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Spring 2008 MidTerm | Newsletter

Upcoming Meetings, Seminars, and Special Events

Spring 2008

Friday, May 9, 2008 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Dulles 334 History of the Book Reading and Discussion Group: Jared Gardner will be sharing a draft of selections from a chapter on the penny press, story papers, and dime novels, 1836-1896. For more information, contact group moderator Alan Farmer.

Friday, May 30, 2008 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ICRPH Knight House 104 E. 15th Ave Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies: "It's a Wrap!" The agenda for the year-end meeting includes a special celebration, and plans for conference collaboration and the summer schedule (see below).

Friday, May 30, 2008 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Dulles 168 History of the Book Reading and Discussion Group: Lewis Ulman, on "Reliable Witnesses?: A Rationale for Multimedia Textual Editions." For more information, contact group moderator Alan Farmer.

Fall 2008

Thursday, October 9, 2008 4:00 p.m. ICRPH Knight House 104 E. 15th Ave LiteracyStudies@OSU Autumn Lecture: Jerry Zaslove (lnstitute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University).

Winter 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009 Ohio State University The Annual Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies, featuring Lesley Bartlett (Teachers College, Columbia University).

Spring 2009

April 3 – 5, 2009 Ohio State University Expanding Literacy Studies, An International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate and Professional Students, sponsored by LiteracyStudies@OSU. See below for the Call for Proposals

We invite submissions to the LiteracyStudies@OSU Quarterly Newsletter and Midterm News.
News and announcements may be submitted to literacystudies@osu.edu.

Literacy Studies Open House: Recapping the Day's Events

LiteracyStudies@OSU hosted an OPEN HOUSE on Friday, April 25 at the program's offices at the George Wells Knight House. Literacy Studies began in 2004 as a Working Group of the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. "One of the main things we do at the Institute is provide different kinds of support—money, space, assistance—to groups of faculty and students that are engaged in some work that is collaborative," said ICRPH Director Chris Zacher. "And there is no doubt that over the past three-plus years that Literacy Studies has become the poster child for what we think collaboration can be." Today, LiteracyStudies@OSU collaborators and colleagues represent more than 40 disciplines and most of the OSU colleges, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, education, medicine, and law.

The Open House was attended by nearly 50 faculty, staff, and students from across campus. Literacy Studies students and staff were on hand to talk with visitors about the initiatives and opportunities for involvement, including the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies and the more informal graduate student seminar. Graduate students also presented their plans for the Expanding Literacy Studies conference, unveiled the visual identity, and released the call for proposals.

For students, the day began with a breakfast gathering at 9:30 a.m., followed by the Open House, the April graduate student seminar and lunch, and an afternoon of conference-related meetings. Conference committee members from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kent State University, and Michigan State University joined OSU graduate students for the day, which ended with a dinner party at Harvey and Vicki Graff's home.

—Vicki Daiello (Art Education)
Conference Steering Committee Co-Chair

Student Conference Committee Releases Call for Proposals

Expanding Literacy Studies Banner.
Expanding Literacy Studies is the first international, interdisciplinary conference on literacy studies for graduate and professional students. It is being organized and hosted by graduate students at The Ohio State University and nine other major universities. The conference is sponsored by Literacy Studies at The Ohio State University. It will be held at The Ohio State University April 3-5, 2009.

The Call for Proposals was unveiled on April 25 at the LiteracyStudies@OSU Open House. It reflects the vision and goals of the conference: to expand the dialogue, explore the landscape, and map the intersections of literacy studies as a framework for our ongoing critical investigations of literacy, broadly defined.

The program committee invites proposals from graduate and professional students in all fields. Included in the Call and excerpted below are possible points of entry, ways for graduate students to participate, opportunities for collaborating on presentations and proposals, and plenary session descriptions.

Possible Topics and Points of Entry:

Ways to Participate:

We will begin reviewing conference proposals September 1, 2008.

Proposals will not be accepted after October 15, 2008.

To learn more about the conference and to submit proposals, go to http://literacystudies.osu.edu/conference.

—Kelly Bradbury (English),
Conference Program Committee Co-Chair

GradSem: "It's a Wrap!"

It's been a big year for the Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies. Last month's meeting brought together nearly 40 students for lunch and a discussion of work on education during slavery and after Emancipation in the American South, organized by Lindsay DiCuirci.

At the May 30 meeting we will celebrate our accomplishments and chart the course for the coming year. Our activities will include:

Paying Tribute
Kate White has provided leadership and support to the seminar as chair for the past two years. Join us for a special event to thank and celebrate Kate's contributions!

Planning Ahead
This summer we have the opportunity to reach beyond (and within) the GradSem to expand our work on literacy by collaborating with others. We will begin thinking about how we can generate innovative and informative collaborative proposals for the Expanding Literacy Studies Conference that will be held at OSU April 3-5, 2009. And in the spirit of summer, we want to mix it up and have some fun! Come prepared to think "outside of the seminar" as we plan activities for the summer and beyond.

