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2008

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...
Read more about the Conference.

Special 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.
Read more about core courses in literacy studies.

Health Literacy Makes the Master Schedule

ARTS&SCI 709 Health Literacy G 3, which was developed by Sandy Cornett (Health Sciences)...
Read more about Health Literacy.

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.
Conference Home page.

LiteracyStudies@OSU Open House

LiteracyStudies@OSU is hosting an open house to recognize the program's achievements and showcase students' efforts on April 25, 10:00-11:30 a.m. at the George Wells Knight House.

Research Position Open

Umeå University (Sweden) has opened a research position in Literacy and the History of Literacy. Visit the Umå University Web site for more information

Reading ReMix's Spring Reading Selection

Reading ReMix: "a book group without a long-term commitment" sponsored by University Libraries, has announced its spring quarter reading selection: Natalie Danford's novel Inheritance. A complimentary copy of the book will be provided to each participant courtesy of The Friends of The Ohio State University Libraries. The discussion on April 16 will be led by Literacy Studies' Academic Program Coordinator Susan Hanson. The program is open to all OSU students. To sign up, send an email to remix@osu.edu.

Andrea Lunsford Visits OSU

Andrea Lunsford (Stanford) will present "Recent Research on College Writing" on April 10. Her visit to OSU is co-sponsored by Literacy Studies.

Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Graduate Seminar Friday, February 29, 11:30 am, Knight House: Literacy in Cross-Cultural Contexts, a discussion of the work of John Duffy, and WeighIn@TheGradSem.
Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

John Duffy: The Ohio State Lecture on Literacy Studies

John Duffy: The Ohio State Lecture on Literacy Studies, Thursday, March 6, 4 p. m., Knight House.
John Duffy: The Ohio State Lecture on Literacy Studies

Language(s) and Literacy/ies

Marcia Farr, a sociolinguist in the College of Education and Human Ecology and Department of English, is organizing a panel on Languages and Literacies, April 17 at 4:00 at the George Wells Knight House. The term "literacy" has been used metaphorically in recent years to refer to realms beyond written language: "visual literacy," "health literacy," "scientific literacy," and so on. While there are some obvious reasons for this trend, it makes literacy sound like a single, uniform ability.
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Performance Literacy

I am excited about convening a second program that can continue to explore what we mean when we refer to performance and literacy.
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LiteracyStudies@OSU Launches New Website

During Fall Quarter 2007 Literacy Studies staff worked with Humanities Information Systems to develop a new home on the Web at www.literacystudies.osu.edu for the many initiatives associated with LiteracyStudies@OSU. The new site includes a News and Announcements feature, a link to information and courses associated with the new Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization (GIS), a link to the upcoming International, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, and an Archive for our many events and activities (this feature will be developed during Winter 2008).
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Recent Publication in Literacy Studies

Representing three decades of research, Literacy and Historical Development: A Reader presents some of the most important historical scholarship on literacy in Europe and the United States. The approaches, research, and conclusions reflected in this collection of fifteen essays has changed how historians and many others conceptualize literacy and represents a body of scholarship that is transforming both contemporary and historical literacy theories.
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Graduate Student Conference: A Report

Expanding Literacy Studies, An International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students, sponsored by LiteracyStudies@OSU, will take place April 3-5, 2009 at OSU. The 18-month long planning and pedagogical process began last year. Students from nine other universities are participating in the planning efforts with the OSU students, and recruiting is underway to help with the program, publicity, and site arrangements.
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Spring Course Announcements

ENGLISH 883 [anticipated cross-listing as ASC 883]
SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERACY: PROFESSIONAL LITERACY

ENG 884 [crosslisted as HIS 775]
LITERACY PAST AND PRESENT
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Introducing LiteracyStudies@OSU and Modeling Collaboration at the CCCC's

A session on Literacy Studies @ OSU will take place at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April, 2008. "Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Model for Collaboration: Literacy Studies @ Ohio State University" was organized by Harvey J. Graff, Kelly Bradbury, Michael Harker, and Kate White.
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Women and Literacy

Barbara Sicherman, an American cultural historian who specializes in women's history and was a founder of the Women's Studies Program at Trinity College, will visit OSU on November 1. Sicherman's talk is entitled "Varieties of Reading Experience: Women and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America." Her publications include Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (2003; 1st published 1984) and "Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text," in U.S. History as Women's History (1995). She co-edited Notable American Women: The Modern Period (1980) and is currently completing a book on women and literary culture in the Gilded Age. Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ICRPH Knight House.

History of the Book

History of the Book Group meets Friday, November 16: David Brewer will lead a discussion of recent research by Peter Stallybrass and James Green on Ben Franklin and printing, the implications of which extend well beyond 18th-century America. Specific chapters and articles will be available soon. For more information about this meeting or the History of Book Reading and Discussion group, contact Alan Farmer.

GIS in Literacy Studies Opens Enrollment

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies curriculum is broadly interdisciplinary, drawing from and seeking to contribute to research in the humanities, social sciences, arts, and education, but also the biological and physical sciences, health and medicine, and professional areas.

The areas in which students might concentrate their elective courses include reading and writing; language, discourse, and linguistics; history; visual studies and design; the sciences; health and medicine; technology; teaching and learning; communication; cultural studies; and space and geography.

GIS core courses and electives Winter 2008

ENGLISH 750 Introduction to Graduate Study in Literacy
WINTER 2008 , TR 0930-1118, H. Graff
ENGLISH 789 Introduction to Graduate Studies in Digital Media
WINTER 2008, MW 130-318, L. Ulman and D. Selfe
EDU T&L 925.56 Special Topic: LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND LITERACY: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
WINTER 2008, W 700-918P, M. Farr
EDU T&L 925.56 Special Topic: LANGUAGE USE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
WINTER 2008, W 700-918P, E. Richardson
Read More About GIS core courses and electives Winter 2008

Disciplined Interdisciplinarity

Graduate students from more than twenty departmental disciplines continue to meet monthly as the Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies. Students interested in literacy from virtually any perspective are encouraged to attend these informal seminars as a way to explore the possibilities and establish contact with their peers in other fields. Lunch is provided. For more information, contact Kate White at white.1142@osu.edu.

Inaugural Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies

This March will inaugurate of The Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies with a lecture by John Duffy, Associate Professor, Department of English and the Francis O'Malley Director of the University Writing Program at Notre Dame.

The goal of this annual lecture series is to make OSU the place for both well-established and younger scholars to preview major studies and present significant new works. John Duffy’s lecture on March 6 will focus on his work with Hmong in U.S. and Asia.
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Courses that may be of interest to students Interested in literacy

ART EDU 795J Arts Participation, Cultural Literacy, Audience Development
EDU T&L 873: Popular Culture and the teaching of English,
EDU T&L 913: RESEARCH AND THEORY IN WRITTEN COMPOSITION
ENG 531 Restoration Literature