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Patriann Smith, Ph.D.

Patriann Smith, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Faculty Success and Excellence and Professor of Literacy Studies in the College of Education at USF is a leading scholar in transraciolinguistic justice who investigates how race, language and immigration shape literacy practices among Caribbean, American, and other immigrant and transnational students across global contexts.

A Saint Lucian American scholar, Smith is internationally recognized for her transdisciplinary research examining how literacy teaching, research, assessment and policy are shaped by the intersections of race, language and immigration.  Globally recognized as an educational, inspirational, and motivational keynote speaker (e.g., United Nations, The White House) and professional (e.g., UNESCO, Global Voices), Smith translates her research to inform transculturally, transracially, and translinguistically responsive literacy and assessment practices for reachers, educators, and policy-makers. Her ultimate goal -- engineering scholarship inspired by quantum understandings of the world that create more just, responsive and humane literacy practices across local, national and international contexts.

Smith’s scholarship focuses specifically on how differences in languages, Englishes and language ideologies influence Caribbean students’ immigrant literacy practices as they move between their home countries and the United States. Drawing on Black Englishes and Black literacies of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, other (Black) immigrant populations, and of American students, she advances solutions that promote transraciolinguistic justice. Through her transnational research, Smith has developed a transraciolinguistic approach that explains how Englishes and the ideologies shaping their use both constrain and create possibilities for cross-cultural, cross-racial and cross-linguistic literacy instruction. She has also introduced the framework of Black immigrant literacies, the concept of translanguaging with Englishes while Black, and the notion of raciosemiotic architecture to clarify how Black youth literacy practices are transracialized across borders. 

Smith is the author of numerous scholarly works including over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in leading outlets such as the American Educational Research Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Teachers College Record, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean, and International Multilingual Research Journal. Smith’s most recent book is “Literacies of Migration: Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence“ (Cambridge University Press: 2024, Forewords by Allison Skerrett & Awad Ibrahim; Afterword by Ramón Martínez). Smith is also the author of the Teachers College Press book “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” (Teachers College Press: 2023, Foreword by Shondel Nero), winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Mina P. Shaughnessy Honorable Mention, and of the co-authored book, “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness” (Teachers College Press: 2022). Smith’s research and scholarly contributions have been featured in professional podcasts and public scholarship venues (LSE, Global Voices, Classroom Caffeine, FABBS). 

An active leader in the field, Smith has served as the co-founder and co-principal investigator of the $3.6 million USAID-funded Caribbean Educational Research Initiative, RISE Caribbean (2021-2024), in numerous national leadership roles across major professional organizations. She is an elected president of the Literacy Research Association (2024–2028) and previously served on its board of directors (2020-2023) and as its parliamentarian (2013-2016).  With over 160 presentations across the United States and beyond, Smith is a sought-after keynote speaker for global organizations, including the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the World Literacy Foundation (WLF). Her scholarship has received numerous honors from organizations such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA), International Literacy Association (ILA) and the Literacy Research Association (LRA). Her areas of expertise include literacy and literacies, race, language, immigration, translanguaging, teacher education, Englishes, Black language and Black literacies, with a regional focus on the Caribbean.

Research

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Leadership Positions

Honors and Awards

  • Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Honorable Mention, “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” (Teachers College Press: 2023; Foreword: Shondel Nero), Modern Language Association (MLA) (2025)
  • Women in Leadership and Philanthropy (WLP) Award, USF (2024)
  • White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans Certificate, USDOE, White House (2024)
  • White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans Panel, Power Up Chicago, White House (2024)
  • Award for Dedicated Service, Board Member, Literacy Research association (LRA), (2020-2023)
  • World Literacy Summit Award Finalist, Oxford University, Oxford UK, World Literacy Foundation (WLF) (2023)
  • Global Excellence Research Award, USF World, USF (2022)
  • Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, Research and Innovation, USF (2021)
  • Integrated Scholar Award, Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University (2019)
  • Congratulatory Note, Student Government Association, Senate Resolution 54.116, Texas Tech University (2019)
  • Raiders Who Rock Unsung Hero, Texas Tech University (2019)
  • President’s Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award, Texas Tech University (2018)
  • President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Tech University (2018)
  • Outstanding Paper Award, Organization of Teacher Educators in Literacy, International Literacy Association (2018)
  • Scholars of color Transitioning into Academic Research (STAR) Institutions Award, Literacy Research Association (LRA) (2017-2018)
  • Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty (University Research | Teaching) Award, Texas Tech University (2017)
  • The President’s Gender Equity Council, Women’s Studies, and University Writing Center Women’s Faculty Writing Program (WFWP) Inaugural Fellow, Texas Tech University (TTU) (2016)
  • Language and Social Processes (LSP) Special Interest Group (SIG) Emerging Scholar Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2015)
  • International Reading Association (IRA) Reading Hall of Fame (RHOF) Emerging Fellow, Reading Hall of Fame (2013-2017)
  • Certificate of Recognition, Mentor and Mentor Cluster Leader, Mentor Tech, Texas Tech University (2016-2017)
  • Certificate of (District) Recognition, Chief Engineer of Opportunity, Literacy Champion Coordinator, AVID, Lubbock Independent School District (LISD) (2017)
  • Certificate of (District) Recognition, Literacy Champion for Dunbar College Preparatory Academy (DCPA), AVID District Family Night, LISD (2016) Institute for Inclusive Excellence, Texas Tech University (TTU) (2015-2016)
  • List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for Fall (2013), Spring (2014), Summer (2014), Fall (2014), Spring (2015) Award for Dedicated Service, Parliamentarian, Literacy Research Association (2013-2016) 

