Gender Labels in Young Adult Literature with Drs. Rachelle Savitz and Vanessa Irvin
49m | May 9, 2024Gender Labels in Young Adult Literature with Drs. Rachelle Savitz and Vanessa Irvin
In today’s episode host Matt Sroka chats with Drs. Rachelle Savitz and Vanessa Irvin about using Young Adult Literature to critically examine issues around gender. This conversation centers around their article for JAAL titled: Developing an empathic analysis: Using critical literacy, dialogue, and inquiry with literature to explore the issues with gender labels
Rachelle S. Savitz is an associate professor of reading/literacy at East Carolina University. She was previously a K-12 literacy coach/interventionist and high school reading teacher. She values working with graduate students and teachers and learning with and from them. She has served on the board of directors for numerous national and state literacy organizations – wanting to be a part of the learning and collaboration pushing thinking in the realm of literacy. Dr. Savitz spotlights the necessity of teacher collaborators in her co-edited book, Teaching the "taboo": Diverse and inclusive literature is the way, with Routledge, where teachers highlight their classroom practices. She emphasizes teacher instruction with over 15 snapshots in the book with Teachers College Press, Trauma-sensitive literacy instruction: Building student resilience in English language arts classrooms. This book extends learning shared in Teaching Hope and Resilience for Students Experiencing Trauma: Creating Safe and Nurturing Classrooms for Learning, coauthored with Drs. Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey. She received the East Carolina University College of Education 2023-2024 Profiles in Diversity Award, the 2019 Association of Literacy Educators and Researcher’s Jerry Johns Promising Researcher Award, and the 2018 Early Career Literacy Scholar Award from the American Reading Forum.
Dr. Vanessa Irvin is an associate professor with the Master of Library Science Program at East Carolina University (USA). Dr. Irvin has authored three books and 35 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. V has led grant-funded research projects that explore ways in which heritage-based knowledge systems impact our information-seeking behaviors and literacy practices in daily life. Irvin's work investigates libraries as collaborative communities of literacy practices and platforms for literacy justice for diverse and local/Indigenous communities. Dr. V is equally interested in the social informatics of informal learning and the evolution of librarian professional practices with reference services under the influence of emerging technologies. Irvin serves as Co-Editor of the open-access peer-reviewed journal, The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, where she manages an editorial team of 20 librarians and an editorial board of 35 LIS scholars. Dr. Irvin is President-Elect of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).
Resources:
Gender Equality in Education Multi-Journal Special Issue
