Author: Patriann Smith
Patriann Smith serves as Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of South Florida. Her research considers how language and literacy teaching, research, assessment, and policy are influenced by the intersection of race, language, and immigration. She is the author of numerous publications including the Teachers College Press book, Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom (2023), winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Honorable Mention. She is co-editor of Educating African Immigrant Youth: Schooling and Civic Engagement in K–12 Schools (2024), also published by Teachers College Press, and author of the book “Literacies of Migration: Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence” (2024) published by Cambridge University Press. She is a Co-Founder of the USAID-funded RISE Caribbean Educational Research Center (CERC) and the recently elected President of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) (2024-2028). For more about Patriann Smith, visit patriannsmith.com
