Each week, 1-2 people will curate the ideas and writing from our class into a featured blog. We will use these blogs to connect with colleagues outside our course.
The Last Melon As always, we started our night together with food, and some good conversations like a weekly meeting between friends. I don’t think there has ever been a warmer feeling than walking into this grad seminar each week. We laugh, we cry, and talk about life in the worst and best ways. This …
Literacy highlights Humanity & Research Construction (A Post-Discussion Reflection) THE SETTING: It’s October. The sun is setting as we file into class, deep yellows and pumpkin orange paint the sky in lazy brush strokes. We had moved classrooms and now find ourselves in a conference setting–one long table extends the length of the room, adorned …
I have never before thought of a graduate seminar as being similar to a TV show, and yet it is the term “two-parter” that best describes our previous two classes in our Theories of Literacy course, cliffhanger and all. And so, as with any good two-parter episode, the second part must begin with an adequate …
Have you ever recommended a book for someone to read? Have you ever published or posted some aspect of your writing? Have you even re-tweeted a political opinion? Congratulations! You’re a literary sponsor. I know this seems like a huge responsibility and that’s exactly what our class discussed this week as we dove into Deborah …
Greetings everyone! For week four of our Theories of Literacy class, we had two readings. The first was “Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as a Social Practice” by Deborah Brandt and Katie Clinton, and the second “Éclosions in Literacy Research: Rereading Brandt and Clinton’s ‘Limits of the Local’” by Daniel E. Ferguson …
