Embodied Literacies Project

The Stanford Study of Writing raises questions about literacy that Jenn Fishman set out to explore with her colleagues at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Together with co-principal investigators Stacey Pigg and Mary Jo Reiff, as well as a team of graduate co-researchers, Jenn embarked on the Embodied Literacies Project, a two-year inquiry into whether and how college writers benefit as rhetors when they have opportunities to embody academic discourse through oral performance and digital media. The group's work was supported by a 2006 WPA Research Grant, and preliminary findings are available online.