I support this petition.

I support this forum as well.

Joshua Begley, Full Sail University

Please add my name to the petition.

John McClain, College of the Desert, UC Berkeley

I also strongly support a literacy studies forum.

~ Peter R Jacoby, San Diego Mesa College

I strongly support a literacy studies forum.

Marylou Gramm, University of Pittsburgh

I support this.

H. Hellwig
Idaho State University

I certainly am in favor of a Literacy Studies forum.

Bert Barry

Saint Louis University

This is a great idea.  I support this forum.

Mary Parish, Duquesne University

I support such a forum. Great idea.

Jean Ferguson Carr, University of Pittsburgh

A very important topic–I support the forum very strongly.

Great.   I support this also.

Excellent! Thank you for letting us know.

Hey Cheryl! Yes, agreed. In this case, more is more!

I will. Grace is in our group, of course, and she brings good students to our discussion. I will pass on your greetings :).

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“At Portland State University,…”

OMG,  Grace Dillon, one of the essayists in our collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars, teaches at your school.

You get old enough (let’s just say a couple years beyond 60) and you start to *know everybody*!  Tell Grace I said “Hi” and “Milli gwetch”–that “thanks” in Anishinaabe. -Glo

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I don’t know as much about Latin American fantastic literature as I’d like, so I’m very interested in what you had to say, Silvia. In general, it always strikes me as odd how conservative academics can be. And in a broader sense, the whole concept of “legitimate” is troublesome because of the power issues underlying who decides what is and is not,…[Read more]

I wish the United States were better at carrying translated editions of works. This sounds like a fascinating anthology. I would love to read it!

I will agree with Josh. However, for Latin America, there is an additional twist. The raise of the fantastic since the mid 1940s until it became the paramount literary “authentic” (for lack of better, quick words) literary form, displaced any other literary form from the center of the cultural field. Debates between realist and fantastic…[Read more]