Conference Keynotes | Academic Articles | Academic Book Reviews | CYAL Book Reviews | Poetry, Fiction, and Visual Arts
The Hope We Wish To See by Aiysha Sinclair
Editor’s Introduction: Transformation Through Radical Support
By Merida Lang, Principal Editor
Conference Keynotes
Watch Dr. Battachary’s Welcome Speech, You Must Make the Injustice Visible
Watch Dr. Sealey-Ruiz’s keynote address, Enacting Critical Love: An “Archaeology of Self” Approach Towards Anti-Racism in the Academy and Beyond
Racial Literacy Poetics for the Academy & Beyond
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Watch Dr. Yang’s keynote address, Literacy for Solidarity: Or, How to Honor Ancestors Not Our Own
K. Wayne Yang
Academic Articles
Research Reports
Alexandra Panos and James Damico
“These Are Normal People”: White High School Students’ Responses to Interracial Literary Fiction
Jessie Findora and Thomas C. Hammond
Disciplinary Literacy: Successes and Challenges of Professional Development
Emily Howell, Wendy Barlow, and Jeanne Dyches
Collage Praxis: What Collage Can Teach Us about Teaching and Knowledge Generation
Jessica Whitelaw
Rick Marlatt and Meghan E. Barnes
Voices from the Field
What Can Translation Do? Language, Power, and Identity in an Elementary Classroom
Eric Fishman
Chasing New Worlds: Stories of Roleplaying in Classroom Spaces
Karis Jones, Scott Storm, Jennifer Castillo, and Sasha Karbachinskiy
Academic Book Reviews
The academic book reviews in this issue cover a range of topics relevant to the field of language and literacy education. Reviewers with diverse backgrounds provide summaries and critiques of books focusing on curriculum, instruction, and social equity.
Dan Jin, Academic Book Review Editor, jolle.bookrev@gmail.com
Review of De/constructing Literacies: Considerations for Engagement
Jason D. DeHart, Appalachian State University, Boon, NC
Review of Read, Write, Inquire: Disciplinary Literacy in Grades 6-12
Madison Gannon, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Review of Narratives of Hope and Grief in Higher Education
Allyson Pitzel, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Review of Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language in Education
Sae saem Yoon, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Review of Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom: Critical Approaches for Critical Educators
Caleb Chandler, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Children & Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews
The Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE) reviews recently published or soon-to-be-published Children’s and Young Adult Literature (CYAL). At JoLLE, we value students’ voices and creativity in reflecting their understanding and evaluation of the literature that is written for them.
The children and young adult book reviews in this issue welcome the critiques of adult and student reviewers. We are pleased to offer reflections from parents, teachers, and young children from around the globe. We hope these reviews will encourage our readers to add these titles to their libraries while continuing to embrace the unique joy and adventures that can be experienced through books.
We thank the students, teachers, and caregivers who have participated in our Children and Young Adult Literature book reviews. We hope to see more reviews from children and adults around the globe.
Judith C. Johnson, CYAL Book Review Editor, jolle.cyal@gmail.com
Review of Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps into Green Energy
Daniel Foster, Student Reviewer
Angie Foster, Adult/Educator Reviewer
Review of The Liars of Mariposa Island
Rhonda Pawlik, Adult/Educator Reviewer
Review of It’s Ok to be a Unicorn
3-yr-old and 6-yr-old siblings, Student Reviewer
Janet Key, Adult/Educator Reviewer
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts
In the Spring 2021 issue of JoLLE, we are proud to present a Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts section that shares contextual experiences of visceral, instinctive, intellectual, evoked and responsive enactments of language and literacy. Collectively, these artistic renderings prompt considerations for the engagement of language, literacy, teaching, and learning in diverse contexts.
Our visual artists and poets, who are also researchers, educators, and professional artists, inform and expand our conceptions of language and literacy through their varied modes of representation. The art/research works in this issue exemplify the dynamic nature of meaning making and its socio-cultural influences. The voices presented in each work invite us to honor the multimodality of language and literacy in the classroom and throughout education.
LaTasha Hutcherson Price, Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts Editor, jolle.art.literature@gmail.com
Poetry
Titles: “Repair Narratives Matter,” “On Translanguaging,” & “Incarceration Nation”
Author: Joy Valentine
Institution: The University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: “Speak Proper English,” “In a Nut Shell” & “Saying No”
Author: Mellissa Gyimah-Concepcion
Institution: Judson University
Visual Arts
Title: “Girl with Red” & “Mushroom”
Author: Aiysha Sinclair
Title: “Underpainting Quilt” & “On Memory”
Author: Amanda Smith
Institution: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Author: Kerry Alexander
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Title: “Languages Are Connections”
Author: Saurabh Anand
Institutions: University of Georgia
Principal Editor
Merida Lang
Conference Co-Chairs
Yixuan Wang & Shuang Fu
Academic Book Review Editor
Dan Jin
Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts Editor
LaTasha Hutcherson Price
Communications Editor
Saurabh Anand
Managing Editor
Bhairvi M. Trivedi
Production Editor
Jennifer Ervin
CYAL Book Review Co-Editors
Judith C. Johnson & Julie M. Carbaugh
Scholars Speak Out Editor
Tamara Moten
Digital Content Editor
Sarah K. Stice
Faculty Advisor
Usree Battacharya