Pluriversal Scholarship: An Intergenerational Discussion of Writing and Literacies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Through a framework of pluriversal literacies and vulnerability (Perry 2020), the Graduate Student Board of the Writing & Literacies SIG will facilitate an intergenerational discussion to examine our collective participation in platforms for accessible scholarship and how these have shifted during this global pandemic and a new wave of activism in service of racial justice. How do we engage in literacies research in responsible ways and make sense of our role as scholars amid the many other relationalities we take up? This session will engage participants in critiquing and broadening our conception of public scholarship and will include options for participation like live Twitter chats backchannel and breakout rooms supporting participant contributions to SIG digital artifacts and virtual networking.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Rae Leah Oviatt, Eastern Michigan University

Papers

• Affect, Assemblages, and Literacies in Public Scholarship - Jana Kirsten Boschee, University of Lethbridge

• Networks of Public Scholarship in Digital Spaces - Rae Leah Oviatt, Eastern Michigan University; Dianne wellington, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Working Against Hierarchical Curation and Working Toward Community-Based Academic Dialogues - Karis Michelle Jones, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; April Camping, Arizona State University; Gemma Cooper-Novack, Syracuse University; Alexander Power Corbitt, Boston College; Jessica L Lough, West Virginia University

Discussant

• Jamila Lyiscott, University of Massachusetts – Amherst