In this project, Amir Kalan and his research team study how minoritized populations鈥� literacy practices are scrutinized by gatekeepers such as institutions, associations, professions, assessors, teachers, and publishers. When immigrants and refugees adopt their hosts鈥� languages to write in, they need to navigate the cultural norms that regulate the relations of the humans who are involved in construction, dissemination, evaluation, and consumption of written texts. In this project, we study the 鈥渄oxa鈥� that regulate dominant literacy norms. We, also, document the 鈥渙rganic literacies鈥� that help minorities develop academically, grow intellectually, and amplify their voices. We study how organic literacies challenge 鈥渢he Writingworld鈥�, or dominant writing cultures.
Principal Investigator:听Amir Kalan听
amir.kalan [at] mcgill.ca
This project听is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2016-present).
