Writing & Literacies On Air

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