Frank Serafini
Dr. Frank Serafini is known for his work in the areas of visual literacy, multimodal analysis, and children’s literature. Frank has been an elementary classroom teacher, a literacy specialist, a college professor, and an educational consultant for the past twenty-five years. During that time, Frank has published ten professional development textbooks with Heinemann, Scholastic, Pearson, and Teachers College Press, and is currently working on a new book, Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Visual and Multimodal Phenomena with Teachers College Press. Frank has garnered numerous awards, including the Distinguished Professor of Children’s Literature from the International Literacy Association, and Faculty Teaching Awards at both the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Arizona State University. He has also published in Literacy Research and Instruction, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Children’s Literature in Education, Journal of Children’s Literature, Visual Communication, Language Arts, and The Reading Teacher. Frank has written and illustrated seven children’s picturebooks, including the Looking Closely Series with Kids Can Press earning a Bank Street Best Book Award and a Teachers Choice Award for his Looking Closely picturebook series. Dr. Serafini is a Professor of literacy education and children's literature in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
You can find Frank online at frankserafini.com and on Twitter @doctorserafini.
To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2021, Mar. 16). A conversation with Frank Serafini. (Season 1, No. 18) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/237A-F225-96D4-3C2D-7DB3-A
