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. (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.

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

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

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

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.

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. (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.