RU Writing?

This week, Morgan, Matt, and Connor invite Dr. Jason Luther to discuss the question, is print dead? Dr. Luther teaches Self Publishing; Methods of Analysis and Evaluating Writing; Writing, Research, and Technology; and Introduction to Writing Arts. His research focuses on DIY culture, publishing, publics, and sound writing. Jason has presented at several national conferences and has recently co-edited both a special issue of Community Literacy Journal and the 2017 edition of The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition. His work and expertise within both digital and print mediums made him a great guest to have for this episode. We hope you enjoy! 

This week, Connor, Morgan, and Matt discuss the world of multimodality! Is there such a thing as a "monomodal" text? How does the Rowan Writing Arts Department teach multimodality? Listen in to find out! 

Here are the resources we used to frame our discussion:

Why We Should Study Multimodal Language

All Writing is Multimodal

Graphic Novels and Multimodal Literacy: A High School Study with American Born Chinese

Earlier this semester, Connor Buckmaster got a chance to talk with Heather Lanier, a new faculty member here in the Rowan Writing Arts Department. Dr. Lanier is the author of Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach For America, and two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Heart-Shaped Bed in Hiroshima (Standing Rock, 2015), and The Story You Tell Yourself (Kent State U, 2012), winner of the Wick Poetry Open Chapbook Competition. Her work has been noted in The Best American Essays Series and The Pushcart Anthology Series. She has published poems and essays in many places, including Salon, The Sun, Vela Magazine, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and more. She has a forthcoming book about raising her daughter with a rare chromosomal syndrome, set to be released in the summer of 2020. 

Connor, Morgan, and Matt dive into the praise and doubts surrounding graphic novels in academia as they try to answer the big question: are graphic novels literature?