—Shawn Casey (English) and Audra Slocum (Teaching & Learning)
Incoming Co-Chairs of the GradSem

Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies

Winter Quarter marked the start of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies. The interest was immediate. The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies requires 21 – 25 hours of coursework in 5 courses. At least 14 hours must come from outside the student's home graduate program. Ohio State's strengths in literacy studies range widely, as the curriculum demonstrates. See below for a list of Summer and Fall 2008 course offerings.
  1. Core Courses 13 – 15 hours
    1. First Core Course 5 hours
      • English 750: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Literacy (offered Wi Qt).
    2. Second Core Course 5 hours
      • English 884: Literacy Studies: Past and Present (offered Sp Qt).
    3. Third Core Course 3-5 hours (Select one course from the following list)
      • Arts & Sciences 720: Scientific Literacy
      • Education T&L 803: Language and Society
      • Education T&L 804: Trends and Issues in Language, Literacy, and Culture
      • Education T&L 901: Changing Perspectives in Language, Literacy, and Culture
      • Education T&L 906: Language Learning across Cultures
      • English 789: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Digital Media
      • English 883: Studies in Literacy
      • Near Eastern Languages and Culture 648: Studies in Orality and Literacy
  2. Elective Courses 8 - 10 hours
    The areas in which students might concentrate their elective courses include reading; writing and digital media; language and culture; social, cultural, and historical studies; visual, spatial, arts and performance; science, technology, health, and medicine. (Note: Third Core Courses may also count as electives.)

Summer 2008: GIS in Literacy Studies Elective Course Offerings

Anthropology Design Education T&L English

Fall 2008: GIS in Literacy Studies Core Course Offerings

Education T&L English

Fall 2008: GIS in Literacy Studies Elective Course Offerings

Anthropology Dance Design Education P&L Education PAES Education T&L English Psychology

News Items and Announcements

Spring Conference.
Mike Rose (UCLA)
Mike Rose sent word that he has launched a blog on his website at http://mikerosebooks.blogspot.com/. He plans to post a new entry every week or two. Check it out. His "hope is that this blog will foster an online community…."
Spring Conference.
Kelly Bradbury (English/Literacy Studies, PhD Candidate)
The Graduate School announced the winners of this year's Graduate Associate Teaching Award and Kelly Bradbury is among the winners. The GATA award is Ohio State's highest form of recognition for graduate teaching associates, and it recognizes GTAs who exhibit exceptional teaching. GATA winners receive a $1500 honorarium.

Kelly was also awarded a fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing their dissertations. Her dissertation is currently titled "The Theory and Practice of Intellectualism in the U.S.: Literacy, Lyceums, and Labor Colleges." Her dissertation director is Harvey Graff.


Spring Conference.
New Edition: National Literacy Campaigns and Movements: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
With a New Introduction by editors Robert F. Arnove and Harvey J. Graff (Transactions 2008). This book offers the first systematic attempt to examine, critically and comparatively, the concepts and facts of large-scale literacy campaigns in more than a dozen societies over nearly five-hundred years. It offers a valuable historical lesson not only for historians, but also for educators: that instead of concentrating only on the recent period, we should use the vast and complex history of literacy movements to shed understanding on the present and future of literacy. A major new introduction to this edition asserts recent literary campaigns and the lessons provided by their success and failures. It also describes how the focus of some movements has evolved.

LiteracyStudies@OSU: An Initiative

LiteracyStudies@OSU is fostering a critical, cross-campus conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy, bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding together to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships. We are building a sense of collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, education, medicine, and law.

Executive Group

Harvey J. Graff, English; History graff.40@osu.edu
Steve Acker, TELR; Communications/Journalism acker.1@osu.edu
Mollie Blackburn, Education blackburn.99@osu.edu
Sandy Cornett, Health Sciences cornett.3@osu.edu
Marcia Farr, Education; English farr.18@osu.edu
Anne Fields, University Libraries fields.179@osu.edu
Henry Fields, Dentistry cornett.3@osu.edu
Susan Fisher, Biology fisher.14@osu.edu
Carolina Gill, Industrial, Interior, & Visual Comm. Design gill.175@osu.edu
Terry Gustafson, Chemistry gustafson@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Kay Halasek, English halasek.1@osu.edu
Kay Bea Jones Architecture jones.76@osu.edu
Alan Kalish, Teaching & Learning Center kalish.3@osu.edu
Jeffery K. McKee, Anthropology mckee.95@osu.edu
Beverly Moss, English moss.1@osu.edu
Leslie Moore, Education moore.1817@osu.edu
Amy Pope-Harman, Pulmonary & Critical Care harman-1@medctr.osu.edu
Doug Post, Medicine doug.post@osumc.edu
Marcy Raymond, Principal, Metro High School raymond@themetroschool.com
Cindy Selfe, English selfe.2@osu.edu
Peter Shane, Law shane.29@osu.edu
Amy Shuman, English; Folklore shuman.1@osu.edu
David Staley, History; Goldberg Center staley.3@osu.edu
Kevin Tavin, Art Education tavin.1@osu.edu
Andy Thomas, Medicine thomas@osumc.edu
Lewis Ulman, Humanities; English ulman.1@osu.edu
Mindy Wright, Director, Community Partnerships in ASC wright.7@osu.edu

Shawn Casey, Doctoral Student, English casey.169@osu.edu
Lindsay Dicuirci, Doctoral Student, English dicuirci.2@osu.edu
Susan Hanson, Academic Program Coordinator, LiteracyStudies@OSU hanson.94@osu.edu
Edward Adelson, Executive Dean, ASC adelson.3@osu.edu
Randy Smith, Vice Provost smith.70@osu.edu
Chris Zacher, Director, ICRPH zacher.1@osu.edu

LiteracyStudies@OSU is supported by the College of Humanities,
Department of English, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities (ICRPH), and the Arts and Science Colleges at The Ohio State University.