Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in
Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies

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The Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies faculty are passionately engaged in world-class research and development projects leading to increased knowledge about adolescent literacies in multi-lingual and multi-literate forms and contexts. We are involved in nationally and internationally recognized programs such as the National Writing Project and serve as editors for Reading Research Quarterly. Expertise and interests across the faculty include English Education, Digital Literacies, Community Literacies, and Academic Literacies. These interests lie within the overarching framework of promoting research and instructional programs that emphasize the strengths of a diverse society.

Doctoral students in Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies join a community of scholars prepared to teach and conduct scholarship in the diverse contexts which now constitute schools, universities, and other cultural institutions across the nation and around the world. We do research that values the diversity of experiences, knowledge, and literacies that people bring from their school, homes and communities. Much of this research involves the concept of "literacy" as multiplied into "literacies." We believe that it is important and necessary to understand and study adolescents as they continue to construct new literacy practices across modalities (print, visual, auditory, etc.) within school subject areas, and as part of their participation in educational (including schools), legal, economic, work, and recreational institutions.

Students are encouraged to combine their interest in Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies with other relevant interests; such as literacy education; second language learning; early and middle childhood education; language, education, and society; global and social studies education; multiculturalism and diversity; disability studies; and science and math education, among others.

Core Faculty

Mollie Blackburn, David Bloome, Caroline Clark, Alan Hirvela, Valerie Kinloch, George Newell, Adrian Rodgers, and Anna Soter

Affiliated Faculty

Ted Hall, Cindy Selfe, Amy Shuman