Courses Taught

  • RED 6846: Practicum in Reading (Undergraduate/MAT/Masters/Online) (2024)
  • LAE 4314: Children’s & Young Adult Literature (Undergraduate/Online) (2024)
  • RED 6749: History and Foundations of Reading (Masters/Online) [8-week] (2019|2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2024)
  • LAE 4314: Children’s & Young Adult Literature (Undergraduate/Online) (2023)
  • RED 4943: Practicum in Reading (Undergraduate/MAT/Face-to-Face/Online) (2023)
  • RED 6649: Critical Literacies for Racial Justice (Doctoral/Masters/Online) [8-week] (2023-projected)
  • LAE 6317: Teaching Composition in Elementary Classrooms (Masters/Online) [8-week] (2022)
  • RED 6846: Practicum in Reading (Masters/Online) (2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2024)
  • LAE 4414: Diverse Children’s Literature (Undergraduate/Online) (2021)
  • LAE 7718: Linguistics in Literacy (Doctoral/Online/Hybrid) (2020 | 2023)
  • RED 6247: Curriculum and Supervision Problems in Reading (Masters/Online) (2020 | 2021)
  • RED 6544: Cognition, Comprehension, and Content Area (Masters/Online) (2020)
  • LDLS 6350: Research Methods in Language, Diversity, and Literacy (Doctoral/Online) (2019)
  • EDBL 5337: Teaching Strategies for ESL and Content-Area Teachers of Limited-English Proficient Students (2019)
  • EDLL 5356: Trends and Issues in Adolescent Literature (2018)
  • LDLS 6343: Global Literacy (Doctoral/Online) (2018)
  • EDCI 6333: Diversity Ideologies (Doctoral/Online) (2017 | 2018 | 2019)
  • EDLL 5346: Increasing Reading Proficiency for all Readers (Doctoral/Masters/Online) (2015|2017|2019)
  • EDLL 5341: Developing Academic Literacy in the Disciplines for Adolescents (Masters/Online) (2017|2019)
  • EDLL 5342: Classroom-Based Literacy Assessment for Differentiated Instruction (Doctoral/Masters/Online) (2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019)
  • EDLL 6341 | EDCI 6345: Trends and Issues in New Literacies: New Literacies for the 21st Century (Doctoral/Masters/Online) (2016|2017|2018)
  • EDLL 5351: Children’s Literature in the School Curriculum (Doctoral/Masters/Online) (2016)
  • CI 475: Teaching Elementary Reading and Language Arts I (Undergraduate/Blended) (2015)
  • CI 502: Introduction to Reading (Graduate/Online) (2014)
  • CI 576: Assessment-Based Reading Instruction (Graduate and Online) (2014 | 2015
  • CI 577: Clinical Practicum in Reading (Graduate/Blended) (2014)
  • CI 446: Culture in the Classroom (Graduate and Undergraduate/Online) (2014)
  • CI 575: Assessment in Reading (Graduate/Online and Blended) (2013 | 2014)
  • RED 6514: Reading Process in the Elementary Grades (Graduate/Blended) (2013)
  • LAE 6314: Writing and Writers: Trends and Issues (Graduate/Online) (2013)
  • RED 6545: Issues in Vocabulary and Word Study (Graduate/Online) (2012)
  • LAE 4314: Teaching Writing in Elementary Schools (Undergraduate/Blended) (2012)
  • LAE 4414: Literature in Childhood Education (Undergraduate/Blended) (2012)
  • RED 4310: Reading and Learning to Read (Undergraduate/Blended) (2011)
  • RED 4511: Linking Literacy Assessment to Instruction (Undergraduate/Blended) (2011)

Grants

  • Warrican, S.J. (UWI Principal Investigator), Smith, P. (USF Principal Investigator), Leacock, C.J. (co-Investigator). (2021-2024). RISE Caribbean: Caribbean Educational Research Initiative: Higher education partnership between the University of the West Indies and the University of South Florida. United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ($3,687,918.96) (funded). [Interdisciplinary | International | Community Engaged] [Role on Proposal: USF Project Coordinator, Literacy Researcher, Qualitative Researcher] More information can be found at the RISE Caribbean 2023 Conference Website: https://risecaribbean.org 

 

Grant Management Progress and Milestones (2021-2024): 

    • The Caribbean Educational Research Center (CERC) was officially launched in September 2021.
    • The RISE Caribbean Cross-Cultural Mentorship Network (CCMN) Moodle site was launched to house all course and research material and resources engaged with by various faculty and stakeholders as part of the project.
    • The RISE Caribbean Cross-Cultural Mentorship Network (CCMN) Guide was developed to be used by all RISE USF faculty, fellows and assistants.
    • Five (5) USF Research Mentors (Professors Drs. Robert Dedrick, James King, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Eunsook Kim) were assigned to 2 Research Fellows and 3 Research Assistants in Barbados as of 2021.
    • Two (2) USF Instructional Faculty (Professors Drs. Robert Dedrick & Jolyn Blank) were assigned to and taught summer qualitative and quantitative courses in Summer Year 1, 2021.
    • Beyond this, USF faculty and a doctoral student (Drs. Constance Hines, Connie Walker, Jim Hatten, Jennifer Wolgemuth, Maria Valcarlos, Eunsook Kim) worked to prepare four asynchronous courses on program evaluation, quantitative research, and qualitative research in Summer Year 1, 2021. These four training courses, all of which have been completed, completed to provide forthcoming training to emerging researchers and practitioners at the CERC in Barbados.
    • Cross-Cultural Research Mentorship Network (CCMN) monthly meetings began in earnest in 2021 and continued throughout each academic year. These meetings included attendance by all USF faculty, UWI Research Fellows and UWI Research Assistants and continued for the duration of the grant.
    • Two (2) USF Instructional Faculty (Professors Drs. Robert Dedrick and Jennifer Wolgemuth) were assigned to and taught summer qualitative and quantitative courses in Summer Year 2, 2022.
    • The USF faculty traveled with me and with Dr. Constance Hines to Barbados for the RISE Summer Institute coordinated there in 2022. RISE Caribbean USF faculty and I travelled to deliver summer coursework and research mentorship in Summer Year 2, 2022. The Cross-Cultural Mentorship Network Summer Institute involved research mentorship and instruction of Research Fellows, Research Assistants, and practitioners from Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Three faculty served as USF Research Mentors and 2 faculty served as Instructors for two quantitative and qualitative classes.
    • Ten (10) Research Assistants enlisted in 2022 in addition to the 3 original scholars in 2021 and one (1) Research Fellow was added to the team.
    • Research Fellows and Assistants submitted manuscripts to journals, presented at conferences, submitted CVs for feedback, supplied research narratives for review, and presented numerous other artifacts for feedback post-summer institute held in 2022.
    • The CERC institutional repository for research and the RISE Caribbean website were both developed and launched in 2023.
    • A USF Project Facilitator and Technology Specialist as well as a Research Assistant were enlisted to support preparation for the 2023 RISE Caribbean Conference and the 2023 RISE Summer Institute.
    • RISE UWI traveled to AERA where they presented with USF faculty.
    • RISE UWI traveled to USF where they presented with USF faculty.
    • RISE UWI colleagues prepared podcasts in advance of the conference in collaboration with the podcast, Classroom Caffeine. Keynote for the conference was Dr. Allison Skerrett.
    • RISE UWI Research Fellows and Research Assistants traveled to AERA 2023 and successfully presented the RISE Caribbean symposium with USF Research Mentors and Instructors.
    • RISE Caribbean Research Fellows and Research Assistants were provided with practice sessions for the AERA conference and for the RISE Caribbean conference.
      RISE Caribbean Research Fellows and Research Assistants submitted multiple manuscripts for review to refereed journals.  
    • RISE Caribbean USF PI invited to submit a book to Palgrave Macmillan based on the 2023 AERA RISE Caribbean symposium.  
    • Expert-led sessions were provided for RISE Fellows and Research Assistants to learn and to practice the art of translating research to practice and disseminating research to diverse publics via social media (e.g., blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
    • The RISE Caribbean conference coordinated by Dr. Patriann Smith hosted by USF in spring of Year 3, 2023.
    • RISE UWI Research Fellows and Research Assistants traveled to RISE Caribbean 2023 conference at USF and successfully presented individual and group presentations with USF Research Mentors and Instructors.
    • The RISE Caribbean Cross-Cultural Research Mentorship Network (CCRMN) Summer Institute was held at The UWI Cave Hill in Barbados in Year 3, 2023. 
      RISE Caribbean Research Fellows and Research Assistants received additional supports towards supporting publication for the 2023-2024 academic year.
      They again presented research from the initiative at the AERA 2024 conference.
       
