皇家华人

Janet K. Outlaw

Area coordinaTOR, LITERACY STUDIES
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, M.A. IN READING EDUCATION Assistant Professor of Instruction, Literacy Studies

Email: jkoutlaw@usf.edu
Office: 皇家华人 Tampa Campus, EDU 207
Phone Number: (813) 396-9328
CV available upon request

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Dr. Janet Kim Outlaw is an Assistant Professor of Instruction, Area Coordinator for Literacy Studies, and Program Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Reading Education. She is a three-time alumna of North Carolina State University, where she received her Ph.D. in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences with a concentration in Literacy and Language Arts. She previously taught elementary and high school exceptional education in rural and urban schools. Dr. Outlaw teaches reading and writing methods courses for graduate and undergraduate pre-service teachers in the Exceptional Student Education Program and the Elementary Education Program. She mentors teacher candidates in practitioner research to develop differentiated and joyful literacy interventions with elementary and exceptional student populations.

Dr. Outlaw is committed to preparing and empowering the elementary and exceptional education teacher workforce. Her work as a teacher educator and teacher education scholar are deeply interconnected through dialogic pedagogy and practitioner research. Specifically, her research areas include (1) teacher development in facilitating dialogue for comprehension and multimodal composition instruction; (2) transformational discourse, comprehension, and writing pedagogies for diverse students with exceptionalities; and (c) participatory action research for teacher professional development and community engagement. Her scholarship has been published in journals, such as Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, and Language Arts.