributions

Science education

In several writings, Hanauer stresses the need for pedagogical innovation in science education. He argues that the scientific disciplines have historically tended to rely on a narrow range of externally derived assessment tools, such as multiple choice tests. Contending that such measures often fail to promote the “personal feelings of excitement and fulfillment so characteristic of the active scientist” among learners, Hanauer calls for active assessment in the sciences. Active assessment is guided by the principles that science teaching should be informed by procedural knowledge of scientific inquiry, occur in laboratory settings, and culminate in authentic scientific discovery.

Hanauer has published several studies demonstrating evidence of a positive correlation between enhanced student learning outcomes and the development of a sense of project ownership in science classrooms. Data from these studies was obtained via inter-institutional collaborations, and his own experiences with implementing an active assessment program in a bacteriophage laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. Hanauer has also coordinated a research initiative aimed at enhancing science faculty knowledge of assessment that was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Additionally, Hanauer has researched literacy practices among apprentice and established scientists. His work in this vein includes a quantitative investigation of the perceived burden that Mexican scientists associated with the obligation to publish in English, their second language. He has also published a linguistic landscape study of how language is publicly displayed in laboratory contexts to express personal and professional identities, scientific ability, and community membership.

Poetic inquiry

This area of Hanauer’s research agenda builds upon a small but burgeoning body of qualitative research in the humanities that advocates for poetry writing as a means of eliciting and representing highly personalized understandings of human experience. In a 2010 book, Hanauer challenged conventional thought by proposing that poetry inquiry can be practiced among second language learners even if they possess relatively low proficiency levels and that poetry writing could be used as a research method. On the basis of corpus linguistics and qualitative analysis of poems written by university-level English as a Foreign Language students, Hanauer argues that poetic data “produced through a reflective process and cycles of revision” reveals meaningful insights about “the influence of context on individual experience” and the subjective emotional understandings that individuals attach to lived moments. This is the basis for the pedagogical approach to teaching writing in EFL classrooms that he has developed and termed meaningful literacy. His measurement work in poetry has addressed the poetic genre decisions, voice and poetic interpretation.

Hanauer developed the research method of autoethnographic poetic inquiry in order to explore his own experiences living and growing up as a second-generation Kindertransport survivor. He has used poetic ethnography to explicate the human side of war experiences and promote a pacifist agenda. In 2024, Hanauer produced a Youtube video course, ''Life Writing and Poetic Autoethnography,'' consisting of 18 video lectures focused on the methodology and process of poetic autoethnography.

Editorial work

Hanauer served as editor-in-chief of the journal ''Scientific Study of Literature'' for 10 years, the official journal of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, ending his tenure in 2024.

Teaching

Hanauer has taught research methodology, literacy, and second language learning to undergraduate and graduate students at the university level for over 30 years. His teaching of quantitative research at the doctoral level at Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been influential to a number of students as well as to the fields of applied linguistics, creative writing studies, writing studies, and the scientific study of literature. In 2023, Hanauer produced a video series designed for beginners on statistical analysis and quantitative research using the data analysis program jamovi.

Awards and honors

In 2015, Hanauer was the recipient of the John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research for his article "Measuring voice in poetry written by second language learners" which was first published in 2014 in the journal ''Written Communication''.

Selected bibliography

Books

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Articles and book chapters

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* Hanauer, D. I. (2014). Being in the Second Iraq War: A poetic ethnography. ''Qualitative Inquiry''.
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* Hanauer, D. (2009). Science and the linguistic landscape: A genre analysis of representational wall space within a microbiology laboratory. In: E. Shohamy and D. Gorter (Eds.), ''Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery''. New York: Routledge, pp. 287–301.
* Hanauer, D. (2008). Non-place identity: Britain’s response to migration in the age of supermodernity. In: G. Delanty, P. Jones and R. Wodak (Eds.), ''Migrant Voices: Discourses of Belonging and Exclusion''. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 198–220.
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References

External links

David Hanauer
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Google Scholar profile


Interdisciplinarity and the Psyschology of the Linguistic Landscape
eynote Lecture ''English Graduate Organization Conference''. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Indiana, PA. March, 2025.

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Living people
Indiana University of Pennsylvania faculty
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