When teaching Jewish texts depicting genders as unequal, educators have expressed the concern that students may question Jewish ethics if texts are not seen as representing more positive values and gender roles. This speaks to the often-stated goal for Jewish education to give s…
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Communication in the modern world has assumed a new dimension as the over-reliance on verbal/written expression of the past is being jettisoned for multimodal communication. Multimodality draws on a wide range of semiotic resources for the projection of meaning. In human history…
This dissertation contributes to the fields of applied linguistics and literacy studies by considering the complex meaning-making processes of adults from refugee backgrounds as they navigate new textual, linguistic, and educational landscapes. Meaning-making as it is understood…
This project focuses on the development and empirical study of design pedagogy for teaching and learning communication work in professional and technical communication (PTC) courses. It provides communication design history, theoretical and practical frameworks, and results of a…
While the literacy narrative genre has been studied in first-year composition and methods of teaching courses, investigations of the literacy narrative as a multimodal project for pre-service teachers (PSTs) of English Language Arts remain scarce. This research shares a qualitat…
In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together Bateson’s (1972) and Goffman’s (1974) interactional under…
This dissertation analyzes works by two African Italian women writers of Somali descent, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah and Igiaba Scego, with a particular focus on representations of the voice and the body. Ali Farah and Scego, two of the most prominent authors of Italian postcolonial…