  • Smith, G. (Principal Investigator), Smith, P. (co-Investigator), Sherry, M. (co- Investigator), & Drobitz, J. (co-Investigator). (2020). Collaborative responsive writing in web-based eBooks to improve literacy. Prepared for the COEDU Creative Research Grant. ($10,000.00) (funded) [Interdisciplinary | [Role on Proposal: Literacy Researcher]
  • Smith, G. (Principal Investigator), Smith, P. (co-Investigator), Sherry, M. (co-Principal Investigator), & Drobitz, J. (co-Principal Investigator). (2020). Interactive eBooks for online learning, with games and social interaction. Prepared for the COEDU Mini Grant. ($5000.00) (funded) [Interdisciplinary | [Role on Proposal: Literacy Researcher]
  • Hetherington, C. (Principal Investigator), Zak, J. (co-Principal Investigator), Dwyer, J. (co-Principal Investigator), Smith, P. (co-Principal Investigator), Borst, S. (co-Principal Investigator). S-STEM Track II: Educating future scientists and mathematicians from rural and underserved regions. (2019). National Science Foundation ($999,999.00). (funded) (02/01/20-02/01/2025) [Ceased: The Principal Investigator requested that I step off the grant when I transitioned to a faculty position at USF because he believed that I needed to be present at TTU to efficiently complete my research tasks on the grant.]. [Interdisciplinary] [Role on Proposal: Theorist/Qualitative Educational Researcher]
  • McEachron, B., Larmond, E., Johnson Austin, S., Smith, P. Passport 2 Literacy. (2019). The Caribbean Community Association’s receipt of the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, administered by the Hillsborough Community College Equity, Diversity and Special Programs, Tampa, FL. ($3870.00). (funded) (09/2019-01/20/2020) [Community Engaged Service Grant] [Role: Event Coordinator]
  • Serwadda, A. (Principal Investigator), Dwyer, J. (co-Principal Investigator). Maina, F. (Senior Personnel), Hewett, R. (Senior Personnel), Jin, F. (Senior Personnel), Smith, P. (Support Personnel), Moskal, B. (Senior Personnel). (2017). Applied data science for cyber security. National Science Foundation. ($600,000). (funded). (06/01/18-05/31/21) [Interdisciplinary] [Role: Educational Researcher and Pedagogical Innovator: Ceased]
  • Smith, P. (Principal Investigator). (2018). Problematizing (Il)legitimacy of Englishes across the diaspora. (2018). Scholarship Catalyst Program. Offices of the President, Provost, and Vice President for Research & Innovation, Texas Tech University. ($4000.00) (funded) (06/01/18-08/31/19) 
  • Dwyer, J. (Principal Investigator), Lesley, M. (co-Principal Investigator), Smith, P. (co-Principal Investigator), & Lee, J. (co-Principal Investigator). (2017-2018). College and Career Readiness standards review and revision project - English/Language Arts and Mathematics (CCRS-ELAM). Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. ($96,000.00). (funded). [Interdisciplinary] [Role: Instructional Support]
  • Smith, P. (Principal Investigator). Understanding the English(es) of foreign-born teacher educators. (2016-2019). Texas Tech University’s Division of Institutional Diversity, Outreach and Community Engagement. ($1000.00). (funded).

Engaged (Community) Outreach

  • Executive Board Member, Caribbean Community Association of Tampa Bay, Tampa, FL (2019-2022)
  • Literacy Champion Project Manager, Balanced Literacy Action Research Writing Workshop Partnership, East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood Grant, Lubbock Independent School District (LISD), Lubbock, TX (2016- 2017)
  • Literacy Champion, Balanced Literacy, East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood Grant, Lubbock Independent School District (LISD), Lubbock, TX (2015-2017)
  • Reading Clinic Coordinator, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (2013-2015)

Distinguished Guest

  • Smith, P. (2025). Awardee: Modern Language Association (MLA) Award Ceremony. Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Honorable Mention award for the book “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA.
  • Smith, P. (2025). White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans: Final event of the Biden-Harris Administration. Black Excellence Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Black Innovation, Inspiration and Information. U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Participant: Taskforce Meeting of the 79th United Nations General Assembly advancing literacy outcomes related to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Education). World Literacy Foundation. Yale Club of New York, NY.
  • Smith, P. (2023). Invited Participant: Task Force Meeting. World Literacy Foundation. New York, NY.

