Faculty Profiles
Alexandra Panos
Assistant Professor, Literacy Studies
Email Address: ampanos@usf.edu
Office Location: USF Tampa campus, EDU 202-I
Alexandra Panos (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Measurement and Research in the College of Education at the 泡芙视频app of South Florida. She completed her Ph.D. at Indiana 泡芙视频app Bloomington with a focus on Literacy, Language, and Culture Education and Qualitative Inquiry Methodology. She earned her M.A. at DePaul 泡芙视频app Chicago with a focus on Urban and Multicultural Education before teaching Middle Grades English Language Arts and Media in Chicago, IL. Currently she serves as Director of Research for the and as one of the founding editors for the newly launched open access practitioner pocket journal, . Through a growing partnership with USF Libraries, Dr. Panos and her colleagues have recently launched a freely accessible resource portal as part of the Florida Environmental Natural History Portal, .
Dr. Panos centers her scholarship on the reality that, to quote Octavia Butler, "there is no end to what a living world demands of you." For her, this means prioritizing place-based and community-engaged activities that center the ecological and geographic dimensions of literacy education. She learns from longitudinal and collaborative connections and shares her own learning with a variety of communities through open access resources and high impact scholarly publications. Her work has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Linguistics and Education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Literacy UKLA, Language Arts, and International Studies in Sociology of Education among others.