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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.
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E-Mail: jobethal@uga.edu
faculty picture Alvermann, Donna E.
Distinguished Research Professor
(Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1980)
Interests: adolescent literacy, critical and poststructural methodologies, sociocultural aspects of literacy.
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E-Mail: dalverma@uga.edu 
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Educational Linguistics - University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Multilingual & multiliteracy education, critical pedagogy, & arts based approaches to qualitative inquiry.
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E-Mail: cahnmann@uga.edu
JoBeth Allen 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.
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E-Mail: rmcallah@uga.edu
faculty pic 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.
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E-mail: lc@uga.edu
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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.
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E-Mail: pulane@uga.edu
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Reading and Language Arts Education - Syracuse University
Interests: Children's literature.
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E-Mail: ldegroff@uga.edu
faculty pic 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.

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E-mail: driagina@uga.edu

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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.
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E-Mail: mfaust@uga.edu
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Associate Professor and Reading Program Coordinator

(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995)
Interests: critical literacy, adolescent literacy, teacher research, social aspects of literacy.
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E-Mail: bfecho@uga.edu
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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
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Associate  Professor, Language and Literacy Education

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E-Mail: grahamp@uga.edu
faculty pic Harklau, Linda A.
Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. August, 1992
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E-Mail: lharklau@uga.edu
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Harman, Ruth
Assistant Professor
Ed.D., Language, Literacy and Culture - University of Massachusetts Amherst
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E-Mail: rharman@educ.umass.edu

faculty pic Labbo, Linda D.
Professor

Ph.D., University of Texas, 1993.
Interests: early literacy, computers, diversity, content area literacy for elementary children.
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E-Mail: llabbo@uga.edu 
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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.
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E-mail: jdmarsh@uga.edu
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Ratliff, Joanne
Lecturer

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E-Mail: jratliff@uga.edu

faculty pic 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
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E-Mail: pshepp@uga.edu
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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.
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E-Mail: stpierre@uga.edu
faculty pic Smagorinsky, Peter
Professor

Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Sociocultural perspectives on teaching, learning , and professional development
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Link to Online Vita
E-Mail: smago@uga.edu
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Taxel, Joel A.
Professor
Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interests: Multicultural children's literature; the politics and economics of children's literature.
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E-Mail:jtaxel@uga.edu

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