Recent Invited Talks

  • Smith, P. (2025). Keynote: Imperialist Blackness, immigrant Whiteness, and the reinscribing of semiolingual innocence. University of Georgia.
  • Smith, P. (2025). Keynote & Presentation: Transcendent imaginaries for a raced language of immigration & Cultivating translanguaging imaginaries through transnational nativity. NJTESOL/NJBE. 
  • Smith, P. (2025). Invited Speaker: Black History Month. Palm Beach County Library System. Virtual.
  • Afolalu, L., Smith, P., Nero, S., Austin, T. (Organizer), & Clemons, A. (Organizer). (2025). Invited Colloquium Speaker: “Contesting culturalessness: Developing hemispheric Black Language Pedagogies in World Language Education.” Discussant: L.J. Randolph Jr. To be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Keynote: Leveraging a language of forgiveness for flourishing: Black immigrant literacies. University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies. 
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: “Silencing invisibility: Toward a framework for Black Immigrant Literacies” and “Characterizing Competing Tensions in Black Immigrant Libraries: Beyond Partial Representation of Success.” Doctoral Seminar taught by Professor Dr. Patricia Edwards, Michigan State University, Lansing MI, Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: A book discussion. Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IA. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Rac(e)ing toward language for children & youth in a ‘post-colonial’ Caribbean. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: A book discussion. Broward County Libraries: Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Keynote: Positioning literate precarity as transraciolinguistic possibility. University of Montreal, Canada.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Panelist: Supporting Caribbean students in the classroom. Caribbean Community in Philadelphia. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: Intersections of race, language, and culture in the classroom. NJTESOL/NJBE. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Transraciolinguistics for the reimagination of postcolonial logics. Host: Paul Meighan, Chair of the TESOL International Bilingual-Multilingual Interest Section (B-MEIS) Panel, Decolonizing multilingualism. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Panelist: Global pathways. White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans and Discovery Education, USDOE & Secretary Cordona Raise the Bar and Power Up Initiatives. Moderator: Monique Toussaint | Panel Speakers: Siani Brown-Carr, Track and Field Student Athlete, Marquette University, Dr. Brandon Nichols, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Olive-Harvey College, City Colleges of Chicago, Dr. Kourtney Ross, Assistant Dean of Students, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago, Jacqueline Smalls, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Community Engagement, Transfr, Dr. Patriann Smith, Professor, Literacy Studies, University of South Florida, Jerome “JYD” Williams, Retired NBA Player and Chairman of JYD Project Inc. Chicago, IL.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Quantum entanglements of Englishes and peoples: Translanguaging imaginaries of innocence. Presented at the annual meeting of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, Tampa, FL.
  • Smith, P. (2024). Invited Speaker: Legitimizing migratory Englishes in the raciolinguicized subjectivities of multilingual educators. In M. Souto-Manning (Chair), Race, language, and nationality as geopolitical, occupational, and pedagogical borders in teaching and teacher education. Division K Vice-Presidential Session. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Keynote: The prism of Black immigrant literacies for transraciolinguistic justice. Virginia Commonwealth University, VA.
  • Smith, P. (2023). Graduation Ceremony Conferral Address: Flourishing through failure. University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2023). Invited Speaker: Languaging transnationality: Complicating (anti-)Blackness. In Themed Webinar Series (Sue Kasun, Renata Love Jones, Jessica Scott, Ana Solano-Campos, Eds.), 2022-2023 Webinar Series with the Center for Transnational and Multilingual Education, University, Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2023). Guest Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: Liberatory Caribbean imaginaries for flourishing. State University of New York (SUNY), Cortland. Virtual.
  • Smith, P. (2023). Keynote: “Bridging the chasm in languaging and literacies: The flourishing imperative.” University of Miami. Miami, FL.

Publications

Authored Books

Edited Books

Special Issues

Selected Journal Articles

Commissioned Reports

Selected Chapters in Books

 

Selected Professional Articles

Refereed Guest Edited Special Issues | Yearbooks

Watson, V., Smith, P., & Brown, A. (In preparation, 2023). Diasporic tellings of race, literacies, joys, and geographies in Black African immigrant youth. Research in the Teaching of English. (Editors: Dr. David Bloome & Editorial Team).
 
Smith, P., Cremin, T., Kucirkova, N. & Collier, D.R. (In preparation, 2023). Literacy for social justice: Charting equitable global and local practices. United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA): Literacy: Guest Appearances by Professors Drs. Arlette Willis and Barbara Comber.
 
Razfar, A. & Smith, P. (2022). Algorithm of love: Insights from immigrant literacies and narratives. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 35(6), 565-568.

Smith, P. (2020). Clarifying the role of race in the literacies of Black immigrant youth. Teachers College Record. Volume 122, Number 13.

