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• President Elect Patriann Smith Invites Proposals for LRA 2026

  

  The Literacy Research Association (LRA) has released its Call for Proposals for the 2026 conference to be held on December 2-5, 2026 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. As President Elect and Conference Chair in collaboration with Vice President and Associate Conference Chair, Dr. Rahat Zaidi, I am delighted to share this Call for LRA’s 76th conference and…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  January 11, 2026

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• Transnationalism and Exoticism: Juxtaposing Caribbean and American Literacies

  

  The Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE), under the editorship of Cris Barabas and Zihan Lin, recently published its 20th volume, “Multiliteracies as Pedagogy: Connecting, Advocating, Resisting.” In this volume, Dr. Patriann Smith was honored to share the brief article, “Transnational Raciosemiolingual Normalization and the Schizophrenic Exoticism of Literacies” as part of the section,…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  May 20, 2024

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• Black Immigrant Literacies: A Prism of Promise

  

  On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Teachers College Press hosted the webinar “Black Immigrant Literacies: A Prism of Promise,” a conversation featuring esteemed scholars, Drs. Allison Skerrett, Aria Razfar, Shondel Nero, and Vaughn V. M. Watson, and moderated by two exceptional minds, Drs. Eurydice Bauer and Gwendolyn McMillon. A video of the webinar is now available.

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  March 1, 2024

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• And my USF Official Book Launch is now Complete!

  From the co-author of “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness,” we are so grateful for you joining us to celebrate the official launch of the book, “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom”! View snippets from the beautiful moments here!

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  December 8, 2023

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• What will it take to rethink the idea of ‘invented illiteracy’ used to characterize Black peoples worldwide?

  Recently, I attended another literacy function and was once again assailed by the insistence of well-intentioned educators on describing large numbers of students as “underperforming” due to their “illiteracy”. I was startled. It occurred to me that even with the insurmountable evidence we now have about students’ holistic literate capacities, there is a dedicated effort…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  October 8, 2023

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