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Session Type: Structured Poster Session
Thirteen scholars from five different U.S. universities meet in this session to explore how students from late elementary age through adulthood engage with literature in transformative, justice-oriented ways. Posters in the form of multimodal narratives address significant issues in of our post-truth age, such as racism, sexual violence, terrorism, digitally-mediated environments, and test-driven classrooms. Each poster proposes provisional answers to these questions: 1) What justice-oriented ways of knowing/becoming/doing does literary engagement produce? 2) How does literary fiction figure into truth-telling in a post-truth era? 3) How is literature used to recognize, activate, and/or disrupt various regimes of truth?
1. "Now We Have to Somehow Un-Fuck Everybody": The Hate U Give, Preservice English Teachers, and Activism in the Post-Truth Age - Shelly Melchior, University of Alabama
2. Fostering Critical Social Consciousness Through "Text-to-Software" Connections in Dystopian Literature - Mark A. Sulzer, University of Cincinnati
3. Using Young Adult Literature to Facilitate Conversations About Sexual Violence: Transformative Action in the High School Classroom - Victoria Dickman-Burnett, University of Cincinnati
4. Adolescent Literature, Preservice English Teachers, and Badiou's "Procedures of Truth" - Briana Kidd, University of Alabama; Aaron Tinker, University of Alabama
5. Activating Empathetic and Justice-Oriented Ways of Knowing: Teachers' and Students' Arts-Based Responses to Towers Falling - James S. Chisholm, University of Louisville; Kathryn F. Whitmore, University of Louisville
6. Mapping Lines of Possibility in Test-Driven Times: Moments of Destabilization With To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, and Selected Poetry - Anne Murray, University of Alabama
7. Racial Literacy in Our Post-Truth Age: Cultivating Fugivity and Collective Response-ability Through Literature and Collage - Karen Spector, The University of Alabama; Patricia Elmore, The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa