Janet C. Richards
Janet C. Richards is a professor in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where she teaches courses in literacy theory and methods, writing, and qualitative research.
She is Senior Editor of the Literacy Practice and Research; she has worked with classroom teachers and higher education faculty in Thailand, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Pakistan and Romania. She is also a former elementary classroom teacher and writes extensively on preservice and inservice teachers’ communication skills.
She was honored in 2016 by the International Literacy Association with an Award for Scholarly Research.
Richard's current research examines the connection between reading and writing.