Community Literacy News
New CLJ Book & New Media Review Editor |
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"These essays will serve the purpose of collecting the sources and putting them in conversation with one another in order to appreciate where we have been as a field of study and where we will go." If you are interested in writing one of these essays -- or submitting book & media reviews -- please contact Jennifer at jdewinter@wpi.edu. |
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National Faith, Justice, and Civic Learning Conference |
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"This conference advances the understanding that our teaching, learning, scholarship, and service are enriched when we integrate the often fragmented dimensions of our institutions and greater society." Visit the conference site. |
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The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives |
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 The Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) encourages the use of the archives by community groups and programs. The DALN is a publicly available archive of literacy narratives in a variety of formats -- print, video, audio -- that together provide a historical record of the literacy practices and values of contributors, as those practices and values change. The DALN invites people of all ages, races, communities, backgrounds, and interests to contribute stories about how they learned to read, write, and compose meaning and how they continue to do so. We welcome all kinds of texts, both formal and informal: diaries, blogs, poetry, music and musical lyrics, fan zines, school papers, videos, sermons, gaming profiles, speeches, chatroom exchanges, text messages, letters, stories, photographs, etc. We also invite contributors to provide samples of their own writing (papers, letters, zines, speeches, etc.) and compositions (music, photographs, videos, sound recordings, etc.). Visit the (DALN) site to learn more about using this valuable resource. |
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Issue 3.2 Published |
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Issue 3.2 has been published in our Online Journal System. Visitors can review the Table of Contents and abstracts, and subscribers may download and read articles via PDF.
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Visualizing 3.2 |
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Wordle.net creates “word clouds” based on text that you enter. Here's the result of entering all of the text from all of the articles in the upcoming CLJ 3.2:  |
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Cover Us |
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The Community Literacy Journal invites your photo art for future covers. We especially would like to feature cover photos that evoke diverse communities, the complexities of communities, the visuals, text, and rhetoric of communities, and the importance of communities. Submission requirements:
We offer five complimentary copies of the journal and publish your Artist's Statement; your copyright remains with you. Recent covers. |
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Webb-Sunderhaus's "A Family Affair" Anthologized |
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Webb-Sunderhaus's article was part of a special issue on Appalachian Literacies, edited by Katherine Vande Brake and Kimberley Holloway. Congratulations, Sara! |
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CLJ Awarded Best New Journal at MLA Conference |
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The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) awarded the CLJ the Best New Journal Award at MLA Conference in December in San Francisco. The journal is published collaboratively between Michigan Technological University's Department of Humanities and the University of Arizona's Department of English. In her remarks at the awards ceremony, Joycelyn Moody, Vice President, Council of Editors of Learned Journals and Editor of African American Review noted that judges "expressed admiration for the far reaching scope and visually pleasing design of Community Literacy Journal as well as its democratic approach to literacy studies. About its focus on the important but under-rated aspect of literacy studies, the judges found that Community Literacy Journal makes an original contribution using a compelling presentation." Finally, the judges remarked CLJ’s fearless reach beyond “the usual boundaries of academia to topics of interest out in the wider world.” |
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OJS: Online Submissions and Online Content |
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| The Community Literacy Journal begins its integration to Open Journal Systems (OJS) this week. Authors wishing to submit articles or book reviews can begin that process by visiting the CLJ OJS. Register there and upload your work there. You'll receive confirmation, and we'll receive your manuscript. In the near future, paid subscribers will be able to access all journal content online as well. | |
Documentary: agua miel: secrets of the agave |
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agua miel: secrets of the agave documents women’s creative collaborations along the Mexico/U.S. border to resist globalization’s inequities and injustices – material, ecologic, and social. Rather than using stereotypes and deficit theories of Mexican and Mexican-origin households, this documentary film will demonstrate that these households are rich resources for learning. It’s a film about the space between two nations – a “third-space” that remains invisible to much of the world. It reclaims the funds of knowledge that inform this space, its peoples, and their practices of sustainability.  |
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Jennifer deWinter, Assistant Professor and Co-Director Professional Writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, joins us as Book & New Media Review Editor. Among Jennifer's goals for the Book & New Media Review section: " I will be instituting a "Keywords" essay in the book review section. Currently, there is more literature available than we are able to review in a semi-annual publication. As such, we at the journal have decided to include a thematic synthesis essay organized under key themes in the field of community literacy: community literacy (obviously), methodology, service learning, international service, youth programs, and so forth.
Prints should be no larger than 9.5"x 12.5"
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