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JoLLE January Newsletter

Conference is Coming!

JoLLE JanuaryNewsletterConference is Coming!

Out of the Box and Into the Margins with JoLLE

The JoLLE Winter Conference is coming up NEXT WEEK--Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4, 2017. The theme is "Out of the Box and Into the Margins." You don't want to miss the Friday workshops, which are included with your registration; they are filling up quickly, so go here to register and sign up as soon as possible. Friday night's community event features Eric Velasquez, a children's book author and illustrator, and will be held at Stan Mullins' art studio. Our keynote speaker for Saturday's conference is Nick Sousanis, author of Unflattening.


This year’s conference features educators and students who take risks, sometimes subversively, to employ and widen the spaces between the essentializing forces that we all face. We invite artists, gamers, remixers, techies, and fandoms. We invite all who experiment with the intertwining of identities and all who refuse to be labeled to share and explore how to exert agency within highly constrained contexts--or, in other words, how to move out of the box and into the margins.

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Scholars Speak Out--Robert Petrone & Melissa Horner

In Robert Petrone and Melissa Horner's Scholars Speak Out piece for this month, they focus on how we, as educators, researchers, students, activists, and allies contribute daily to ecological microagressions that may, in fact, hurt our work towards social justice. By referencing current events and trends in social media, both authors argue for more self-reflection (and possibly regulation) when it comes to researching and representing our research in academia. According to Petrone and Horner, "In the process of fighting for social justice we managed to contribute to quite a bit of injustice."
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This piece offers a call-to-action to educators and researchers to consider the ways in which we contribute to various injustices and oppressions in our daily lives, pushing us to reflect on our representation of "social justice" in literacy education and research.


To read more of Petrone and Horner's SSO, click here.

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Call for Manuscripts--JoLLE 2017 Spring Issue

This will be a special themed issue focusing on the JoLLE Winter 2017 conference 's theme: “Out of the Box and Into the Margins.” This issue will feature manuscripts about language and literacy students, educators, and researchers who take risks, sometimes subversively, to employ and widen the spaces between the essentializing forces that we all face. We invite manuscripts that experiment with the intertwining of identities and those that explore how to exert agency within highly constrained contexts.

To be considered for the Spring 2017 themed issue, manuscripts must be received by midnight (EST) on Tuesday, February 28th.

For manuscript submission guidelines, please click here.