Writing & Literacies On Air

In this episode of Inquiring Minds we are joined by Drs. Julianna Lopez Kershen, Marek Oziewicz, and Lara Saguisag. This episode's special guests discuss addressing climate literacies and climate justice through intersectional lenses. Check out this episode's companion reading list for literature, resources, and articles referenced during the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QE4shjlsJIiuR5Xio3ZKk0687CRC6oJrumYVbN2fZL0/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode of Inquiring Minds, we are joined by Drs. Stephanie Abraham, Sarah Donovan, Victoria Gill & Darius Phelps. This episodes special guests discuss poetry and its application to the literacies field.

In this episode of Inquiring Minds, we are joined by Drs. Trevor Boffone, Carmen Medina, Danielle Rosvally, Ankhi Thakurta, and Shirin Vossoughi. This episodes special guests discuss multimodal authoring practices in their research and teaching lives. Note: You may notice that Dr. Vossoughi's voice is absent in the latter part of the episode. Dr. Vossoughi had an emergency and needed to leave early.

On this episode of Inquiring Minds, AERA award-winning scholars Dr. Stephanie Toliver, Dr. Gerald Campano, Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly, and Maggie McConnaha discuss their writing practices and scholarly journeys.

In this Inquiring Minds episode, Indigenous language and literacy leaders Drs. Natalie Martinez, Marissa Aki'Nene Muñoz, and Debbie Reese, along with doctoral student Marial Quezada, share insights on Indigenous literacies with listeners.

This episode includes the panelists discussing translanguaging across literacies.

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Check out our latest @writinglit Inquiring Minds Podcast episode on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Writing Processes, where literacy scholars, Dr. Sarah Burriss, Dr. Christian Ehret, Dr. Brad Robinson, and Dr. Raúl A. Mora discuss contemporary wonderings with the proliferation of A.I. tools for writing. Reading & Research Quarterly Call for Submissions: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/resource-documents/rrq-special-issue-on-ai-call-for-abstracts.pdf?sfvrsn=d1c31bb2_2 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOebwxZQW8A

Check out our latest @writinglit Inquiring Minds Podcast episode on Written Literacies and Joy inspired by the work of Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, where our guests Dr. Sakeena Everett, Dr. Tyana Vasquez-Smith, Barrett Rosser and Kirsten Burke Smith share their work and how these literacies are being used in practice. [Playlist Inspired by the Group: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/460LCn48ifQjJw4a5JToOq?si=fc32603a22bd4129]

Check out our latest @writinglit Inquiring Minds Podcast episode on informational literacies, where our guests Lynne Watanabe Kganetso, Meagan E. Walsh, & Laura Kelly share their work and how these literacies are being used in practice.

In this Inquiring Minds podcast episode we have literacy scholars: Dr. Amy Hutchison, Dr. Antero Garcia, Dr. Brady Nash, and Rabani Garg (PhD Student) share their thoughts, considerations, and new context to think about digital literacies.

In this AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Podcast episode, Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly, Tairan Qiu, and Dr. Tasha Austin share their perspectives, challenges, and considerations regarding contested language. This episode is produced and edited by the Graduate Student Board Podcast team members and was hosted by Dr. Karis Jones.

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Inquiring Minds"! In advance of "I Love to Write Day" observed every November 15th, we talk with two exemplary Writing Project site directors, Dr. Tonya B. Perry and Dr. Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell. Hosted by AERA Writing & Literacy SIG Graduate Student Board Member, Kyley Pulphus.

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Inquiring Minds". This episode we talk with Chris Rogers, Dr. Leigh Patel, and Dr. Tasha Austin about their writing process as a scholar. Hosted by Dr. Anna Smith and supported by AERA Writing & Literacy SIG Graduate Student Board Members: Sarah Jerasa and Lesly Noel.

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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/

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

"Visit tinyurl.com/y4uwutxj to upload your research video!" 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)

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!

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!

