LiteracyStudies@OSU
Coordinated by Harvey J. Graff (English and History) and colleagues from English, History, Design, Art, Architecture, Education, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Chemistry, Biology, and Public Affairs, including among others Valerie Kinlock (Teaching & Learning), Peter Shane (Law), Carolina Gill (Design), Doug Post (Medicine), Cassandra Parente (English, Marion), Anne Fields (University Library) and Rick Voithofer (Educational Technology).
LiteracyStudies@OSU began in 2004 as a 
working group of the Humanities Institute, with the goal of initiating a campus-wide conversation, or set of conversations, about literacy and literacy studies through a variety of endeavors. Today, the program is recognized widely at OSU and beyond as a model of interdisciplinary program development. Its roster of programs include a lecture series that spotlights major research projects and publications; public programs organized and moderated by members of the executive group as a way to further explore their own goals and interests as well as to bring colleagues from different areas together to discuss relevant issues and research opportunities; focused conferences and symposia; several reading and discussion groups, including the History of the Book and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies. These academic initiatives and programming activities are producing new insights and ideas about of the complexity of making, communicating, and comprehending meaning in diverse media and cultural contexts. The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies is an important outcome. The curriculum brings together historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of research aimed at understanding the different uses of literacy and what they mean to the participants and society. See the Literacy Studies Web site.
working group of the Humanities Institute, with the goal of initiating a campus-wide conversation, or set of conversations, about literacy and literacy studies through a variety of endeavors. Today, the program is recognized widely at OSU and beyond as a model of interdisciplinary program development. Its roster of programs include a lecture series that spotlights major research projects and publications; public programs organized and moderated by members of the executive group as a way to further explore their own goals and interests as well as to bring colleagues from different areas together to discuss relevant issues and research opportunities; focused conferences and symposia; several reading and discussion groups, including the History of the Book and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies. These academic initiatives and programming activities are producing new insights and ideas about of the complexity of making, communicating, and comprehending meaning in diverse media and cultural contexts. The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies is an important outcome. The curriculum brings together historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of research aimed at understanding the different uses of literacy and what they mean to the participants and society. See the Literacy Studies Web site.
