1st Edition
Literacies in Times of Disruption Living and Learning During a Pandemic
Chapter One – Introduction: Disruption and Emergence in Extraordinary Times
Interchapter – The Timeline of the Pandemic at One University
Chapter Two – Affect and Embodiment in Writing During the Pandemic
Chapter Three – The Uncertain and Shifting Social Contexts of Emotion and School
Chapter Four – Memory, Narrative, and the Shaping of Identities Through the Pandemic
Chapter Five – Going to "School" or Staying "Home": Remaking Places and Place
Chapter Six – Rethinking Relationships With, and Through, Digital Media
Chapter Seven – Writing Out of Time: Temporal Disruptions and Literacy Experiences
Chapter Eight – Experiences of Education and Relationships of Learning in the Pandemic
Chapter Nine – Conclusion: The Ongoing Ripples from Disruptions for Literacy and Learning
Biography
Bronwyn T. Williams is a Professor of English and Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. He writes and teaches on issues of literacy, identity, sustainability, digital media, and writing pedagogy. His previous books include Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency: Composing Identities; New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders; Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading and Writing Online; and Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education.
'When educators years from now seek to understand the meaning of the pandemic for university students’ learning and literacy practices, Literacies in Times of Disruption will be an indispensable touchstone. In interviews with students that are revealing, surprising, and often moving, Williams documents students’ uncertainties and loneliness in the early days of the pandemic, but also their creativity and resolve as they reimagined their relationships to place, technology, school, and their teachers. Bronwyn Williams offers in this book a wise, scholarly, deeply empathetic meditation on what disruptions of the recent past may tell us about how students learn and practice literacy in the future.'
- John Duffy, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, USA