Titled “Common Strands: Multimodality, Literacy, and International Perspectives,” this podcast surveys Dr. Jennifer Rowsell’s engagement with New Literacy Studies as a graduate student, the rise of multimodality in the field of literacy studies, and the current landscape of UK and Canadian literacy research. Dr. Rowsell is professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University in St. Catherine’s Ontario. Dr. Rowsell is the 2016 recipient of the Writing & Literacies SIG’s Steve Witte Award for Lifetime Achievement. Named for Stephen P. Witte, leading scholar of writing theory and research and a founding editor of the journal Written Communication, the Steve Witte Award is presented to a senior scholar who has made significant contributions to research in the area of writing and literacies through a particular academic work or body of work that has contributed significantly to scholarship in the area of writing and literacies. Dr. Rowsell scholarship examining contemporary literacies across media, modes, and genres has contributed to expanding visions of what literacy education and pedagogy can be. Her work international contributions are many. Dr. Rowsell has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 18 books on an array of topics from new ways of framing literacy studies such asArtifactual Literacies: Every Object Tells A Story with Kate Pahl and Working with Multimodality: Literacy in Digital Age. She has pushed the field forward in volumes that address methodology in literacy research such as Resourcing Early Learners: New Networks, New Actors with Sue Nichols, Helen Nixon, and Sophia Rainbird and Learning and Literacy over Time: Longitudinal Perspectives with Julian Sefton-Green. She has also co-edited The Handbook of Literacy Studies with Kate Pahl which provides a renewed sense of the field of literacy studies and future directions in literacy research and theory. This Oral Histories Series is brought to you by the SIG Historian, Dr. Robert LeBlanc, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, and the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team, led by Dr. Anna Smith, Assistant Professor at Illinois State University. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Vaughn Watson, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University. More of this Dr. Watson’s music is available at: @heteroglossic

Titled “Expanding Context: Literacy, Politics, and Civil Rights,” this podcast surveys the origins and expansions of the Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group from the perspective of one of its former presidents, Dr. Stuart Greene, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. We discuss the serendipitous influences of SIG members in his scholarship in the field of writing, his commitment to creating space for differing voices in his time as president and now, and the role he envisions for critical community research and literacies as a civil right as the field moves forward. This Oral Histories Series is brought to you by the SIG Historian, Dr. Robert LeBlanc, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, and the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team, led by Dr. Anna Smith, Assistant Professor at Illinois State University. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Vaughn Watson, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University. More of this Dr. Watson’s music is available at: https://soundcloud.com/heteroglossic

Titled “Early Days: The Emergence of Writing as a Distinct Focus”, this podcast surveys the origins of the Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group from the perspective of one of its early members, Dr. George Newell. Dr. Newell is professor of Adolescent, Post-Secondary and Community Literacies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Ohio State University, and together we discuss the emergence of research and focus on writing as a unique subject of inquiry at the AERA, as well as future directions for writing research. Brought to you by the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team with special thanks to SIG Historian Dr. Robert LeBlanc, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Vaughn Watson, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University. His series is inspired by Bakhtin’s “notion of 'social heteroglossia’ across which utterances carry forward complementary and contradictory, not fixed, meanings of topics at hand. Tracing echoes attends to, rather than disregards, the multiplicity of voices, intentions and meanings across echoes" (Watson & Marciano, 2015, p. 42). More of this Heteroglossic series available at: https://soundcloud.com/heteroglossic More on Dr. Watson’s scholarly work at: https://michiganstate.academia.edu/VaughnWatson Watson, V. W. M., & Marciano, J. E. (2015). Examining a social-participatory youth co-researcher methodology: A cross-case analysis extending possibilities of literacy and research. Literacy, 49(1), pp. 37-44.

Our second podcast, “Writing Towards Diverse Democracies through Public Scholarship” surveys writing and literacies scholarship as it pertains to public scholarship, engagement, and community partnerships. Dialoguing with community collaborators, we had the opportunity to learn from two groups doing community-based work. Our first team included Dr. Valerie Kinloch (Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning and the Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University) and Ms. Rhonda Johnson (former president of the Columbus Education Association and currently the Education Director for the City of Columbus and the Mayor’s Office). The second team we had the opportunity to dialogue with was comprised of Dr. Joanne Larson (Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum Program at the University of Rochester) and Daniel Hart (literacy specialist and community partner at East High School). Brought to you by the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team with special thanks to Jon Wargo, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University. Theme music in this episode taken from #hearmyhome (http://hearmyhome.matrix.msu.edu/).

This podcast surveys the emergence of the writing and literacies special interest group and asks the questions: “Why writing?" and "Why now?” Featuring some of the Writing and Literacies SIG's founding members: Dr. Sarah W Freedman Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley and Dr. Glynda Hull, the Elizabeth H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Chair in Undergraduate Education at UC-Berkeley, we engage in dialogue concerning the “what’s next” question for the SIG as the AERA annual meeting reaches its centennial. Brought to you by the AERA Writing and Literacies SIG Communication Team with special thanks to Jon Wargo, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University. Theme music in this episode composed and performed by SIG member Dr. Matthew Hall, Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy, The College of New Jersey.