Asynchronous Virtual Presentations

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“‘I Got a Story to Tell’: Exploring Creative-Critical Hip Hop Literacy”

Kashema Hutchinson

This asynchronous presentation explores and reimagines literacy education by positioning Hip Hop as a legitimate and transformative pedagogical approach that equips students with critical and creative literacy skills and empowers them to engage with social justice issues.  

“When AI Literacy Meets Computational Creativity: Vignettes of a Preservice Teacher's Journey with Generative AI”  

Suriati Abas

This asynchronous presentation explores the intersection of AI literacy and computational creativity through the lens of a preservice teacher's experience creating comics using generative AI.

“Literacies of the Intersubjective Self in Communal Roleplay Gaming”

Jadyn Cearnal

This asynchronous presentation addresses the literacies that are emergent in the experience of roleplay, specifically in the context of the tabletop game Dungeon & Dragons.

“Reimagining Community Engagement: The Intersection of Creativity and Public-Facing Events”

Alexandra Cenatus

This asynchronous presentation explores the process behind the production of visual materials for public-facing events and how intentional collaboration with creative partners can transform visual and programmatic content.

“Writing Utopias As Resistance”

Lia Wu

This asynchronous presentation highlights the visual modalities of the donghua/anime adaptations of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and The Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyuuga to show how written literacies empower stories to circumvent or survive censorship and reclaim value, legitimacy, and space.

“Dialectal Literacy and Language Ideology: Iraqi Arabic as Cultural Memory”

Zainab Aldaoseri

This asynchronous presentation analyzes Iraqi oral poetry to explore Iraqi Arabic not simply as a dialect, but a living, breathing form of literacy, embodied, affective, and deeply political.

“Stories that Matter: Using Digital Storytelling to Develop Critical Literacy”

Rasna Afroz

This asynchronous presentation explores strategies for incorporating digital storytelling to create a universal classroom, challenge social norms and power structures beyond traditional reading and writing, and encourage student engagement. 

“Affirming Multilingualism: Creative – Critical Literacies and Multimodal Pedagogy in the ESL Classroom”

Molly Mingo

This asynchronous presentation explores how creative – critical literacies can transform English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching by affirming linguistic diversity and empowering multilingual students through pedagogies that embrace their full linguistic abilities.

The Mis/Education of Black Intellects: Havens of Resistance and Rhetorical Mapping

Chris Atkins, Deja Groomes, Alexis Davis, Victoria Washington, Kelly Franklin

Moderated by: Kelly Franklin

From the Lady of Rage to the Dawgs on the field, this panel maps the daughters of Hip Hop and Black rhetorical traditions, advances Morrisonian theorization, and refuses Westernized literacy definitions. Our collective intervention extends Black feminist pedagogical practices into new geographical sites of critical inquiry where reimagination and resistance follow the Black radical tradition's enduring legacy..