Newsletter Publications, Media Productions & Media Mentions

Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Press Release. “Patriann Smith to Receive Honorable Mention for Black Immigrant Literacies.” Retrieved from https://www.mla.org/content/download/192074/file/2024-Mina-P-Shaughnessy-Prize-Press-Release.pdf 

USC alumna Dr. Patriann Smith honored by the MLA for groundbreaking work. University of the Southern Caribbean. https://usc.edu.tt/2024/12/19/usc-alumna-dr-patriann-smith-honored-by-the-mla-for-groundbreaking-work/ 

USF College of Education faculty make international impact participating in RISE Caribbean. University of South Florida. Retrieved from https://www.usf.edu/education/blog/2024/rise-caribbean-2024.aspx 

Patriann Smith elected as vice president of the Literacy Research Association. University of South Florida. Retrieved from https://www.usf.edu/education/blog/2024/patriann-smith-lra-2024.aspx 

Reading list for Black history month 2024. Teachers College Press. Retrieved from https://www.tcpress.com/blog/reading-list-black-history-month-2024/ 

LSE USAPP blog. 10th anniversary celebration. Retrieved from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2023/09/04/ten-years-of-lse-usapp-our-experts-reflect/ 

SIU community invited to lunch and learn about race language and immigration. Retrieved from https://news.siu.edu/2023/03/032723-SIU-community-invited-to-lunch-and-learn-about-race-language-and-immigration.php 

The Literacy Research Association December 2022 President’s Message on “Transcendent Literacy”. Retrieved from https://literacyresearchassociation.org/news/december-2022-presidents-message/ 

The Washington Informer. Recent & recommended books on improving Black literacy. Retrieved from
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/recent-recommended-books-on-improving-black-literacy/

The Literacy Research Association December 2022 President’s Message on “Transcendent Literacy”. Retrieved from https://literacyresearchassociation.org/news/december-2022-presidents-message/ 

RISE Caribbean initiative celebrates Year 1 of project, prepares for expanded research collaborations in the future. Retrieved from https://www.usf.edu/education/news/2022/rise-caribbean-initiative-celebrates-year-1-of-project.aspx 

Puget Sound Educational Service District: Washington: Labels or Limitations: Recommendations for Asset-Based Language for Multilingual Learners: 
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1629151446/psesdorg/vwlgx4gyazbfh7vkvzqp/RecommendationsforAsset-BasedLanguage082021FINAL.pdf  

Literacy Research Association (LRA) Introducing LRA Leaders. (2021). LRA February/March 2021 Newsletter. Retrieved from https://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/assets/LRA%20Newsletter%20February%20and%20March%202021.pdf 

Literacy Research Association (LRA) Message from the President. (2021). LRA April 2021 Newsletter. Retrieved from  https://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/assets/LRA%20April%202021%20Newsletter.pdf 

Literacy Research Association (LRA) Racial Justice in Literacy Webinar. (2021). LRA July 2021 Newsletter. Retrieved from https://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/assets/LRA%20Newsletter%20July%202021.pdf 

Literacy Research Association (LRA) Research Committee Virtual Series. (2021). LRA August 2021 Newsletter. What is ethical and socially responsible research? Retrieved from https://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/assets/LRA%20Newsletter%20August%202021.pdf  

Literacy Research Association (LRA) STAR Fellows in LRA Leadership. (2021). LRA August 2021 Newsletter. Retrieved from https://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/assets/LRA%20Newsletter%20August%202021.pdf 

USF associate professor launches interdisciplinary research center in partnership with Caribbean university. (2021). University of South Florida College of Education. Retrieved from https://www.usf.edu/education/news/2021/associate-professor-launches-interdisciplinary-research-center-caribbean-university.aspx 

Associate professor receives USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award. University of South Florida College of Education. (2021). Retrieved from https://www.usf.edu/education/news/2021/associate-professor-receives-usf-outstanding-research achievement-award.aspx 

USF Faculty Members Recognized with Outstanding Research Achievements Awards. University of South Florida. (2021). Retrieved from https://www.usf.edu/research-innovation/news/2021/faculty-outstanding-research-achievement-awards-22.aspx and https://spark.adobe.com/page/4kJBnp2weuPAJ/. 

Development of grant-funded educational research center underway in Caribbean. (2021). The Oracle. Retrieved from
http://www.usforacle.com/2021/05/25/development-of-grant-funded-educational-research-center-underway-in-caribbean/

Smith, P. (2021). Beyond anti-Blackness in bilingual education: Looking through the lens of the Black immigrant subject. American Educational Research Association Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group Newsletter, Spring Edition. [Invited]

Smith, P. (2021). A transraciolinguistic approach for literacy classrooms. voicEd Radio.

Smith, P. (2021). Five steps to address anti-Blackness: Black immigrant literacies. International Literacy Research Association Literacy Now Blog.

Smith, P. (2021). Translanguaging in the literacies of youth migrating to the U.S. and racialized as Black. American Educational Research Association Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group Newsletter, Spring Edition. [Invited]

Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Retrieved from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.

News Break. (2021). USF College of Education assistant professor to establish Caribbean educational research center through $3.6 million grant. Retrieved from News Break. 

New America Education Policy. (2021). Looking beyond the ‘typical’ English learner: the intersectionality of Black English learners in U.S. public schools. Retrieved from New America.

University of South Florida. (2021). USAID Awards COEDU Assistant Professor Patriann Smith $3.6 Million Grant. Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean. Retrieved from the University of South Florida College of Arts and Sciences.

University of South Florida. (2021). USAID Awards COEDU Assistant Professor Patriann Smith $3.6 Million Grant Anti-racism: Office of the President. Retrieved from The University of South Florida Office of the President.

University of South Florida. (2021). USF World celebrates Dr. Patriann Smith's $3.6 million USAID Award to establish an interdisciplinary educational research center in the Caribbean. Retrieved from USF World. 

University of South Florida. (2021). USF Newsroom: USF College of Education assistant professor to establish Caribbean educational research center through $3.6 million grant. Retrieved from the University of South Florida Newsroom.

Literacy Research Association Series of Collaborative Panel Discussions. (2021). Advancing Anti-Racism in Literacy Research. Retrieved from Literacy Research Association.

Childress, R. (2021). Literary research group seeks systemic on racial justice in field. Associations Now: Association perspectives. Retrieved from Associations Now. 

Trinidad Newsday. (February 7, 2021). Let's use literacy to open minds. Retrieved from Trinidad Newsday. 

University of South Florida College of Education News Stories. (2020). Literacy Studies program collaborates with Caribbean Community Association in Passport 2 Literacy event. Retrieved from the University of South Florida College of Education.

Smith, P. (2020). Why for Black speakers, despite what they are told, using ‘Standard English’ will not lead to acceptance. London School of Economics and Political Science United States American Politics and Policy (LSE USAPP) Blog.

