Writing & Literacies On Air

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! This episode, titled “Writing Across Modalities and Communities,” is an interview with Dr. Eve Ewing. Dr. Ewing discusses how her work engages different genres and audiences as well as advice for younger scholars about navigating academia. She concludes the interview by citing writers and scholars of color who continue to inform her thinking and with a description of her recently released comic book "Outlawed." Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection 1919 and the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side. Her first book, the poetry collection Electric Arches, received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year's best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! In this episode we interview Christopher R. Rogers, Dr. Tracey Flores, and Dr. Rae L. Oviatt about their work with literacies and communities. Christopher R. Rogers (he/him/his) was born and raised in Chester, PA and is now a Ph.D student within the Reading/Writing/Literacy program at PennGSE. His current research interrogates the intersections of race, space, and place in community literacy efforts, relating how intergenerational place stories may cultivate neighborhood preservation and social action. Dr. Tracey T. Flores is an assistant professor of Language and Literacy at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches Language Arts Methods and Community Literacies in the K-5 teacher education program. Dr. Flores is a former English Language Development (ELD) and English Language Arts (ELA) teacher, working for eight years alongside culturally and linguistically diverse students, families and communities in K-8 schools

This episode features: - Meagan J. Meehan, @artsycr8tor - University of Buffalo (SUNY) Meagan J. Meehan is an artist and author who holds a Bachelors in English Literature from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), a Masters in Communication from Marist College, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning at University at Buffalo (SUNY). Meagan’s research focuses on using Entertainment-Education to increase vocabulary scope and application. - Sarah W. Beck, Karis Jones, Scott Storm, @swbook411; @karis_m_jones; @ScottWStorm - New York University Sarah W. Beck is a teacher educator and writing researcher based at NYU whose work with teachers and scholarship focuses on classroom writing assessment, writing instruction, and disciplinary literacy. Karis Jones is a PhD candidate in NYU's Teaching & Learning English Education program. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines issues of power and transformation at the intersection of students' fandom and disc

"Visit tinyurl.com/y4uwutxj to upload your research video!" This episode features: - Abdul-Qadir Islam, @aqeyes - Teachers College, Columbia University - Anna Smith, @anna_phd - Illinois State University - Bethany Monea, @bethanymonea - University of Pennsylvania - The Digital Discourse Project, @digitaldiscourseproject; @amystorn; @ElyseEA; @bethanymonea; @rabanigarg; @kagrogan15; @educatorsWAB; @ebonyteach; @maestraphilly - The National Writing Project & University of Pennsylvania We are a team of researchers and teachers embarking on a five-year project to study how secondary ELA teachers learn to facilitate high-quality discussions of literature in online spaces. - Alex Corbitt, @Alex_Corbitt - Boston College This video was compiled by members of the W&L SIG Grad Student Board Podcast Team: Karis Jones (@Karis_M_Jones), Gemma Cooper-Novack (@gemmasupernova), Alex Corbitt (@Alex_Corbitt), April Camping (@AprilCamping)

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! This episode, titled “Publishing Across Modalities and Communities,” is Part 2 of our two-part interview series with Professor Tananarive Due and Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. Professor Due and Dr. Thomas discuss how they work in academic and fan communities to publish work across a variety of modalities. They conclude the interview by citing writers and scholars of color who continue to inform their thinking. Tananarive Due is is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG new podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! This episode, titled “Representation and (Re)Writing Speculative Fiction,” is an interview with Professor Tananarive Due and Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas about their histories and critical involvement with(re)writing the genre of speculative fiction. In Part I of this two part series, they answer the questions: How does your work rethink or resist the conventions of speculative fiction? What conventions of speculative fiction need to be reworked, and how are you as scholars challenging these conventions in similar (or different) ways? Tananarive Due is is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Du

Titled “Common Strands: Multimodality, Literacy, and International Perspectives,” this podcast surveys Dr. Jennifer Rowsell’s engagement with New Literacy Studies as a graduate student, the rise of multimodality in the field of literacy studies, and the current landscape of UK and Canadian literacy research. Dr. Rowsell is professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University in St. Catherine’s Ontario. Dr. Rowsell is the 2016 recipient of the Writing & Literacies SIG’s Steve Witte Award for Lifetime Achievement. Named for Stephen P. Witte, leading scholar of writing theory and research and a founding editor of the journal Written Communication, the Steve Witte Award is presented to a senior scholar who has made significant contributions to research in the area of writing and literacies through a particular academic work or body of work that has contributed significantly to scholarship in the area of writing and literacies. Dr. Rowsell scholarship e

Titled “Expanding Context: Literacy, Politics, and Civil Rights,” this podcast surveys the origins and expansions of the Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group from the perspective of one of its former presidents, Dr. Stuart Greene, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. We discuss the serendipitous influences of SIG members in his scholarship in the field of writing, his commitment to creating space for differing voices in his time as president and now, and the role he envisions for critical community research and literacies as a civil right as the field moves forward. This Oral Histories Series is brought to you by the SIG Historian, Dr. Robert LeBlanc, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, and the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team, led by Dr. Anna Smith, Assistant Professor at Illinois State University. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Vaughn Watson, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University.

Titled “Early Days: The Emergence of Writing as a Distinct Focus”, this podcast surveys the origins of the Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group from the perspective of one of its early members, Dr. George Newell. Dr. Newell is professor of Adolescent, Post-Secondary and Community Literacies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Ohio State University, and together we discuss the emergence of research and focus on writing as a unique subject of inquiry at the AERA, as well as future directions for writing research. Brought to you by the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team with special thanks to SIG Historian Dr. Robert LeBlanc, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Vaughn Watson, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University. His series is inspired by Bakhtin’s “notion of 'social heteroglossia’ across which utterances carry forward complementary and contradictory, not fixed, meaning

Our second podcast, “Writing Towards Diverse Democracies through Public Scholarship” surveys writing and literacies scholarship as it pertains to public scholarship, engagement, and community partnerships. Dialoguing with community collaborators, we had the opportunity to learn from two groups doing community-based work. Our first team included Dr. Valerie Kinloch (Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning and the Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University) and Ms. Rhonda Johnson (former president of the Columbus Education Association and currently the Education Director for the City of Columbus and the Mayor’s Office). The second team we had the opportunity to dialogue with was comprised of Dr. Joanne Larson (Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum Program at the University of Rochester) and Daniel Hart (literacy specialist and community partner at Eas

This podcast surveys the emergence of the writing and literacies special interest group and asks the questions: “Why writing?" and "Why now?” Featuring some of the Writing and Literacies SIG's founding members: Dr. Sarah W Freedman Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley and Dr. Glynda Hull, the Elizabeth H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Chair in Undergraduate Education at UC-Berkeley, we engage in dialogue concerning the “what’s next” question for the SIG as the AERA annual meeting reaches its centennial. Brought to you by the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team with special thanks to Jon Wargo, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Matthew Hall, Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy, The College of New Jersey.