James Paul Gee was born on April 15th, 1948 in San Jose California. He received a B.A. in philosophy from University of California and both an M.A. and Ph.D in linguistics from Stanford University. He began his career in theoretical linguistics, working in syntactic and semantic theory. He then taught at Stanford University and the school of language and communication at Hampshire College. Later on his research switched to discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and applications of linguistics to literacy and education. He went onto become the chair of the developmental studies and counseling. Around 2007 he went to teach at Arizona State University where he met his wife Mary Lou Fulton, a professor at the university. Gee has accomplished many things throughout his career, for example like holding onto Tashia Morgridge Professor of reading at the university of Wisconsin Madison from 1997-2007. He also created a new graduate program at Boston University and did many other things with his career.
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