Smith, P., Kumi-Yeboah, A., Chang, R., Lee, J., & Frazier, P. (2020). Why Eurocentric literacy measures may be creating the illusion that Black students are underperforming. London School of Economics and Political Science United States American Politics and Policy (LSE USAPP) Blog.

Schneider, J., Hadley, E., Panos, A., Smith, P., & Richards, J., Bennett, S., Gunn, A., Persohn, L., Frier, A., & Krause, M. (2020).Literacy studies at USF statement on anti-racism. University of South Florida.

Smith, P. (2019). Culture affects learning: Peer interaction in the classroom. The Daily Toreador.

Smith, P. (2018, January/February). Renewing hope with Englishes: Insights from middle schoolers. Literacy Today, 34-35. International Literacy Association (ILA).

Smith, P. (2017, March). Should non-standard English be taught in schools? Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS).

Smith, P. (2016, February) The Q&A: Patriann Smith, The Texas Tribune.

Smith, P. & Balyasnikova, N. (2015-2017). International Communication Interest Section Newsletters, Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL).

Anderson, A., Smith, P., Schneider, J. J., & Frier, A. D. (2015, March). Live! From Mount Olympus. Retrieved from YouTube.

Presentation

Selected Invited Presentations/Talks

Smith, P. (Invited, 2025). Keynote: Imperialist Blackness, immigrant Whiteness, and the reinscribing of semiolingual innocence. University of Georgia. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2025). Keynote & Presentation: Transcendent imaginaries for a raced language of immigration & Cultivating translanguaging imaginaries through transnational nativity. NJTESOL/NJBE.  

Smith, P. (Invited, 2025). Invited Speaker: Black History Month. Palm Beach County Library System. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2025). Invited Participant: White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans: Final event of the Biden-Harris Administration. Black Excellence Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Black Innovation, Inspiration and Information. U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2025). Awardee: Modern Language Association (MLA) Award Ceremony. Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Honorable Mention award for the book “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA.

Afolalu, L., Smith, P., Nero, S., Austin, T. (Organizer), & Clemons, A. (Organizer). (Invited, 2025). Invited Colloquium Speaker: “Contesting culturalessness: Developing hemispheric Black Language Pedagogies in World Language Education.” Discussant: L.J. Randolph Jr. To be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Keynote: Leveraging a language of forgiveness for flourishing: Black immigrant literacies. University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies.  

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: “Silencing invisibility: Toward a framework for Black Immigrant Literacies” and “Characterizing Competing Tensions in Black Immigrant Libraries: Beyond Partial Representation of Success.” Doctoral Seminar taught by Professor Dr. Patricia Edwards, Michigan State University, Lansing MI, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: A book discussion. Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IA. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Rac(e)ing toward language for children & youth in a ‘post-colonial’ Caribbean. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Virtual. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: A book discussion. Broward County Libraries: Virtual. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Keynote: Positioning literate precarity as transraciolinguistic possibility. University of Montreal, Canada.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Panelist: Supporting Caribbean students in the classroom. Caribbean Community in Philadelphia. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Participant: Taskforce Meeting of the 79th United Nations General Assembly advancing literacy outcomes related to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Education). World Literacy Foundation. Yale Club of New York, NY.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: Intersections of race, language, and culture in the classroom. NJTESOL/NJBE. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Transraciolinguistics for the reimagination of postcolonial logics. Host: Paul Meighan, Chair of the TESOL International Bilingual-Multilingual Interest Section (B-MEIS) Panel, Decolonizing multilingualism. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Panelist: Global pathways. White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans and Discovery Education, USDOE & Secretary Cordona Raise the Bar and Power Up Initiatives. Moderator: Monique Toussaint | Panel Speakers: Siani Brown-Carr, Track and Field Student Athlete, Marquette University, Dr. Brandon Nichols, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Olive-Harvey College, City Colleges of Chicago, Dr. Kourtney Ross, Assistant Dean of Students, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago, Jacqueline Smalls, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Community Engagement, Transfr, Dr. Patriann Smith, Professor, Literacy Studies, University of South Florida, Jerome “JYD” Williams, Retired NBA Player and Chairman of JYD Project Inc. Chicago, IL.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Quantum entanglements of Englishes and peoples: Translanguaging imaginaries of innocence. Presented at the annual meeting of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, Tampa, FL.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Invited Speaker: Legitimizing migratory Englishes in the raciolinguicized subjectivities of multilingual educators. In M. Souto-Manning (Chair), Race, language, and nationality as geopolitical, occupational, and pedagogical borders in teaching and teacher education. Division K Vice-Presidential Session. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Keynote: The prism of Black immigrant literacies for transraciolinguistic justice. Virginia Commonwealth University, VA.

Smith, P. (2023). Graduation Ceremony Conferral Address: Flourishing through failure. University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, In Preparation, 2023). Invited Speaker: Languaging transnationality: Complicating (anti-)Blackness. In Themed Webinar Series (Sue Kasun, Renata Love Jones, Jessica Scott, Ana Solano-Campos, Eds.), 2022-2023 Webinar Series with the Center for Transnational and Multilingual Education, University, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Guest Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: Liberatory Caribbean imaginaries for flourishing. State University of New York (SUNY), Cortland. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Keynote: “Bridging the chasm in languaging and literacies: The flourishing imperative.” University of Miami. Miami, FL.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Invited Participant: Task Force Meeting. World Literacy Foundation. New York, NY.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Keynote: “Rac(e)ing language and immigration: Affirming the lives and literacies of international students.” Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Keynote: “Channeling the change agent in you: Claiming Caribbean.” Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Invited Speaker: “But I’m not Black, I’m West-Indian”: Afro-Caribbean literacies of language, color and migration. To be presented in Honor of Caribbean Heritage Month by the Broward County Florida Library. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Keynote: Racialized Englishes: A call for translanguaging research in multilingual ‘English-Speaking’ classrooms. Honoring of the Life of Dr. Benji Chang. University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). Virtual.

Willis, A., McMillon, G., & Smith, P. (Invited, 2023). Featured Speaker: Affirming Black Students’ Lives & Literacies: Bearing Witness. University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Virtual.

