Danielle S. McNamara

Danielle S. McNamara is an educational researcher known for her theoretical and empirical work with reading comprehension and the development of game-based literacy technologies. She is professor of psychology and senior research scientist at Arizona State University. She has previously held positions at University of Memphis, Old Dominion University, and University of Colorado, Boulder.

In 2015, McNamara received the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award from the University of California, Merced. She was selected by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as a 2018 AERA Fellow in acknowledgement of her theoretical and research contributions to the field of literacy and learning.

McNamara is the founding editor of Technology, Mind, and Behavior, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA). She has also previously served as president of the Society for Text and Discourse, and serves on the editorial board of Discourse Processes, a multidisciplinary journal published by Taylor & Francis.