Sharon Augustine

Sharon Murphy Augustine is a professor of education in the Tift College of Education at Mercer University, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs overseeing programs in Macon and Mercer’s regional academic centers. With 20 years of experience in higher education and nine years as a high school English teacher prior to that, Dr. Augustine brings a rare depth of both classroom and administrative expertise to her work in teacher preparation and educational leadership.

Dr. Augustine has held a distinguished series of leadership roles at Mercer, including Director of Graduate Studies, Director of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Chair of Teacher Education, and Assistant Dean of Teacher Education. In the classroom, she has taught a broad range of courses at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, spanning curriculum design, literacy, learning theory, and writing. Her scholarly work sits at the intersection of theory and practice, with research and teaching interests that include socio-cultural theories of teaching and learning, adolescent literacy, writing pedagogy, qualitative research methods, teacher education reform, and gender in education.

Her research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Teacher Education, English Education, English in Australia, The Teacher Educator, and Qualitative Inquiry. Dr. Augustine earned her B.A. in English from Agnes Scott College, her M.Ed. in Secondary English Education from Georgia College & State University, and her Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education from the University of Georgia.