Faculty Profiles

Janet K. Outlaw

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Literacy Studies

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Email: jkoutlaw@usf.edu
Phone Number: (813) 396-9328
CV available upon request


Dr. Janet K. Outlaw is a three-time graduate of NC State University, where she received her Ph.D. in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences with a concentration in Literacy and English Language Arts. She is a former early literacy induction and professional development leader, elementary teacher, and high school teacher. Dr. Outlaw teaches literacy methods courses and mentors pre-service teacher literacy action research. Her areas of expertise include elementary literacy teacher education, novice teacher induction, dialogic teaching, and early literacy and language arts.
 
Dr. Outlaw鈥檚 scholarship focuses on dialogic early literacy teacher education. Specifically, her research (a) theorizes digital dialogic comprehension and composition pedagogies with primary teachers (b) analyzes dialogic literary communities in children鈥檚 literature, and (c) cultivates community-engaged literacy praxis through dialogic action research. Dr. Outlaw has presented her research at local and national literacy conferences. Her work has been published in literacy journals, such as Language Arts, Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, and Literacy Research and Instruction.