Professor Jennifer Rowsell
BA (Hons), TEFL, MA, PhD
School of Education
Professor of Digital Literacy
Director of Research and Innovation


Full contact details
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
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- Profile
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I am an interdisciplinary researcher who started out my scholarly career studying literacy from an ethnographic-multimodal lens that continues today. Having conducted many research studies for over 20 years with a range in ages from young children and their parents all the way to older adults, I investigate the ways that people engage in literacy practices across all aspects of their lives. I have had the privilege of researching in many primary and secondary schools in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom and across a range of informal and formal contexts such as art galleries, addiction outreach centres, malls and shopping centres, churches, and pop-up makerspaces. For over a decade, I have focused more on digital literacy and, most recently on the notion of the post-digital. At the heart of my work is an enduring curiosity and passion for people’s stories about their lived literacy practices.
I had the honour of being a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair at Brock University which set me on a course of research to expand notions of literacy and learning beyond narrow definitions and tighter framings. I have written and co-written books, journal articles, chapters, and co-edited special issues on this line of inquiry.
- Research interests
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Post-digital spaces and practices; Affect and sensory approaches to research; Disruptive and craftivist pedagogies; Multimodality; Digital literacy; Digital pedagogies education; Algorithmic Reading Practices; Data literacies; Multimodal composition; Arts-based approaches to literacy research; Posthumanism and Sociomaterial theorising of literacy and learning.
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Reports
Other
Preprints
- Teaching interests
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Digital pedagogies; post-qualitative research methods; Participatory learning; Digital literacies; The arts and literacy theory; Qualitative research methods; Digital cultures and education; Language, literacies, and identities; and, Socio-digital futures.
- Professional activities and memberships
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I am Co-Convenor of the UKLA Everyday Literacies SIG with Clare Dowdall; I am Lead Editor of Reading Research Quarterly with Cheryl McLean, Christian Ehret, and Natalia Kucirkova with Editorial Assistant Bev Enion; and, I am Co-Series Editor of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education Series with Carmen Medina.