Writing & Literacies On Air

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