Joyce Many

Joyce Many is a Professor with the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University, holding the Ferrer Endowed Professorship of Multiple Literacies. Her work focuses on expanding literacy definitions to include multimodal and digital communication frameworks, particularly in urban education settings.

• Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (Louisiana State University, 1989)
• M.Ed. in Elementary Education (Northeast Louisiana University, 1980)
• B.A. in Elementary Education (Northeast Louisiana University, 1978)

Her research examines how teachers can scaffold literacy development across interdisciplinary contexts, with recent emphasis on digital literacies, culturally responsive pedagogy, and critical literacy in secondary content classrooms. Publications span journals like Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, and International Journal of Technology in Education.

Dr. Many has led two statewide consortia - the University System of Georgia’s Reading Consortium (1999-2009) and Georgia’s Teacher Education Research Consortium (2014-2019), resulting in literacy curriculum development, online coursework, and research centers. She chairs doctoral dissertations and mentors undergraduate research interns.