Dr. Kedrick James

Professor of Teaching

Director, Okanagan School of Education

he / him / his

https://kedrickjames.net
https://dlsn.lled.educ.ubc.ca

Media

Audio Recordings

James, K., Peña, E., & Takeda, Y., & Morales, E. (2020). Singling’s First (Adult) Conversation in 5 Parts. Bandcamp. https://kedrickjames.bandcamp.com/track/singlings-first-adult-conversation-in-five-parts

James, K., Klassen, D., & Peña, E. (2020). Knocking Speakers Off Plinths [Full album]. Bandcamp and online stores. https://emetics.bandcamp.com/album/knocking-speakers-off-plinths

James, K., Klassen, D., & Peña, E. (2020). Permanent Damage [Full album]. Bandcamp and online stores. https://emetics.bandcamp.com/album/permanent-damage
James, K., Klassen, D., & Peña, E. (2020). Bamboo Popes [Full Album]. Bandcamp and online stores. https://emetics.bandcamp.com/album/bamboo-popes
James, K., & Klassen, D. (2020). Bizarre as Usual [Full album]. Online stores.

James, K., & Klassen, D. (2014). Fluke Audio, Part 1 [Vinyl LP]. No Label, Vancouver,

Projects

Visit the Digital Literacy Centre website for complete details: https://dlsn.lled.educ.ubc.ca/

Courses

LLED 565S Digital Methods in Literacy Research

LLED 565C Poetic and Narrative Inquiry

LLED 480 / 565E Environmental Literacy

LLED 452 Disciplinary Literacies: Intermediate and Secondary (Online)

LLED 445 Teaching Poetry

LLED 439 Teaching Film and Performance

LLED 367 Teaching Writing: Secondary Methods (Online)

LLED 361 Literacy Practices and Assessment (Online)

Selected Publications

Gladwin, D. & James, K. (2026)

Becoming Ecological: Navigating Language and Meaning for Our Planet’s Future. Aevo (trade imprint of University of Toronto Press).

Ahn, C., Balyasnikova, N., Horst, R., James, K., Morales, E., Takeda, Y., & Yung, E. (2023)

Enhancing relationality through poetic engagement with PhoneMe: Transmodal contexts and interpretive agency, Language and Literacy 25(2), 57-83.

Gladwin, D., Horst, R., James, K., Sameshima, P. (2022)

Imagining futures literacies: A collaborative practice. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 22(7), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v22i7

James, K., Horst, R., Takeda, Y., & Morales, E. (in press, 2021)

A patch-work of pedagogical potential: A syn(aes)thetic approach to technologically enhanced multimedia text production. McGill Journal of Education. 25 pages.

Morales, E., James, K., Horst, R., Takeda, Y., & Yung, E. (2021)

The sound of our words: Singling, a textual sonification software. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD). https://icad2021.icad.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ICAD_2021_38.pdf

Horst, R., James, K., Morales, E., Takeda, Y., & Yung, E. (2021)

Skunk Tales: A collaborative, multimodal, futures narrative. In Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies Celebration of Scholarly and Artistic Works.

James, K., Morales, E., Horst, R., & Yung, E. (in press)

Singling: Text sonification and the literacoustics of language-to-MIDI transformations. In A. Klobucar (Ed.), The Community and the Algorithm. 20 pages. Vernon Press.

Peña, E., & James, K. (2020)

Raw harmonies: Transmediation through raw data. Leonardo, 53(2), 183-188.

Horst, R., James, K., Takeda, Y., & Rowluck, W. (2020)

From play to creative extrapolation: Fostering emergent computational thinking in the makerspace. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 15(5), 40-54.

Balyasnikova, N., & James, K. (2020)

PhoneMe poetry: Mapping community in the digital age. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning, 6(2). 107-117. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v6i2.69984

Karasick, A., & James, K. (2020)

To breath poetry among the neighbors: Two essays on Anerca, a journal of experimental writing (1985-1990). Among the Neighbors 13, 1-39.

James, K., Peña, E., Takeda, Y., & Digital Literacy Centre. (2020)

Transmedia: An improvisualization. In B. Gervais & S. Marcotte (Eds.), Attention à la Marche! Mind the Gap!: Thinking Electronic Literature in a Digital Culture | Penser la Littérature Électronique en Culture Numérique (pp. 85-102). Les Presse De l’Écureuil.

James, K. (2019)

Mapping sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) through curriculum and practice in a Canadian teacher education program. Canadian Journal of Education 42(4), 957-991.

James, K. (Writer / Producer) (2019)

TEFA Interview Findings on SOGI Inclusion [Podcast]. Teacher Education for All Curriculum Mapping Project Interviews. University of British Columbia. Retrieved from https://blogs.ubc.ca/tefainterviews/2019/08/23/

James, K. (2019).

Spring. In B. White, P. Sameshima, & A. Sinner (Eds.), MA: Materiality in teaching and learning. (pp. 221-232). Peter Lang.

James, K. and Leggo, C. (2017).

Poetry from the matrix of Mother Earth and Mother Board. Axon: Creative Explorations, (7) 2. http://www.axonjournal.com.au/issue-13/poetry-matrix-mother-nature-and-mother-board

Sameshima, P., Fidyk, A., James, K. & Leggo, C. (2017)

Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place. Delaware: Vernon Press. https://vernonpress.com/book/134

James, K. (2017).

Antics of a cultural recycler: Visualizing data poetry. In L. Butler-Kisber, J. J. Guiney Yallop, M. Stewart, & S. Wiebe (Eds.), Poetic inquiries of reflections and renewal: Poetry as research (pp. 244–259). Lunenburg, NS: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing.

Peña, E., & James, K. (2016).

A glitch pedagogy: Exquisite error and the appeal of the accidental. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, (14)1, 108–127.

James, K. (2016).

Brave new network: The gambit of living automated lives. In j. jagodzinski (Ed.), The precarious future of education: Education, psychoanalysis, and social transformation (pp. 195–223). Toronto & New York: Palgrave.

James, K. (2015).

Mapping critical media literacy onto iterative remix practices. In P. Schmidt & A. Lazar (Eds.), Reconceptualizing literacy in the new age of multiculturalism and pluralism: A tribute to Peter Mosenthal (2nd ed., pp. 125–150). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.