Anne McGill-Franzen

Anne McGill-Franzen is professor of literacy studies and director of the Reading Center at the University of Tennessee. In addition to twice receiving the Albert J. Harris Award for research contributing to our understanding of reading/learning disabilities, Dr. McGill-Franzen has also received the Nila Banton Smith Research Dissemination Award and the Dina Feitelson Award from the International Reading Association for her work with emergent readers. She is the author of a number of published research reports and of several books, the most recent being the Handbook of Reading Disabilities Research. She has also been involved in the Diagnostic Teaching program co-sponosred by UNICEF and IRA in developing greater expertise in elementary school teachers in several African nations.