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Email: mstjem@gsu.edu

Joyce E. Many joined Georgia State University in September, 1994, after serving on the faculty at Texas A&M University. Her research has concentrated on understanding children’s literacy processes and the classroom contexts that shape those processes, on exploring factors impacting teacher education students’ performance in literacy education courses, and, most recently, on describing the scaffolding processes teachers and peers use to support student learning. Dr. Many has made over 100 presentations at state, national, and international conferences.

Her work has appeared in Language Arts, Reading Research Quarterly, JRB: The Journal of Literacy, Reading Psychology, Reading and Writing Quarterly, Reading Research and Instruction, Reading Horizons, and the Scottish journal Education in the North. She is also the editor for the books, The Handbook of Instructional Practices for Literacy-Teacher Educators and Reader Stance and Literacy Understanding: Exploring the Theories, Research, and Practice.

Dr. Many teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focusing on reading and language arts education and educational research. She is the unit coordinator for the Language and Literacy faculty and has served on the editorial boards of seven national journals. Many received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northeast Louisiana University and her doctorate from Louisiana State University.