Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! In this episode we talk with Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, Dr. Keisha L. Green, Dr. Esther O. Ohito, and Dr. Justin A. Coles about their critical approach to editorial work with Equity & Excellence in Education.

This Scholarship Spotlight Series is brought to you by the The W&L Graduate Board Podcast Team: Karis Jones, Alex Corbitt, Gemma Cooper-Novack, and April Camping. Special thanks to Alex Corbitt organizing and editing this episode!

On Creating Possibility- A Chat With The EEE Editorial Board

Welcome to the AERA Writing & Literacies SIG podcast! This episode's theme is on Multilingual Literacies research and scholarship. In the spirit of community, the podcast team hopes this episode works to highlight important scholarship, push the literacies field, and mentor and cite others. 

Three amazing scholars participated in this discussion: 
Dr. Marcela Ossa Parra - assistant professor, Queens College, NYC
Dr. Renata Love Jones - assistant professor, Georgia State University
Dr. Yalda Kaveh - assistant professor at Arizona State University

Focus Questions 

1.	What are the main research questions you are focused on right now, and what questions do you think are important for the field to address in studying multilingual literacies? How do your questions connect to pressing equity concerns on the ground/in the field?

2.	Can you talk about the ways you center student, teacher, family, and community voices in your research? What methods would you encourage other researchers to use in order to amplify the voices of all involved?

3.	What challenges have you encountered in your work, and what did you do in response? Advice for other researchers and scholars facing these challenges?

A Discussion on Research and Scholarship in Multilingual Literacies

In this latest AERA's Writing & Literacies SIG Podcast, we spoke with acclaimed scholars: Drs. Karen Wohlwend, Cassie J. Brownell, Haeny Yoon, Beth Buchholz, and Kim Lenters to discuss play literacies. 
Hosted by: Graduate Student Board Podcast Leaders, Sarah Jerasa & Stacey Hanzel.

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W&L SIG Podcast : Play Literacies

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Inquiring Minds"! In this episode, we talk with Dr. Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Dr. Stephanie Renee Toliver, Dr. Jasmine Ma, Dr. Csaba Osvath, and Dr. Jenifer Schneider about arts-based literacies.

Arts-Based Literacies

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, 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-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. 


Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Associate Professor at Penn GSE, studies how people of color are portrayed, or not portrayed, in children’s and young adult literature, and how those portrayals shape our culture. She regularly reviews children’s books featuring diverse heroes and heroines, teens and tweens caught between cultures, and kids from the margins for the Los Angeles Times. She has a particular interest in young adult fantasy literature and fan culture. A former English and language arts teacher, Thomas also explores how teachers handle traumatic historical events, such as slavery, when teaching literature. 

Dr. Thomas has published her research and critical work in the Journal of Teacher Education, Research in the Teaching of English, Qualitative Inquiry, Linguistics and Education, English Journal, The ALAN Review, and Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Her work has also appeared in Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors Through Reading (ALA Editions, 2012), her co-edited volume Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era: Theory, Advocacy, Activism (Peter Lang, 2012), and A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women’s Lives (University of Illinois Press, 2009). Dr. Thomas is a former NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellow (2008-2010 Cohort), serves on the NCTE Standing Committee on Research (2012-2015), and was elected by her colleagues to serve on the NCTE Conference on English Education's Executive Committee (2013-2017). Her early career work received the 2014 Emerging Scholar Award from AERA's Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group. In 2014, she was also selected as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.

This Scholarship Spotlight Series is brought to you by the The W&L Graduate Board Podcast Team: Karis Jones at New York University, Alex Corbitt at Boston College, Gemma Cooper-Novack at Syracuse University, Jessica Lough at West Virginia University and April Camping at Arizona State University. Special thanks to Alex Corbitt for his thought leadership and video editing work on this episode!

Representation and (Re)Writing Speculative Fiction

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-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Associate Professor at Penn GSE, studies how people of color are portrayed, or not portrayed, in children’s and young adult literature, and how those portrayals shape our culture. She regularly reviews children’s books featuring diverse heroes and heroines, teens and tweens caught between cultures, and kids from the margins for the Los Angeles Times. She has a particular interest in young adult fantasy literature and fan culture. A former English and language arts teacher, Thomas also explores how teachers handle traumatic historical events, such as slavery, when teaching literature.

