De/constructing Literacies

Amélie Lemieux is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Technology at Mount Saint Vincent University. A Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal Recipient and TedX speaker, Lemieux's research extends an expansive view of literacy informed by multidimensional epistemologies that combine digital literacy and the arts.

• List of Figures – Introduction – Literacies as Engrenages or How Phenomenological Hermeneutics Impact Literacy Studies – De/constructing Reading Engagement – Illustrating Reading Engagement: Indicators, Meaning-Making, and Beyond – Mapping Reactions across Students: Engagement Tendencies – Community-Oriented Literacies and the Place of Materiality – Index.

"De/constructing Literacies moves us closer to holistic understandings of literacy and learning by presenting literacies as both embodied and distributed, emergent and sedimented, affective and social. Weaving together theoretical strands from phenomenological hermeneutics and posthumanism, Lemieux pushes central conversations in the field forward by making sure the contributions of key deconstructionists, namely Barthes, Ricoeur and Gadamer, are not left behind. The book’s careful empirical groundedness undergirds and lends support to its remarkable theoretical contributions."—Brice Nordquist, Syracuse University