Angie Zapata
- Associate Professor
- Faculty Fellow, Dr. Lydia Walker Faculty Fellowship in Reading and Literacy
Angie Zapata, PhD is an Associate Professor of Literacy in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum. She is a longtime elementary teacher of bilingual and multilingual children, a teacher educator of undergraduate students preparing to be teachers of language and literacy in diverse, elementary settings, and advises doctoral students in Literacy Education. She teaches undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses focused on language, literacy, identity, and literature for children and youth in both online and face-to-face settings.
Grant Funded Research
Primary Investigator, Foundation for Child Development | Project Title: Teacher and Researcher Collaborative Inquiry as Ongoing Professional Development: Improving Early Childhood Experiences In Racially, Linguistically, and Ethnically Complex Missouri Classrooms
Primary Investigator, Family, Community, and Emergent Literacy Birth-K | Comprehensive Literacy State Development Program | U.S. Department of Education
Affiliations
- Co-Founder, Missouri Language and Literacies Center
- Faculty, Language and Literacies for Social Transformation
Areas of Expertise
- Language and Literacies Education
- Early Reading Education
- Literature-Based Instruction
- Translingual/Transmodal Literacies