Celeste C. (C.C.) Bates, Ph.D.
Bates’s research interests include use of technology in teacher training, classroom management and differentiated reading instruction in the primary grades. Bates is an assistant professor of literacy education, and is also the director of the Reading Recovery® and Early Literacy Training Center for South Carolina.
Mikel Cole, Ph.D.
Cole's areas of interest include English language learners in K-12 settings, preparation of teachers to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students, and the intersection of language policy and practice in schools and classrooms. He is an assistant professor in literacy, language and culture.
Susan Cridland-Hughes, Ph.D.
Crindland-Hughes' areas of interest include adolescent literacy; morality-literacy studies, history of literacy, culture and literacy, and English education. She is an assistant professor in English education.
Pamela J. Dunston, Ph.D.
Dunston’s research focuses on struggling readers, digital literacy, and adolescent literacy and reading motivation. She is an associate professor of literacy education.
Susan King Fullerton, Ph.D.
Fullerton’s research interests include strategic reading processes, comprehension instruction, literary response and discussion, struggling learners (including deaf/hard of hearing), and teacher expertise and decision making. She is an associate professor of literacy education.
Anna Hall, Ph.D.
Hall’s research interests include early childhood writing instruction and the writing attitudes of teachers and students. She is an assistant professor in early childhood education.
Kathy Headley, Ed.D.
Headley’s research interests include adolescent literacy, writing and interdisciplinary specializations in comprehension and vocabulary. She is actively involved in policy development and implementation for literacy improvement. She is Senior Associate Dean for the Division of Collaborative Academic Services in the College of Education and the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences. She is also a professor of literacy education in the College of Education.
Dani Herro, Ph.D.
Herro's areas of interest include game play and game design in the classroom, digital media and learning, and in-school practices with emerging technologies. She is an assistant professor in digital media and learning.
Jacquelynn A. Malloy, Ph.D.
Malloy’s current research emphases include learner engagement, particularly as related to instructional design, and discussion as a tool for learning and developing communities of learners – particularly in the content areas. She is also investigating teacher visioning and transformative teaching practices with a focus on equity education. She is enthusiastic about the contribution of formative and design experiments in advancing transformative educational goals.
Jonda C. McNair, Ph.D.
McNair specializes in literature intended for youth with an emphasis on books written by and about African-Americans. Her research interests include African-American children’s literature and politics of children’s literature. She is an associate professor of literacy education.
Phillip Wilder, Ph.D.
Wilder is an assistant professor in adolescent literacy. He received his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. While at Illinois from 2007-2013, his work in a school-university partnership through the Center for Education in Small Urban Communities used collaborative practitioner inquiry to design responsive teaching practices, which expand notions of literacy and learning in secondary schools. Now at Clemson, his primary research involves partnering with schools to improve responsive teaching practices and the disciplinary literacies of adolescents.