Smith, P. (2022). Invited Speaker: De-essentializing linguistic Blackness and Black diasporic possibilities. Critical Conversation (Host: Tasha Austin). NJBE/NJTESOL. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: COEDU GSC Writing for Publication Workshop, with Bill Black and John Ferron. USF College of Education. Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Panelist: Writing for Publication Panel. Panel organized by COE Graduate Student Council. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Panelist: USF Network Caribbean Launch. Panel presented virtually by USF World. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: (Dis)Entanglements of racialized Englishes and peoples across “Black” and “white” worlds. TESOL BELPAF-Global Education Summer Symposium, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: Characterizing competing tensions in Black immigrant literacies. Doctoral Seminar taught by Dr. Eurydice Bauer, University of South Carolina, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: Migrating while multilingual and Black: Beyond the “(bi)dialectal” burden. Bilingualism Matters, (hosted by Dr. Eurydice Bauer & Lenny Sanchez), University of South Carolina, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: A transraciolinguistic approach. Howard School of Education Psychology Program, Course taught by Dr. Shanter Alexander, Washington, DC, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: Racialized entanglements for transraciolinguistically just methodological research. Ethnicity, Race and Multilingualism Committee, International ICG, and Multilingual and Transnational ICG, Literacy Research Association on (hosted by Kristen Pratt, Lina Trigos & Matt Deroo), AZ.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Writing and Literacies Twitter Chat (hosted by Dianne Wellington & Team), Indiana University, IA, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: “Silencing invisibility: Toward a framework for Black Immigrant Literacies” and “Characterizing Competing Tensions in Black Immigrant Libraries: Beyond Partial Representation of Success.” Doctoral Seminar taught by Professor Dr. Patricia Edwards, Michigan State University, Lansing MI, Virtual.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: Contributions of Caribbean immigrants to literacy in America. To be presented at the Broward County Libraries Division: Caribbean American Heritage Month. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2022). Invited Speaker: Black immigrant literacies: Racialized languaging across borders. Presented at the Center for Language Education Research at Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom. Virtual.

 (Invited, 2021, October). Speaker: Preparing anti-racist language teachers for diverse classrooms: A transraciolinguistic approach. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, PA.

Lee, C., McMillon, G., Yaden, D., Walker-Dalhouse, D., Brock, C., & Smith, P. (Invited, 2021, December). Invited Moderator: NAEd /LRA Civic reasoning and discourse. To be presented at the 2021 Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2021, December). Invited Discussant: Report on research methodologies in LRA. To be presented at the 2021 Literacy Research Association’s (LRA’s) Research Committee Symposium, Atlanta, GA.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2021, December). Invited Speaker: Translanguaging while Black: An imperative for racio(linguistic) justice in Englishes across the diaspora. To be presented at the 2021 Literacy Research Association’s (LRA) Multilingual and Transnational Innovative Community Group (ICG) Study Session, Atlanta, GA.

Smith P. (Invited, 2021, November). Invited Panelist: USF World: Global engagement panel. Presented online at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. 

Smith P. (Invited, 2021, September). Invited Session Panelist: Ethical and socially responsible literacy research: “Terminology” & “Racelessness”. Presented at the LRA Virtual Event on Ethical and Socially Responsible Literacy Research. Research Committee, Literacy Research Association, Virtual Series. 

Smith, P. (Webinar Organizer and Coordinator). (2021, August). Panelist: Racial justice in literacy research. Webinar organized, coordinated and presented by Literacy Studies in collaboration with David Anchin Center and the Literacy Research Association (100+ participants). Tampa, FL.

Smith, P. (2021, May). Invited Speaker: The case for translanguaging in Black immigrant literacies. Presented at the Oakland University Doctoral Class on Linguistics, Oakland, MI.

Smith, P. (2021, May). Invited Speaker: Harnessing the power of the research agenda. Presented at the School of Education, North Carolina Central University, Raleigh, NC.

Smith, P. (2021, April). Keynote: “Rac(e)ing toward language for children in a ‘post-colonial’ Caribbean. Presented at the Shortwood College, Jamaica, WI.

Smith, P. (2021, April). Invited Speaker: 'How (not) to sell a lie': Beyond (mis)classification of (Black immigrant) speakers of Englishes. In Maneka Brooks & Nelson Flores (Coordinators), Complexity of classification and reclassification of ELs. Presented at the 2021 American Educational Research Association conference, Orlando, FL.

Smith, P. (2021, April). Invited Speaker: A transraciolinguistic approach for literacy classrooms. Presented at the 2021 institute titled “Shifting linguistic landscapes: A new terrain for multilingual and transcultural pedagogies” coordinated by R. Zaidi, Umit Boz, and Eve Moreau, University of Calgary and the Calgary Board of Education funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Calgary, Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RCycjPIR70&t=2s DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15205.68324

Smith, P. (2021, March). Invited Session Panelist: Challenging anti-Blackness in language education. In Nelson Flores (Coordinator) in conjunction with Anya Uju, Aris Clemons, Language and race education panel. Presented at the

2021 Teaching English to speakers of other Languages (TESOL) Association conference, Houston, TX.

Smith, P. (2021, March). Invited Speaker: Transformational leadership for social impact. Presented at the University of the Southern Caribbean Leadership Workshop, Transformational Leadership: Social Impact and Civic Engagement, Trinidad, WI. 

Smith, P. (2021, February). Invited Speaker: Silencing invisibility: A framework for Black immigrant literacies: How does the Black immigrant literacies framework apply to the Canadian context? Presented at the University of Calgary Doctoral Class on Linguistics, Calgary, Canada.

Smith, P. (2021, February). Invited Speaker: Qualitative research methods. Presented at the University of Trinidad and Tobago Qualitative Research Class, Trinidad, WI.

Smith, P. (2021). Speaker: Preparing teachers for linguistically diverse classrooms: A transraciolinguistic approach. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Willis, A. & Smith, P. (2020, December). Invited Speaker: Advancing anti-racism in literacy research. Presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Virtual Conference. 

