I hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:

491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual F…[Read more]

I hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:

491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual Foodways W…[Read more]

The frame of literacy studies, a subject of complex research across many disciplines, has long offered Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) both a focus of research and a methodological foundation. As such, RCWS scholars have contributed, and continue to contribute, significantly to broadening the field of inquiry related to…[Read more]

The Literacy Studies Forum Executive Committee members will be putting together a call for papers for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia over the course of the next couple of weeks. Please use this discussion thread to suggest any ideas you have framing the CFP (keeping in mind that we only have 35 words).

Thank you to all of our MLA 2016 panelists for two excellent RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions. I hope that we can build a repository of materials from this year’s (and future) panels so that we can continue and extend conversations beyond the conference itself.

There are two ways to upload materials to the forum and two places for forum members to…[Read more]

Congratulations to Peggy Otto on her election to the RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee! We welcome your participation in planning for the next several MLA Literacy Studies sponsored sessions and in building an active literacy studies online exchange in the MLA forum over the next several years.

The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Executive…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

We are very pleased to announce the two panels that the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2016. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there:
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m.
Transnational and Historical Perspectives: Literacy Studies’ Inaugural Forum Session
Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Col…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Please head on over to the official MLA Commons site our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/literacy-studies/

I’ll keep posting here every once in awhile until I see you all there!

Suzanne

We invite paper proposals for the first RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored panel at MLA 2016.

We welcome discussions of practices and processes of literacies situated in a wide range of political, social, economic, linguistic, educational, and cultural contexts. Please submit a 300-word abstract by March 15 to Suzanne Blum Malley (…[Read more]

We invite paper proposals for the first RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored panel at MLA 2016.

We welcome discussions of practices and processes of literacies situated in a wide range of political, social, economic, linguistic, educational, and cultural contexts. Please submit a 300-word abstract by March 15 to Suzanne Blum Malley (…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

My apologies for any confusion or inconvenience, but MLA notified me today that our official Literacy Studies group is up and running on MLA commons. We will continue our discussions there. Please join the group at:
http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/literacy-studies/
Thanks so much.