Faculty

LLE Faculty Awards and Leadership Positions

	Allen, JoBeth Professor Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction - University of Kansas Interests: Literacy teaching and learning in elementary classrooms, intersections of critical theory and progressive education, social justice and educational equity, and collaborative action research. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: jobethal@uga.edu
	Alvermann, Donna E. Distinguished Research Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1980) Interests: adolescent literacy, critical and poststructural methodologies, sociocultural aspects of literacy. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: dalverma@uga.edu
	Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa Associate Professor Ph.D., Educational Linguistics - University of Pennsylvania Interests: Multilingual & multiliteracy education, critical pedagogy, & arts based approaches to qualitative inquiry. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: cahnmann@uga.edu
	Callahan, Rebecca Assistant Professor Ph.D., Education (Second language acquisition emphasis) - University of California, Davis Interests: The education of immigrant high school students and the transition to higher education; Sociology of education; Second language acquisition; Immigration theory; linguistic minority students in schools. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: rmcallah@uga.edu
	Cammarata, Laurent Assistant Professor Interests: content-based instruction and other innovative approaches to foreign language curriculum design, teacher education and professional development, technology-enhanced language learning, critical pedagogy, phenomenology, and issues related to validation of knowledge claims in human science. Download Vita in PDF Format E-mail: lc@uga.edu
	Commeyras, Michelle Professor (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991) Interests: challenging readers to think analytically, understanding the social and political dimensions of literacy and education, developing inquiry-based teacher education, surveying literacy from a global perspective. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: pulane@uga.edu
	DeGroff, Linda Associate Professor Ph.D., Reading and Language Arts Education - Syracuse University Interests: Children's literature. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: ldegroff@uga.edu
	Driagina-Hasko, Viktoria Assistant Professor Ph.D., Applied Linguistics - Pennsylvania State University Interests: second/ foreign language acquisition and instructed learning, computer-assisted language learning and teaching, language and cognition, learner corpus analysis. http://driagina.myweb.uga.edu/index.htm Download Vita in PDF Format E-mail: driagina@uga.edu
	Faust, Mark A. Associate Professor and Department Head Ph.D., English Education - New York University Interests: Situated meaning making as a way of responding to literature, theoretical practice in language education on secondary school level. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: mfaust@uga.edu
	Fecho, Bob Associate Professor and Reading Program Coordinator (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995) Interests: critical literacy, adolescent literacy, teacher research, social aspects of literacy. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: bfecho@uga.edu
	Graff, Jennifer Assistant Professor, Language and Literacy Education Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction—University of Florida Interests: Reading engagement and motivation, sociocultural contexts of reading, children’s literature, reader response, and critical literacy E-mail: jgraff@uga.edu
	Graham, Peg Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: grahamp@uga.edu
	Harklau, Linda A. Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. August, 1992 Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: lharklau@uga.edu
	Labbo, Linda D. Professor Ph.D., University of Texas, 1993. Interests: early literacy, computers, diversity, content area literacy for elementary children. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: llabbo@uga.edu
	Marshall, James Professor Ph.D. Language, Literacy, and Culture. Stanford University, 1985. Interests: The teaching of literature, the teaching of writing, the assessment of literacy, the assessment of teaching, and the politics of teacher education. Download Vita in PDF Format E-mail: jdmarsh@uga.edu
	Ratliff, Joanne Lecturer Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: jratliff@uga.edu
	Sheppard, Pamela K. Lecturer Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation title: Las Ultimas Munecas: The Construction of Subjectivity by Adolescent Girls of Mexican Origin Living in the American South, 2001 University of Georgia Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: pshepp@uga.edu
	St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams Professor and Graduate Coordinator Ph.D., English Education - The Ohio State University Interests: Poststructural, critical, and feminist theories relating to language and the construction of subjectivity; qualitative research methodology. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: stpierre@uga.edu
	Smagorinsky, Peter Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago Interests: Sociocultural perspectives on teaching, learning , and professional development Download Vita in PDF Format Link to Online Vita E-Mail: smago@uga.edu
	Taxel, Joel A. Aderhold Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction - University of Wisconsin, Madison Interests: Multicultural children's literature, social and political values in children's fiction, the politics and economics of children's literature. Download Vita in PDF Format E-Mail: jtaxel@uga.edu