Title(s): Assistant Professor, Coordinator of English Education Program, Co-Director of National Writing Project at Rutgers University

Education: Ph.D., King’s College London, England

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Research interests:

Transformations in our communicational landscape have changed the way we read and we write. Within literacy education, such areas of research as critical literacy, New Literacy Studies, multiliteracies, and multimodal literacy have fostered a greater awareness and understanding of the implications of these transformations on literacy learning and teaching. Working within these approaches to literacy education, I examine how children and adolescents make meaning in a variety of modes at school, at home, and out in the community. In my work, I look at the texts children, youth, and adults create and read to illustrate how shifts in our communicational landscape impact on teaching, learning, and curriculum. Identity and the role of identity feature prominently in such work and how texts bear traces of identity which has implications for theory, policy, and practice.

Recent publications:

Grants and Funded Research

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant with Sue Nichols, Helen Nixon, and Jennifer Rowsell. Parents' Circulation of Knowledge about Literacy Development. 3-year funded project.

Rutgers Research Council Grant (2006). Parents' Circulation of Knowledge about Literacy Development of Preschoolers

Rutgers Research Council Grant (2007). Production Logic: A Pedagogy of Innovation (with Mary P. Sheridan Rabideau, University of Wyoming).

Books Authored / Co-Authored:

Rowsell, J. (2006). Family Literacy Experiences: Creating Reading and Writing Opportunities That Support Learning. Markham: Pembroke Publishers.

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J.(Eds.) (2006). Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J. (2005). Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. London: Paul Chapman Publishers.

Rowsell, J. (2005). Frame by Frame. Part of a Language Series, Learning Through Literacy, David Booth, Jack Booth & Judith Greene (Eds.) Toronto: Nelson Publishing.

Rowsell, J. (2005). Frame by Frame Teacher’s Guide. Part of a Language Series, Learning Through Literacy, David Booth, Jack Booth & Judith Greene (Eds.) Toronto: Nelson Publishing.

Booth, D. and Rowsell, J. (2002). The Literacy Principal: Supporting, Leading, and Assessing Reading and Writing Programs. Markham: Pembroke Publishers.

Chapters in Books:

Street, B., Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J (2008). "Multimodality and New Literacy Studies." In The Handbook on Multimodality. Edited by Carey Jewitt. London: Routledge.

McLean, C, Boling,E., & Rowsell, J. (2008). Engaging Diverse Students in Multiple Literacies In and Out of School. Handbook of Research on Literacy Instruction: Issues of Diversity, Policy, and Equity. Edited by L. Morrow, R. Rueda, and D. Lapp. New York: Guilford Publishing.

Rowsell, J. (2007). “Improvising on Artistic Habitus: Sedimenting identity into art.” In Allan Luke & Jim Albright (Eds.), Literacy and Bourdieu. New Jersey: Erlbaum Publishing.

Burke, A. & Rowsell, J. (2007). "Screen Pedagogy: Putting the Screen into Literacy Teaching."  In T. Messenheimer & C. Clarke's Perceptions of Literacy. London: Pied Piper.

Rowsell, J. (2005). “There is No Place Like Home: A teacher perspective on literacies across educational contexts.” In Brian Street (Ed.) Literacies Across Educational Contexts. Philadelphia: Caslon Publishing Inc.

Rowsell, J. (2003). “About Media in Education.” In D. Booth & M. Hachiya (Eds.) The Arts Go to School. Markham: Pembroke Publishers.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

Burke, A. & Rowsell, J. (2007). Assessing Multimodal Practice. E-Learning Special Edition. Fall 2007

Rowsell, J., Sztainbok, V. & Blaney, J. (2007). 'Losing Strangeness: Using Culture to Mediate ESL Teaching. Language, Culture, and Curriculum. Volume 20, Number 2.

Rowsell, J. & Pahl, K. (2007). Sedimented identities in texts: Instances of practice. Reading Research Quarterly. Volume 42, Issue 3.

Beck, C., Kosnik, C., & Rowsell, J. (2007). "Preparation for the First Year of Teaching: Beginning Teachers' Views about Their Needs."  The New Educator. Volume 3, Issue, 1.

Burke, A. & Rowsell, J. (2006). “From Screen to Print: Publishing Multiliteracies Pedagogy.” The International Journal of Learning. Victoria, AU: Common Ground Publishers.

Rowsell, J. (2003). “Identities in Progress: Towards a Notion of Modified Habitus.” Ways of Knowing, Vol. 1, No.1. pp. 3-15

Rowsell, J. (2003). “ Semiotic Consciousness in Educational Textbooks.” International Journal of Applied Semiotics. Volume 4, No. 2. pp. 43 – 63.

Rowsell, J. (2003). “The Production-Reception Continuum: Activating publishing practices during literacy events.” Changing English, Volume 10, January 2003, pp. 59-71.

Editor of Journal

Rowsell, J. & Booth, D (2005). Literacy Revisited …. Orbit, Vol. 36. October, 2005.