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Journal Information

The Community Literacy Journal is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes both scholarly work that contributes to theories, methodologies, and research agendas and work by literacy workers, practitioners, creative writers, and community literacy program staff. We are especially committed to presenting work done in collaboration between academics and community members, organizers, activists, teachers, students, and artists.

We understand “community literacy” as including multiple domains for literacy work extending beyond mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects, including creative writing, graffiti art, protest songwriting, and social media campaigns.

For us, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal, technological, and embodied representations, as well. Community literacy is interdisciplinary and intersectional in nature, drawing from rhetoric and composition, communication, literacy studies, English studies, gender studies, race and ethnic studies, environmental studies, critical theory, linguistics, cultural studies, education, and more.

Journal Contact Information

Editorial

Veronica House
University of Denver
Veronica.House@du.edu

Isabel Baca
University of Texas at El Paso
ibaca@utep.edu

Natasha Jones
Michigan State University
jonesn30@msu.edu

Subscriptions and Donations Contact

Veronica House
Veronica.House@du.edu

Principal Contacts for Spring Regular Issues

Isabel Baca, Natasha Jones
Editors
Email: editorsclj@gmail.com

Principal Contact for Fall Special Issues

Veronica House
Editor
Email: editorsclj@gmail.com

Principal Contact Community Literacy Project and Program Profiles

Vincent Portillo
portilvi@bc.edu

Principal Contact Issues in Community Literacy

Michelle LaFrance
mlafran2@gmu.edu

Contact Coda: Community Writing and Creative Work

Coda Editorial Collective
coda.editors@gmail.com

Support Contact

Walter Lucken IV
Walter.Lucken@qc.cuny.edu