Dr. Anna Smith
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Biography
Dr. Anna Smith received her Ph.D. at New York University. She is currently an Associate Professor at Illinois State University, following an Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship in Writing and New Learning Ecologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age (Open University Press) and co-editor of the Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures (Routledge). Her recent research on writing development, transliteracies, and the intersection of teaching and learning can be found in journals such as Language, Culture, and Social Interaction, Theory into Practice, Literacy, and Journal of Literacy Research.
Current Courses
TCH 599.008 Dissertation Research
TCH 430.091 Educational Technologies and Design
TCH 482.092 Professional Research II
TCH 469.002 Professional Research In Literacy Learning II
PhD
New York University
Divergent Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy in a Digital Age
Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age
2025
Literati Award for Most Outstanding Article in English Teaching: Practice and Critique
Emerald Publishers
2024
College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award
Illinois State University
2021
University Service Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2021
University Research Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2019
Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy
Literacy Research Association and University at Albany, SUNY
2018
Digital Media and Learning Multi-Method Data Fellow
Connected Learning Alliance
2017
Grants and Contracts
The Education Now Lab
Anna Smith, Kristin Anne Carlson, Natatlie Shaheen, Stephen Weiser.
Provost's Office ARCS. 2025 - 2026
Book, Authored
Handbook of writing, literacies, and education in digital cultures
Kathy A Mills, Amy Stornaiuolo, Anna Smith, Jessica Zacher Pandya.
(2017), Routledge
Developing writers: Teaching and learning in the digital age
Richard Andrews, Anna Smith.
(2011), Open University Press
Book, Chapter
Positioning Youth: Contemporary Waves of Theory Building in Writing and Writing Development
Anna Smith.
(2025), 8, 168-184, 10.4324/9781003492269-13, Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy, Routledge
Critical Literacy, Digital Platforms, and Datafication
T Philip Nichols, Anna Smith, Scott Bulfin, Amy Stornaiuolo.
(2021), 345--353, The Handbook of Critical Literacies, Routledge
From Mimeographs to New Learning Ecologies
Anna Smith.
(2021), 224-230, 10.1163/9789004467040_012, Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices, BRILL
Mobilities of Youth Print Practices in Cosmopolitan Conversation Video Composition
Anna Smith, Matthew Hall.
(2021), 145-164, 10.1163/9789004467040_008, Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices, BRILL
Across, Through, and With: Ontological Orientations for Lifespan Writing Research
Anna Smith.
(2020), 15--26, Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado
Always Already Relocalized: The Protean Nature of Context in Lifespan Writing Research
R. J. Dippre, Anna Smith.
(2020), 27--38, Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado
Waves of theory building in writing and its development, and their implications for instruction, assessment, and curriculum
Anna Smith.
(2018), 81--99, Theoretical models and processes of literacy, Routledge
Experiencing Electracy: Digital Writing and the Emerging Communicative Landscapes of Youth Composing Selves
Anna Smith, Jon Wargo.
(2017), 37--49, Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures, Routledge
Journal Article
Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence and composing just education futures
Anna Smith, Jennifer Higgs, Jose Ramon Lizarraga, Vaughn WM Watson.
English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 23 (1), 1--5, (2024)
Digital platforms and the ELA classroom
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Earl Aguilera, Sarah Burriss, Roberto de Roock, Will Fassbender, Bethany Monea, T Philip Nichols, Jessica Zacher Pandya, Brad Robinson, Anna Smith, others.
National Council of Teachers of English, A Policy Research Brief, James R. Squire Office, (2023)
Tinkering toward teacher learning: a case for critical playful literacies in teacher education
Cherise McBride, Anna Smith, Jeremiah Holden Kalir.
English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 22 (2), 221-233, (2023), 10.1108/etpc-08-2022-0114
Feedback Redux: Affirming Youths’ Learning Lives Through a Design Thinking Approach to Feedback
Anna Smith, Ankhi G Thakurta.
Voices from the Middle, 29 (4), 14--18, (2022)
Flexibility by and for Design: Reimagining Learning Structures in Unsettled Times
Ankhi G Thakurta, Anna Smith.
Voices from the Middle, 29 (3), 14--17, (2022)
Authoritative discourses of development in curricular policy on digital writing
Anna Smith, Carolyn Hunt.
Theory Into Practice, 60 (2), 1--12, (2021)
Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning
Anna Smith, Cherise McBride, Christopher Rogers.
Pedagogies: An International Journal, 16 (2), 202-219, (2021)
What more can we do? A scalar approach to examining critical digital literacies in teacher education
Olivia G. Stewart, Betina Hsieh, Anna Smith, Jessica Zacher Pandya.
Pedagogies: An International Journal, 16 (2), 125-137, (2021)
A Flat CHAT perspective on transliteracies development
Anna Smith, Paul Prior.
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, (2020)
Literacies across sponsorscapes: mobilising notions of literacy sponsorship
Anna Smith, Autumn J West, Sarah J McCarthey.
Literacy, 54 (2), 22--30, (2020)
Special section on Writing Across
Paul A Prior, Anna Smith.
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 24, (2020)
Visualizing mapping as pedagogy for literacy futures
Amelie Lemieux, Anna Smith, Cheryl McLean, Jennifer Rowsell.
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 35 (2), 36-58, (2020)
Fostering Cosmopolitan Dispositions through Collaborative Classroom Activities
Aaron Gierhart, Sarah Bonner, Anna Smith, Robyn Seglem.
The Ethics of Digital Literacy: Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels, 2, 89, (2019)
Connected Teaching and Learning in K-16+ Contexts: An Annotated Bibliography
Sarah Lohnes Watulak, Rebecca Woodard, Anna Smith, Lindy Johnson, Nathan Phillips, Katalin Wargo.
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 18 (2), 289--312, (2018)
Emerging Media, Evolving Engagement: Expanding Teachers’ Repertoires of Young Adult Literary Study and Response
Anna Smith, Robyn Seglem.
Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature, 79, (2018)
Multiplicities in Motion: A Turn to Transliteracies
Anna Smith, Amy Stornaiuolo, Nathan C. Phillips.
Theory Into Practice, 57 (1), 20-28, (2018), 10.1080/00405841.2017.1390334
The Fallacies of Open: Participatory Design, Infrastructuring, and the Pursuit of Radical Possibility
Stephanie West-Puckett, Anna Smith, Christina Cantrill, Mia Zamora.
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 18 (2), 203-232, (2018)
Developing a Transliteracies Framework for a Connected World
Amy Stornaiuolo, Anna Smith, Nathan C. Phillips.
Journal of Literacy Research, 1-24, (2017)
Developing a Transliteracies Framework for a Connected World
Amy Stornaiuolo, Anna Smith, Nathan C. Phillips.
Journal of Literacy Research, 49 (1), 68-91, (2017), 10.1177/1086296x16683419
Facilitating Students’ Stances toward Technology-Enhanced Reading and Writing in the Classroom
Sarah McCarthey, Katrina Kennett, Anna Smith, Autumn West.
Journal of Literacy and Technology, 18 (2), (2017)
Remix as Professional Learning: Educators’ Iterative Literacy Practice in CLMOOC
Anna Smith, Stephanie West-Puckett, Christina Cantrill, Mia Zamora.
Education Sciences, 6 (1), 12, (2016)
Envisioning possibilities: visualising as enquiry in literacy studies
Anna Smith, Matthew Hall, Nick Sousanis.
Literacy, 49 (1), 3--11, (2015)
Methodology matters
Rosie Flewitt, Kate Pahl, Anna Smith.
Literacy, 49 (1), 1--2, (2015)