Ten Representative Publications

Peppler, K., Rowsell, J., & Keune, A. (2020). Advancing Posthumanist Perspectives on Technology-Rich Learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(4), 1240-1353.

Kress, G., & Rowsell, J. (2019). Literacy as a Social Practice – New Realities and New Models. In D. Bloome, M. L. Castanheira, C. Leung, & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Re-Theorizing Literacy Practices: Complex Social and Cultural Contexts (pp. 30-49). New York, NY: Routledge.

Rowsell, J., Lemieux, A., Swartz, L., Turcotte, M., & Burkitt, J. (2018). The Stuff That Heroes Are Made Of: Elastic, Sticky, Messy Literacies in Children’s Transmedial Cultures. Language Arts, 96(1), 7-20.

Rowsell, J., Maués, F., Moukperian, S., & Colquhoun, C. (2017). Apps and autodidacts:Wayfaring and emplaced thinking on iPads. In C. Burnett, G. Merchant, A. Simpson,& M. Walsh, (Eds.), The Case of the iPad: Mobile Literacies in Education (pp. 125-142). New York: Springer.

Rowsell, J., Burke, A., Flewitt, R., Liao, H-T., Lin, A., Marsh, J., Mills, K., Prinsloo, M.,

Rowe, D., & Wohlwend, K. (2016). Humanizing digital literacies: A road trip in search of wisdom and insight. Digital Literacy Column. The Reading Teacher, 70(1), 121-129.

Rowsell, J., & Wohlwend, K. E. (2016). Free Play or Tight Spaces? Mapping Participatory Literacies in Apps. The Reading Teacher, 70(2), 197-205.

Rowsell, J. (2015). What Professionals Can Teach Us About Education: A Call for Change. Cambridge Journal of Education, 46(1), 81-96.

Rowsell, J. (2014). Toward a Phenomenology of Contemporary Reading. The Australian Journal of Literacy and Language, 37(2), 117-127.

Rowsell, J., Kress, G., Pahl, K. & Street, B. (2012). The Social Practice of Multimodal Reading: A New Literacy Studies-Multimodal Perspective on Reading. In D. Alvermann & Unrau (Eds.) Theoretical Models and Reading Processes, (sixth ed.). Delaware:IRA Publication.

Rowsell, J. (2011). Carrying my Family with Me: Artifacts as Emic Perspectives. Qualitative Research, 11, 331-346.

Research monographs (partial list)

McLean, C., & Rowsell, J. (Eds). (2021). Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age: Learning and Playing through Modes and Media. New York: Routledge. 2021 Divergent Award for Excellence in Twenty-First Century Literacies Research.

Marshall, B., Manuel, J., Pasternak, D. L., & Rowsell, J. (Eds.). (2020). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices. London, UK: Bloomsbury. United Kingdom Literacy Association Shortlisted Academic Book Award 2021.

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J. with D. Collier, S. Pool, Z. Rasool and T. Trzecak. (2020). Living Literacies: Literacy for Social Change. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

Kucirkova, N., Rowsell, J., & Falloon, G. (Eds.). (2019). The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Morrell, E. & Rowsell, J. (Eds.). (2019). Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education: Confronting Digital Divides. New York: Routledge.

Zaidi, R. & Rowsell, J. (Eds). (2017). Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times. Expanding Literacies in Education Series. New York, NY: Routledge.

Rowsell, J. & Pahl, K. (Eds.). (2015). The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies. London: Routledge.

Burnett, C., Davies, J., Merchant, G., & Rowsell, J. (2014). New Literacies around the Globe: Policy and pedagogy. London: Routledge.

Rowsell, J. (2013). Working with Multimodality: Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age. London: Routledge.

Pahl, K. & Rowsell, J. (2012). Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. Second Edition. London: Sage.