Hello all,

I’m writing as project manager for MLA Commons. This group is a duplicate of the officially maintained RCWS Literacy Studies group (as this message from five years ago noted:  https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rcws-literacy-studies/forum/topic/official-literacy-studies-group-open/).

I’m proposing that this group be retired. This group…[Read more]

Hello! Just wanted to say that I am honored to be representing Literacy Studies at this year’s Delegate Assembly on Saturday Jan. 11. If anyone has any questions, let me know. If you are attending MLA–have a great conference!

Hi everyone,

Please head on over to the official MLA Commons site our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/

I’ll keep posting here every once in awhile until I see you all there!

Suzanne

We invite paper proposals for the first RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored panel at MLA 2016.

We welcome discussions of practices and processes of literacies situated in a wide range of political, social, economic, linguistic, educational, and cultural contexts. Please submit a 300-word abstract by March 15 to Suzanne Blum Malley (…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

My apologies for any confusion or inconvenience, but MLA notified me today that our official Literacy Studies group is up and running on MLA commons. We will continue our discussions there. Please join the group at:
http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/
Thanks so much.

The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum was approved in November 2014. If you’d like to take a look at the proposal document, it is posted in the “Files” section of this site.

As a new forum, we are able to put out a CFP for a Literacy Studies sponsored panel at MLA 2016 and we will hold elections this year for a 5th executive committee member. As those…[Read more]