Faculty Profiles

Wenyu Guo

assistant professor, literacy studies 

Wenyu Guo Headshot

Email: guow@usf.edu
Phone Number: 813-974-1398
Office Location: USF Tampa campus, EDU 202

Dr. Wenyu Guo is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of South Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Teaching & Learning and Certificate of Graduate Study in Qualitative Research from the University of South Carolina with a focus on immigrant and transnational literacy, multicultural children鈥檚 literature, and qualitative research methodology. 

Dr. Guo's research explores language and literacy practices of transnational youth of Color and their families within transnational migration contexts. Her research agenda is oriented around examining the dynamic language and literacy practices of transnational youth of Color and centering their stories and lived experiences to inform research-based advocacy in their schools, communities, and homes, fostering and sustaining their full cultural, linguistic, and literacy repertoires. Drawing upon critical theories of literacy, Asian American Studies, and decolonization theories, Dr. Guo leverages community-engaged, practitioner inquiry, and multi-sited empirical scholarship to promote anti-oppressive multi-literacies education in schools, homes, communities, and digital spaces for im/migrant and/or transnational youth and their families.

Two of her research goals are: (a) exploring how transnational youth of Color and their families engage in sociopolitical and civic learning through literacy practices (e.g., reading, writing, digital practices), (b) examining (im)migrant parents/caregivers鈥� family literacy and their ethnic-racial socialization.  

Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as the Bilingual Research Journal, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Children鈥檚 Literature, and The International Handbook of Literacies in Families and Communities, etc. Dr. Guo is an Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award Fellow for the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE). She is also deeply involved in educational and literacy organizations, serving as a Research Committee member for the Literacy Research Association (LRA) and the Children鈥檚 Literature Assembly of NCTE.

Beyond her research, Dr. Guo is dedicated to working with and within BIPOC communities through community-based service initiatives. In her current project, Dr. Guo collaborated with Tampa Bay Area Asian American community and co-found a Community Literacies Lab for local (im)migrant families. This lab offers biweekly literacy workshops for community teachers, (im)migrant children, youth, and their parents/caregivers, fostering diverse language and literacy practices, providing opportunities to unpack immigrant and transnational experiences, and promoting equitable and justice-oriented literacy.

Honors and Awards

  • , National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) (2024-2025)

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, 黑料老司机 (2025)

  • Outstanding International Graduate Student Award, University of South Carolina (2023)

  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award, University of South Carolina (2023)

  • Terry & Scott Peterson Fellowship, University of South Carolina (2020)

  • Graduate Civic Scholars Program, University of South Carolina (2020)

Leadership Positions

  • Committee member: Research committee (2025 鈥� 2027)

  • Member: Undergraduate Program Committee (UPC), College of education, University of South Florida (USF)

  • Member: Institutional Review Board Committee, LLEEP department, College of education, 黑料老司机 (USF)

  • Committee member: , Research Award Committee

  • Appointed Chair: 2026 Annual Author Breakfast, Children鈥檚 Literature Assembly, NCTE

  • Appointed Co-Chair: 2025 Annual Author Breakfast, Children鈥檚 Literature Assembly, NCTE

Courses Taught

  • RED 4724: Intermediate Literacy

  • RED 6540 Assessment in Developing Literacies

  • RED 6247: Supervision in Reading

  • LAE 3411: Diverse Portrayals in Children's Literature

  • LAE 4311: Teaching Print & Multimodal Texts in the Elementary Education

Refereed Articles

  • Guo, W. & Sun, Y. (2025).. The International Handbook of Literacies in Families and Communities. (Eds, Edwards, P., Compton-Lilly, C. & Li, G.). Edward Elgar Publishing. 
  • Guo. W. (2024). . The Journal of Children鈥檚 Literature. 50(2): 25-37. 
  • **Guo, W. (2024). . WOW Stories.
  • Sanchez, L., Bauer, E., Wang, Y., Guo, W., Hao, L. Hwang, K. (2023). . Bilingual Research Journal. 
  • Wang, Y., S谩nchez, L., Bauer, E., Guo, W., Hao, L., & Hwang, K. (2023). A new language, a new culture,   and a new way of thinking: Examining how parents navigate barriers to support their emerging multilingual learners. In V. Lee & K. Lewis (Eds.), Advancing Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Approaches to Multilingual Family-School Partnerships (pp. 1-24). Lexington Books.
  • Wang, Y., Guo, W., & Sui, X. (2022). . The Reading Teacher.

Grants

  • Tian, Z. (Principal Investigator), Guo, W. (Co-Principal Investigator). (2023). Fostering Multiracial Solidarity through Antiracist Translanguaging Pedagogy: Integrating Asian American Children鈥檚 Literature in a Chinese Immersion Program. ACTFL research priorities grant. ($5000)

  • Guo, W. (Principal Investigator). (2020). Between Two Worlds 鈥� Asian American Children (Re)negotiate Bicultural Identities through the Culturally Relevant Children鈥檚 Literature. SPARC Graduate Research Grant. ($2900)

Scholarly Creative Activity

  • Guo, W. (Invited, 2024). Language is a Superpower, A zine created by Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), with cover art and comics. Bilingual Research Journal: 47 (4), 567-569.
  • Guo, W. (Invited, 2023). Second Reaction: The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee 鈥� Breaking Barriers and Boundaries. First Opinions, Second Reactions 16.1.