Luminous Literacies

Mary Frances Rice, is an Assistant Professor of literacy at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarship uses interdisciplinary approaches and material/new material lenses to understand and support in-clusive online educational practices and policies.Ashley K. Dallacqua is an Assistant Professor of literacy at the University of New Mexico. Ashley earned her PhD at The Ohio State University. Her scholarship focuses on multimodal approaches to literacy.

• Part One: Highlighting Our ContextsChapter 1. Teachers of New Mexico: A Photo Essay; Michelle Jewett and Eli Henley Chapter 2. Querencias, Contested Homelands, and Sites as Storied Texts: Exploring the Place Orientations of New Mexico in a Teacher Workshop; Rebecca M. Sanchez Chapter 3. Dialogue Journals in the Secondary Classroom: Promoting Growth, Resilience, and Storytelling; Isabella Perea Chapter 4. Reimagining Doctoral Education for Sociocultural Goals in New Mexico: One Department’s Story; Don ZancanellaPart Two: Using Personal Histories to Illuminate Literacy Texts and PracticesChapter 5. Individual, Historical, and Critical Contexts: Investigating the Text Selection Practices of Four New Mexican Language Arts Teachers; Annmarie Sheahan Chapter 6. Waking Up to the Literacies and Diversities of New Mexico; Monique MontoyaChapter 7. Creating a Safe Space for Students to Explore Trauma and Build Resilience Through Young Adult Literature, Creative Composing, and Personal Experiences; Brittany R. Raymond Chapter 8. Radical Drama as Educational Catharsis; Damon R. Carbajal Part Three: Finding Light in Critical Practices and Local IdentitiesChapter 9. Transforming Teaching Through Critical Literacies; Rachel Goar Chapter 10. Creating Locally Relevant Curriculum with Graphic Novels; Mark R. BailonChapter 11. Teaching Indigenous Literature and History as US Literature and History; Brigid OvittChapter 12. Asserting LGBTQIA+ Literacy Practices in the Curriculum; Ashley NowikowskiPart Four: Luminous Multimodal Literacies in ActionChapter 13. Literacies to Grow and Teach: Cultivating a Spirit of Inquiry through Multimodal Text Sets; Rick MarlattChapter 14. Using Multimodal Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities in a Non-Traditional Classroom; Gloria A. Valderrama PoloChapter 15. Creating a Classroom Affinity Space with Video Games and Virtual Reality as Literature; Miles Madison Harvey and Lucretia E. Penny PencePart Five: Shedding light on literacies past and futureChapter 16. Cultivating the Activist Life; Richard J. MeyerChapter 17. How Yazzie-Martinez v. NM Highlights Inequities in Public Education for Indigenous Students and Underscores the Need for Critical Literacy Education; Natalie Martinez