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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.
Conference Home page.

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