Kevin Leander

Associate Professor of Language and Literacy

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999

Research Areas

Adolescent Literacy, English Education, Literacy and Technology, Spatial Approaches to Social Science Research

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Selected Publications

Leander, K. M. & Rowe, D. W. (in press). Mapping literacy spaces in motion: A rhizomatic analysis of a classroom literacy performance. Reading Research Quarterly.

Leander, K. M. & Lovvorn, J. (in press). Literacy networks: Following the circulation of texts, bodies, and objects in the schooling and online gaming of one youth. Cognition & Instruction.

Leander, K. & Sheehy, M. (Eds.) (2004). Spatializing literacy research and practice. New York: Peter Lang.

Holland, D. & Leander, K. M. (Eds.) (2004). Ethos 32. (Themed Issue). Ethnographic studies of positioning and subjectivity: Narkotraffikers, Taiwanese brides, angry loggers, school troublemakers.

Leander, K. M. & McKim, K. K. (2003). Tracing the everyday "sitings" of adolescents on the Internet: A strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces. Education, Communication, & Information 3(2), 211-240.

Leander, K. M. (2002). Polycontextual construction zones: Mapping the expansion of schooled space and identity. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 9, 211-237.

Leander, K. M. (2002). Locating Latanya: The situated production of identity artifacts in classroom interaction. Research in the Teaching of English, 37, 198-250.

Leander, K.M. (2002). Silencing in classroom interaction: Producing and relating social spaces. Discourse Processes, 34, 193-235.

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