Dr. Patriann Smith

Professor of Literacy · University of South Florida, Tampa · company speakers →

Patriann Smith is a Saint Lucian American expert on language and literacy who serves as professor of literacy at the University of South Florida, Tampa. As a globally recognized educational, inspirational, and motivational keynote speaker (e.g., United Nations, OECS), her research emerges at the intersection of race, language, and immigration, with an emphasis on transculturally, transracially, and translinguistically responsive literacy and assessment practices. She has authored, coauthored, and coedited 5 books, written over 150 publications, and is the recipient of numerous awards (e.g., AERA, ILA, LRA) including the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America Mina P. Shaughnessy Honorable Mention for her 2023 Teachers College Press book “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom.” Her most recent authored book is “Literacies of Migration: Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence” (2024) published by Cambridge University Press.

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