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Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo
(Informa UK Limited, 2023-07)This article presents findings from a visual network analysis study mapping the collective response to digital disinformation and misinformation, or digital dismisinfo, in the United States. Inspired by the digital ... -
The Ecological Resonance of Imogen’s Journey in Montana’s Parks
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-10)In this article Gretchen Minton and Mikey Gray discuss an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy Cymbeline that toured Montana and surrounding states in the summer of 2021. Minton’s sections describe the eco-feminist aims ... -
Ecological Adaptation in Montana: Timon of Athens to Timon of Anaconda
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-02)In this article Gretchen E. Minton describes her adaptation of William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton’s 1606 play Timon of Athens. This adaptation, called Timon of Anaconda, focuses on the environmental legacy of Butte, ... -
Domestic Entrapment and Supernatural Protection: Mapping the Ambiguous Relationship Between Female Subject and Domestic Space in Shirley Jackson's "House Novels"
(Montana State Univeristy, 2022-05-13)Shirley Jackson’s three “house novels” offer new ways of understanding the tensions between women and their domestic spaces in the post-World War II American society. Studying The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always ... -
Presupposition as investigator certainty in a police interrogation: The case of Lorenzo Montoya's false confession
(2018-07)This article presents an analysis of the use by police investigators of presupposition-bearing questions (PBQs) in interrogation as a process for communicating certainty of guilt. Among the techniques of interrogational ... -
“Although Adolescence Need Not Be Violent…”: Preservice Teachers' Connections Between “Adolescence” and Literacy Curriculum
(2010-02)This article reports the findings of a study that examined how and why a group of pre-service secondary literacy teachers conceptualized and created various curricular activities involving young adult literary texts as ... -
Linking Contemporary Research on Youth, Literacy, and Popular Culture With Literacy Teacher Education
(2013-07-23)The aim of this article is to expand the dialogue about how contemporary scholarship on the intersections between youth, literacy, and popular culture might inform literacy teacher education. Specifically, this article is ... -
Raising issues of rurality in English teacher education
(2013-10)Despite the fact that each of us taught in English education programs in four other states—all of which have visible rural demographics—it took moving to Montana for us to fully recognize the need for our increased attention ... -
The Youth Lens: Analyzing Adolescence/ts in Literary Texts
(2015-02)Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship that re-conceptualizes adolescence as a cultural construct, this article introduces a Youth Lens. A Youth Lens comprises an approach to textual analysis that examines how ideas ... -
Critical Literature Pedagogy
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Teaching the Research Paper for Local Action
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