Faculty Profiles

Mandie B. Dunn

Assistant Professor, English Education

Mandie Dunn

Email Address: mdunn8@usf.edu    
Phone Number: 813 974-3533
Office Location: USF Tampa campus EDU 308-G

Dr. Mandie Bevels Dunn is an assistant professor of English Education at the University of South Florida. In her scholarship, Dr. Dunn centers teachers’ lives and well-being by studying the relationship between teachers’ emotions and their pedagogy. In particular, she has been studying how teachers who were grieving a death managed their emotions in the context of reading, writing, and thinking with students. In this work, Dr. Dunn identifies the challenges grieving teachers face as well as the supports that will help sustain them following the death of a loved one. Her published research findings can be found in venues such as Reading Research Quarterly, English Education, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique.

EDUCATION:

  • PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, Michigan State University
  • MEd, English Education, The University of Georgia
  • BA, English; BSEd English Education with 6-12 Secondary English Teaching Certification, The University of Georgia