Dr. Thomas has published her research and critical work in the Journal of Teacher Education, Research in the Teaching of English, Qualitative Inquiry, Linguistics and Education, English Journal, The ALAN Review, and Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Her work has also appeared in Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors Through Reading (ALA Editions, 2012), her co-edited volume Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era: Theory, Advocacy, Activism (Peter Lang, 2012), and A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women’s Lives (University of Illinois Press, 2009). Dr. Thomas is a former NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellow (2008-2010 Cohort), serves on the NCTE Standing Committee on Research (2012-2015), and was elected by her colleagues to serve on the NCTE Conference on English Education's Executive Committee (2013-2017). Her early career work received the 2014 Emerging Scholar Award from AERA's Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group. In 2014, she was also selected as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.

This Scholarship Spotlight Series is brought to you by the The W&L Graduate Board Podcast Team: Karis Jones at New York University, Alex Corbitt at Boston College, Gemma Cooper-Novack at Syracuse University, Jessica Lough at West Virginia University and April Camping at Arizona State University. Special thanks to Alex Corbitt for his thought leadership and video editing work on this episode!

Publishing Across Modalities and Communities

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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)

Writing and Literacies Featured Summer Podcast Series - Episode 1 - Literacies from the Margins

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 disciplinary literacies and implications for designing more equitable contexts for learning in English classrooms.
Scott Storm is a doctoral student in English Education at New York University. He has taught students English in urban public schools for over a decade; he was founding English teacher at Harvest Collegiate High School where he served as Department Chair and Professional Learning Community Organizer. Scott studies disciplinary literacies, critical literacies, and adolescents’ literary sensemaking. His work has appeared in English Journal, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacies, English Teaching Practice and Critique, and Schools: Studies in Education.

- Ted Kesler, @tedsclassroom - Queens College (CUNY)
Ted is an associate professor in the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department. He is Chair of the NCTE Poetry and Verse Novel Notables Committee. Recently, Ted’s research has focused on weaving children’s social semiotic resources into their classroom-based work, transforming writing workshop into composing workshop.

- Sue Nichols, @suemarynichols - University of South Australia
Sue Nichols is a literacy researcher and teacher educator, holding the position of Associate Professor at UniSA, Australia. While Sue’s research has often taken her out of institutional sites to explore diverse literacy practices and identities, she is also very interested in the preparation of multiliterate educators for inclusive, diverse, connected classrooms. 

- Jayne C Lammers, @JayneLammers - University of Rochester
Jayne is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. She’s the Director of English Teacher Preparation and a founding Associate Director in the Center for Learning in the Digital Age. She recently spent 5 months in Indonesia as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar learning about the digital literacies of secondary students in Central Java. 

This video was compiled by members of the W&L SIG Grad Student Board Podcast Team: April Camping, Karis Jones, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Alex Corbitt

W&L Featured Summer Podcast Series Ep. 2 - Upcoming Research in Literacies Development & Assessment

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 throughout Glendale and Phoenix, Arizona - where she was born and raised. Her research focuses on Latina mothers and daughters language and literacy practices, the teaching of young writers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, and family and community literacies. Dr. Flores is the founder of Somos Escritoras/We Are Writers, a creative space for Latina girls (grades 6-12) that invites them to share and perform stories from their lived experiences using art, theater and writing as a tool for reflection, examination and critique of their worlds.

Dr. Rae L. Oviatt is assistant teaching faculty of Multicultural Education at Wichita State University and a high school English teacher. Dr. Oviatt is a former middle school English Language Arts (ELA) teacher and English Language Development (ELD) teacher for emergent bilingual and multilingual youth. For the last fifteen years, Rae has learned and taught in solidarity alongside linguistically and culturally diverse youth and their communities across urban centers in Atlanta (GA), Bangkok (Thailand), Indianapolis (IN), and Lansing (MI). Her research focuses on the intersections of multimodal literacies and community coalition building with BIPOC adolescent youth and undergraduates of Color, and white preservice teachers’ dispositions of anti-racist solidarity in and out of high school English classrooms. Rae is the founder of Lansing Teen Voices, a community coalition youth participatory action research project, which works with and alongside QTBIPOC communities in and across Lansing, Michigan for systems change.

This episode's music was composed and preformed by Jack Walbridge.
https://alphabuddha.bandcamp.com/

Literacies In Community

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: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects. Ewing is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. Her first book for young readers, Maya and the Robot, will be published by Kokila Books in summer 2021. Currently she is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published by One World. 

This Scholarship Spotlight Series is brought to you by the The W&L Graduate Board Podcast Team: Karis Jones at New York University, Gemma Cooper-Novack at Syracuse University, Alex Corbitt at Boston College, Jessica Lough at West Virginia University and April Camping at Arizona State University. Special thanks to Alex Corbitt for his leadership and Karis Jones and Gemma Cooper-Novack for their audio editing work on this episode!

Music credit: Mouvements Libres by Tryphème (https://linktr.ee/trypheme). This music is used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.