Professor/Graduate Coordinator
West Chester University

Kevin Flanigan, PhD, is Professor in the Literacy Department at West Chester University (WCU) in Pennsylvania. He teaches literacy courses and serves as Graduate Coordinator of both the M.Ed. in Literacy/Reading Specialist Program and the WCU Reading Center. A former middle-grades classroom teacher and reading specialist/coach, Dr. Flanigan’s scholarship focuses on developmental word knowledge and interventions for students with reading difficulties. To help educators put research into practice, he regularly works with teachers and schools to help improve their students’ reading achievement. He is coauthor of several books, including Assessment for Reading Instruction (5th edition), Literacy Intervention in the Middle Grades, and Developing Word Recognition.