Faculty/Staff Profile

Shannon D. Collins, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education

Highest Degree University: University of Tennessee
College/Unit: College of Education
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Bartoo (BH) 307
PO Box: 5042
931.372.6265
In his book The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer writes, “If a work is mine to do, it will make me glad over the long haul, despite the difficult days. Even the difficult days will ultimately gladden me, because they pose the kinds of problems that can help me grow in a work if it is truly mine.” Teaching, reading, writing, thinking, learning are facets of Shannon Collins’s work at Tennessee Technological University that especially gladden him. An Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education, Shannon’s primary responsibility is teaching undergraduate literacy courses. Shannon’s goal is to develop his learners as readers and writers so they may go on to develop children and adolescents as readers and writers. Shannon also directs the Upper Cumberland Writing Project.

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Tennessee Technological University awarded Shannon with its Outstanding Faculty Award in Teaching in 2009. His most recent publications may be found in English Journal, Language Arts, and Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative, Visual, and Performing Arts—Volume II. Shannon serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and English Journal. He sits on the executive board of the Assembly of Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and serves on the National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) Promising Young Writers Advisory Committee. Shannon lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, with his wife, Susan, and their three book reading, sports playing children: Molly, Craig, and Maggie. When not in school, the whole family may be found anywhere there exists ball fields, mountains, lakes, or beaches.

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