Literacies, Learning, and the Body

Grace Enriquez is Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Division, Lesley University, USA. Elisabeth Johnson is Associate Professor, Literacy, St. Edward's University in Austin, TX, USA. Stavroula Kontovourki is Lecturer, Literacy and Language Arts Education, University of Cyprus. Christine A. Mallozzi is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education, University of Kentucky, USA.

Preface

Part One: Why Bodies Matter in Literacy Research








Introduction: Assembling Research on Literacies and the Body - Elisabeth Johnson and Stavroula Kontovourki



Inscription, Erasure, Embodiment: Literacy Research and Bodies of Knowledge - Marjorie Siegel
Part Two: Disciplined Literacies, Disciplined Bodies




Reader Response and Embodied Performance: Body-Poems as Performative Response and Performativity - Grace Enriquez



Disciplined within a Discipline: English Teachers are Bound to Be Human Bodies - Christine A. Mallozzi
Part Three: Living Literacies, Feeling Bodies




When the Body Acquires Pedagogy and it Hurts: Discursive Practices and Material Affects of Round Robin Reading - Stephanie Jones



Shrinking In, Spilling Out, and Living Through: Affective Energy as Multimodal Literacies - Jaye Johnson Thiel



Literacy, Emotion, and the Teaching/Learning Body - Cynthia Lewis and Anne Crampton



Racialized Bodies as Lived Experiences: How Phenomenology Might Offer Literacy Studies a New Perspective on the Body - Hilary E. Hughes



Moving Off-Screen: Pathways for Understanding an Adolescent’s Embodied Experience of New Media Making - Christian Ehret
Part Four: Bodies as Social Texts




Race and Rag Dolls: Critically Engaging the Embodiment of Diversity in Lalaloopsy Transmedia - Karen E. Wohlwend and Ted Hall



Traditionally Marginalized Bodies Making Space Through Embodied Literacy Performances - Mollie V. Blackburn



Drawing Teachers in a Language Arts Methods Course: Images of Teachers, Literacy, & Pedagogy - Anne Swenson Ticknor



"What Kind of Woman are You?": Performing Decency and Motherhood Behind Bars - Rachel Oppenheim
Part Five: Pervasive Bodies, Indeterminate Literacies




Bodies With and Without Organs: Literacies of a True Crime Sex and Violence Drama - A. Jonathan Eakle



Dead-lines: Teachers’ Bureaucratic Habitus and Disciplinary Writing in Three South African Schools - Kerryn Dixon and Jacqui Dornbrack



Resisting Embodiment: Questions within Education and a Street-Youth Performance - Amanda C. Wager and Mia Perry
Part Six: Conclusion




On Literacies, Learning, and the Body: Theorizing, Researching, and Imagining Pedagogies – Elisabeth Johnson and Grace Enriquez