Amy Seely Flint is a professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Global Learning. Her research interests include critical and new literacies, teacher professional development, and early literacy development. Amy has an active record of grant activity, including federally funded projects by the US Department of Education and USAID. Amy was PI on Project PAL South Africa, a longitudinal study examining teachers’ knowledge of literacy, new literacies, and technology in the Western Cape of South Africa. In addition to this project, Amy worked extensively with primary grade teachers over a 5-year period in Atlanta, Georgia, USA studying pedagogical practices and professional identity when working with English learners. Amy is published in top-tier research and practitioner journals, including Reading Teacher, Journal of Literacy Research, Educational Leadership, Language Arts, and Teacher and Teacher Education. She is the author of Literate Lives: Teaching Reading and Writing in K-6 classrooms (Wiley), and co-editor of New Methods of Literacy Research (Routledge).