Dr. Patriann Smith
About Dr. Patriann Smith
Dr. Patriann Smith is a tenured associate professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Smith uses a transdisciplinary approach to examine cross-cultural, cross-racial, and cross-linguistic factors that impact Black immigrant literacy teaching and learning. She has proposed ‘a transraciolinguistic approach’ and the ‘Black immigrant literacies’ framework for clarifying Black Caribbean immigrant Englishes and literacies by highlighting ideologies that influence transcultural literacy teacher education and international literacy assessment. She has also proposed 'transraciolinguistic justice' for transcending current limitations of transracialized language via the impending global metaverse. Her scholarship which lies at the intersection of race, language and immigration, is geared towards enhancing cross-linguistic, cross-cultural and cross-racial understanding, locally and globally, in and beyond schools and universities. Dr. Smith’s experiences include serving as a Reading Specialist Program Coordinator, managing the East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood Literacy Champions Initiative and coordinating the University of Illinois' Summer Reading Clinic. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. S. Joel Warrican of the $3.6 million funded initiative, RISE Caribbean, designed to build capacity for research in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Dr. Smith serves in numerous editorial roles and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Literacy Research Association. Dr. Smith has published over 70 articles in journals such as the American Educational Research Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, International Multilingual Research Journal, and The Reading Teacher. She is co-author of the book, “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness” and author of the book now available for pre-order and to be published by Teachers College Press in Fall 2023 titled “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language and Immigration in the Classroom.”