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Literacy Studies GradSem: Disciplined Interdisciplinarity

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies, or GradSem, has come to play an important role in the interdisciplinary experiences of graduate students across the Ohio State campus. The group meets monthly, typically the final Friday, for lunch and a student-organized program or presentation and discussion.
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Expanding Literacy Studies: Conference Planning Progress

It has been a year since Harvey J Graff asked OSU graduate students who had taken courses in Literacy Studies or were otherwise involved in LiteracyStudies@OSU activities and groups if they would like to organize a conference for graduate students...
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Speical Sessions Set

Kelly Bradbury (English), co-chair with Shari Savage (Art Education) of the Expanding Literacy Studies Program Committee, recently announced that the conference program will feature three special sessions. The conference is slated for April 3-5, 2009, on the Ohio State campus.
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Fall Quarter Course Ops

Three courses that fulfill the "Third Core Course" requirement for the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies still have space available.
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Health Literacy Makes the Master Schedule

ARTS&SCI 709 Health Literacy G 3, which was developed by Sandy Cornett (Health Sciences)...
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Summer and Fall Quarter courses announced for GIS in Literacy Studies.

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Not Your Mother’s Literacy, But Perhaps Your Daughter’s

What do information literacy, visual literacy, health literacy, and spatial literacy have in common? They involve processes or competencies that resemble or involve reading and writing. They are also among the literacies that students who pursue a new Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies at The Ohio State University get to sample critically.
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LiteracyStudies@OSU Encourages Interdisciplinary Scholarship

The story of LiteracyStudies@OSU encompasses a university’s worth of people and disciplines.
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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.

New Edition: National Literacy Campaigns and Movements:

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

New Introduction by editors Robert F. Arnove and Harvey J. Graff

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.

Mike Rose (UCLA)

Mike Rose sent word that he has launched a blog on his website: view his blog. 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…."

International, Interdisciplinary Conference

Expanding Literacy Studies, the first international, interdisciplinary conference on literacy studies organized and hosted by graduate students, will be held at The Ohio State University on April 3-5, 2009.
Call for Proposals now available.
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