This graduate seminar will examine the foundations and central tenets of influential theories that undergird scholarship in literacy studies. The theories explored will include Critical Race Theory (CRT), critical poststructuralist, feminist, queer, literary, affect, and sociocultural theories. Theoretical traditions will be examined through their historical and social movement roots through their current applications, debates, research techniques, and criticisms, always with particular attention to how they have been taken up in literacy research. A key focus of this course is to examine the utility and limitations of frameworks and consider their possible applications to students' own research.
