Jennifer Graff
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Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Department of Language and Literacy Education
Biography
Affiliate Faculty: Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Reading Education
- children's and young adult literature
- qualitative research
Interests
- Sociocultural contexts of reading engagement and practices among culturally and linguistically diverse youth
- critical analysis of children's literature
- international and multicultural literature
- reader response
- qualitative research paradigms
Academic Affiliations
Education
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PhD in Curriculum and Instruction; Concentration in Children's Literature and Reading
University of Florida, Gainesville
Contact
Aderhold Hall, 309L
Awards and Accolades
Carl Glickman Faculty Fellow Award
UGA College of Education, 2017
D. Keith Osborn Excellence in Teaching Award
UGA College of Education, 2014
Finalist, Graduate School Mentoring Award, Applied and Professional Sciences
UGA Graduate School, 2014
Co-recipient Albert J. Harris Award
International Reading Association, 2011
International Research Fellow
International Jugendbibliothek München, Germany, 2011
Early Career Faculty Research Grant
Office of the Vice President for Research, 2010
Outstanding Dissertation Award
International Reading Association, 2009