Kristi Amatucci

Dr. Kristi Amatucci has been at Georgia Gwinnett College since 2010. She currently teaches EDUC 3650A, Instructional Methods in Secondary Classrooms, and ELAN 3500, Literacies & Literature for Adolescent Readers, for the School of Education. Before completing her Ph.D., Amatucci was a high school literature and composition teacher for six years in Athens, Ga. She is a lifelong reader and writer.

Amatucci has presented her work at regional, national and international conferences. She has published in English Education, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, Qualitative Inquiry, the International Review of Qualitative Research, and Cultural Studies<=>Critical Methodologies.

Amatucci also enjoys travel, movies, music and yoga.

• Doctorate – language and literacy education – University of Georgia
• Master’s – English education – University of Georgia
• Bachelor’s – comparative literature – University of Georgia

• Reading and writing pedagogies
• Digital literacies
• Teacher education
• Qualitative methodologies

• Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award (2011), The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry
• Genelle Morain Award for Outstanding Doctoral Teaching (2010), Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
• Teacher Consultant, Red Clay Writing Project