Julie Pennington, Ph.D.

Interim Chair of the Department of Educator Preparation, Professor of Literacy Studies and Graduate Program Director

Summary

Julie Pennington is the interim chair of the Department of Educator Preparation, a professor of literacy studies and director of the Center for Learning and Literacy. She has focused on the areas of literacy and diversity throughout her career as a classroom teacher and literacy intervention teacher for fourteen years and currently as a teacher educator and researcher. Her research interests include the use of autoethnography in teacher education and pursuing questions related to how teachers approach literacy instruction in linguistically and culturally diverse settings.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • PH.D., University of Texas at Austin
  • M.Ed., University of Texas at Austin
  • B.A., University of Texas at Austin