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Hagood

University of Georgia education graduate Margaret C. Hagood, now a faculty member at the College of Charleston, was named co-editor for The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy beginning this fall through 2016.

Published by the International Reading Association, JAAL has a readership of more than 14,000 and is the only literacy journal published exclusively for literacy advocates of older learners.

Hagood and her College of Charleston colleague Emily Skinner have served on the Editorial Review Board of the JAAL and are active members of the IRA. They will adjudicate manuscripts beginning this fall and their first issue as co-editors will be in August 2012.

Hagood (PhD ’02), an associate professor of literacy in the department of teacher education, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early childhood elementary, middle grade literacies focusing on digital literacies, pop culture, identities of children and adolescents. She also conducts professional development and research with middle school teachers and students, studying how they understand new literacies and use out-of-school literacies to improve performance in teaching and learning literacies in schools.

She co-authored a book in 2010 titled, Bring It to Class: Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning which addresses the importance of utilizing pop culture as a form of updating literacy instruction for the 21st century.

In 2006, she won the Junior Teacher Scholar Award from the College of Charleston’s School of Education.