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Lisa Kelly, Ph.D.

Lisa Faircloth Kelly's, Ph.D., interests include developmental readers, students with dyslexia and reading assessments.

Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Literacy Studies; she teaches both undergraduate and graduate teacher education courses. Kelly earned her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of North ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ and her Ph.D. in Reading Education from Texas Woman’s University. She has worked in the field of education for over thirty years, serving as a classroom teacher for preschool through high school, a learning center director, a dyslexia specialist and a Response to Intervention coordinator. 

She had articles published in Notes on American Letters, presented at the Rose Spicola Forum in Literacy Learning, and was a co-presenter at TexTESOL and for the ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Anchin Center webinar entitled Differentiated and Responsive Literacy Instruction for all ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬. She co-created and now teaches Supporting ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ with Disabilities in Literacy: Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties, a course offered through the ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Anchin Center. She loves teaching future teachers and received an Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award for the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Assistant Professor of Instruction, Literacy Studies
kelly321@usf.edu
ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Tampa campus, EDU 207J