Selected Recent Conference Presentations

Smith, P. (2025). Div G Fireside Chat: Strategic silence & bold resistance: Navigating educational renewal in an era of oppression. Chairs: Ronald Cunningham & Kristina Johnson-Yates. Panelist for the Graduate Student Council invited Speaker Session at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Smith, P. (2025). Advancing a multilingual and transnational ethos for Black linguistic reparations in urban education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Smith, P. (Panelist) (Invited, 2025). Language and Social Processes SIG. 11th Annual Language and Social Processes Mentoring Session. Chairs: Emily Machado, Jungmin Kwon, Tairan Qui. Denver, Colorado. Workshop at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO. 

Smith, P. (Invited, 2025). Inosans jan nwè: Unmasking the decolonizing tensions of translingualism. In Sidury Christiansen & Zhongfeng Tian (Chairs), Decolonizing academic writing: A translingual approach. Discussant: Suresh Canagarajah. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver, CO.

Smith, P. (Invited, 2024). Theory ↔ Practice: Perspectives on literacy that drive educational and social change. Literacy Research Association, Las Vegas, NV.

Skerrett, A., Bauer, E., & Smith, P. (2024). In bed with the colonizer: Raciolinguistic seduction, marriage, divorce. In Symposium “Leveraging the multilingual repertoires of Caribbean and Afro-Diasporic peoples for literacy development.” Caribbean Studies Association, Castries, Saint Lucia.

Smith, P.  (Accepted). Black Englishes and the global multilingual imperative. In Huseyin Uysal & Pramod Sah (Chair & Discussant). Paper accepted by the 2024 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Omogun (Afolalu), L., Nalubega-Booker, K., Frieson, B. Presiado, V. In Chair (L Omogun/Afolalu) & Discussant (P. Smith). (2023, December). (Re)defining multilingualism: A collective conversation about Black youth multilinguistic experiences across spaces. Symposium presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA.

Skerrett, A., Bauer, E. & Smith, P. (2023, June). “Parsing raciolinguistic ideologies: The case of the English-speaking Caribbean.” In Symposium “Decolonizing literacies in Caribbean literacy pedagogies.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Croix.

Smith, P. (2023, March). Opening literacy doors through translanguaging: Transraciolinguistics for a global world. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World Literacy Summit. Oxford University, UK. 

Smith, P. (2023, March). Transraciolinguistics for (re)imagining entanglements of racialized languages and peoples. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR.

Smith, P. (2023, March). Colloquium: Shifting raciolinguistic ideologies. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR.

Laxmi, O., Li, G., Chen, E., Deroo, M., Cardenas, L., Axelrod, A., & Sun, Z. (2023, April). Leveraging transnational funds of knowledge for more equitable education for multilingual learners. In V. Watson (Chair & Session Organizer) and Smith, P. (Invited Discussant), Symposium presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Watson, V., Knight-Manuel, M., & Berends, M. (2023, April). Vice Presidential Session: African immigrant youth: schooling, education, and civic engagement in the African diaspora. In V. Watson (Chair & Session Organizer) and Smith, P. (Invited Discussant). Symposium presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Warrican, S.J., Smith, P., Leacock, C.J., Hines, C., King, J., Dedrick, D., Cobb-Roberts, D., Kim, E., Walker, C., Mahon, E., Roberts, J., Hyatt, T., & Auld, J. (2023, April). In Chairs (S.J. Warrican & P. Smith) & Discussants (T. Esnard & A. Hunte), Transforming the future of educational research: RISE Caribbean. Symposium presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Smith, P., Chen, Y., Yin, Y., Michels, J., Leacock, C.J., Hunte, A., & Kumi-Yeboah, A. (2023, April). Beyond dichotomized representations of ‘language at home’ on PISA: Insights from Black immigrant literacies. Paper presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Kumi-Yeboah, A. & Smith, P. (2023, April). Perspectives of West African-born immigrant students’ socio-cultural and academic experiences in United Stated public schools. Paper presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Ibrahim, A., Chang, B., Willis, A., & P. Smith (Symposium Organizer), Watson, W., Zaidi, R. (Symposium Co-Organizer) & McMillon, G. (2022, April). Critical literacy for racial justice: Cultivating equity through intersectionality. Symposium presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Smith, P. (2022, April). Race(in)g critical literacy: An Afro-Caribbean immigrant perspective. In A. Ibrahim, B. Chang, A. Willis, P. Smith (Symposium Organizer), V. Watson, R. Zaidi (Symposium Co-Organizer) & McMillon, G., Critical literacy for racial justice: Cultivating equity through intersectionality. Symposium and included paper prepared for presentation at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Smith, P. (2020, December). Ideological tensions across Englishes: Implications for literacy education. Presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Virtual Conference.

Smith, P. (2020, December). Nuances in teacher enactment of a transraciolinguistic approach. In M. Metz, Symposium Organizer and Presenter; D. Martinez, Chair and Discussant; K. Seltzer, Presenter, Melinda Orzulak, Presenter, Disrupting a Standard Language Ideology: Exploring tensions in teachers’ evolving metalinguistic & raciolinguistic awareness. Presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Virtual Conference.

Smith, P. (Accepted Symposium). [Session Organizer and Presenter]. Clarifying the role of race in the literacies and Englishes of ‘Black immigrant’ youth. In A. Razfar (Discussant). In conjunction with E. Braden, K. Bryan, A. Butler, B. Hotchkins, L. Kiramba, M. Knight-Manuel, V. Watson. Symposium and included paper prepared for presentation at the 2020 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Schneider, J.J., Jones, M., & Smith, P. (2020, February). On deficits, dominance, and the eradication of culture: Toward imaginative, access-promoting pedagogies. Paper to be presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the JoLLE conference, Athens, GA.

Bauer, E. Sanchez, L. & **Smith, P. (2020, January). “I have magic in my mouf!” Racialized translanguagi practices of emergent multilinguals. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference for School Effectiveness and Improvement. Morocco.

 

Contact Info

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Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Success and Excellence
psmith4@usf.edu
USF Tampa campus EDU 105

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