Literacy Faculty

Laurie MacGillivray Literacy Coordinator Email | 901.678.1463 Virtual Office Hours: Thursday, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Appointments can be made by email.
Alycia Taylor Assistant Professor, Literacy Email Virtual Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and by appointment  Appointments can be made by email.
Matthew Panozzo Assistant Professor, Literacy Email

Our faculty are influential in setting the national agenda of improving the success of children living in poverty through research, school and district-wide interventions, serving on NGO’s boards, consulting, and authoring textbooks for pre-service and in-service teachers. The faculty are engaged in improving instruction in urban schools through projects like the award-winning Memphis Literacy Academy and the federally-funded Memphis Striving Readers Project, as well as working with other school districts across the nation. Seminal books are authored by our faculty, such as Technology to Teach Literacy: A Resource for K-8 Teachers, Literacy in Times of Crisis, Handbook of Research on Digital Tools for Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings and Content Literacy Strategies for Improving Student Achievement. The Literacy faculty is widely published in a variety of scholarly journals such as: Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Journal of Latinos in Education, Journal of Literacy Research and The Reading Teacher.