Dr. Theresa Rogers

Professor
Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
PHONE
work phone: 604–822–0901
OFFICE
PCOH 3135
WEBSITE
ubc.academia.edu/TheresaRogers
RESEARCH AREAS
Adolescent Literacies, Critical Literacy, Digital Literacy, Teacher Education In Literacy, Young Adult Literature

Biography

My current interests include working with youth on critical literacies, arts and media production in school and community settings.

A second area of interest is literary theoretical perspectives in relation to contemporary adolescent literature. I participate in MACL, the UBC multidisciplinary children’s literature program (English, Creative Writing, SLAIS, LLED).

My current role in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies includes several projects to support graduate students that focus on intercultural communication, Indigenous student support, graduate supervision principles and practices, and developing and providing supervision resources for faculty (with support from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund and the Equity Enhancement Fund).

Projects

  • Youth, Literature, Mobilities, and Civic Engagement (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019-2023)
  • Researching a Unique Community Program for Eliminating Financial Barriers to Education and Training among Youth and Young Adults (UBC FoE Andrews Grant, 2019-2020)
  • Connecting international and Canadian scholars, teachers, and community educators to address digital equity: Access, ethics and engagement in digital language and literacy research and practice (SSHRC Connection Grant) 2016-2017
  • Low income kids falling through the digital divide: A cross national study of social and cultural literacies (Collaborator, Brock University SSHRC IDG 2016-201)
  • Digital literacy among women in rural Botswana (Hampton Fund 2011-2013)
  • Informal literacy and learning among street youth (Andrews Grant 2010)
  • The YouthCLAIM project: Critical literacies and arts-integrated media practices of youth in school and community settings.http://www.theresarogers.ca (SSHRC fund 2007-2010)
  • Critical perspectives on adolescent literature: An exploration of issues related to Holocaust writing and teaching for young adults; analyses of space and place in Quebecois young adult literature. See ubc.academia.edu/TheresaRogers for publications and full texts.

Awards

UBC Killam Teaching Award
CSSE Graduate Student of Education Association Mentoring Award
Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation Award, International Reading Association
Two Year Postdoctoral Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ohio State University

Selected Publications

Rogers, T., Smythe, S., Darvin, R. and Anderson, J. (2018) (Eds) Special Issue: Equity and Digital Literacy: Access, Ethics and Engagements. Language and Literacy, 20, 3. journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/issue/view/1944

Rogers, T. and Hamilton, C. (2018) The best of young adult fiction: Classic and revolutionary reads for 2018. The Conversation. Jan. 4th. theconversation.com/best-of-young-adult-fiction-classic-and-revolutionary-reads-for-2018-88776

Brisson, G. and Rogers, T. (2018). Dis/placed in Canada: A Québécois Graphic Novel in Translation. Bookbird, 56. 4

Rogers, T. and Shafer, R. (2018) Addressing Homelessness in our Schools and Language Arts Classrooms. Research and Policy Column. Language Arts, 96, 2.

Marshall, E., & Rogers, T. (2017). Youth, poetry, and zines: Rewriting the streets as home. Bookbird 55(2), 28–36.

Rogers, T. (2016). Youth arts, media, and critical literacies as forms of public engagement in the local/global interface. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 65(1), 268–282.

Rogers, T., & Winters, K. (2016). Textual play, satire and counter discourses of street youth ‘zining practices. In D. Alvermann (Ed.), Adolescents’ online literacies: connecting classrooms, media, and paradigms (2nd ed). New York: Peter Lang.

Rogers, T., Winters, K., LaMonde, A., & Perry, M. (2015/2010). From image to ideology: Analyzing shifting positions of marginalized youth across cultural sites of video production. Pedagogies: An International Journal, Special 10th Anniversary Virtual Issue. Retrieved from http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/ed/hped-vsi/

Rogers, T., Winters, K., Perry, M., & LaMonde, A. (2015). Youth, critical literacy and civic engagement: Arts, media and literacy in the lives of adolescents. New York: Routledge.

O’Brien, D., & Rogers, T. (invited, 2015). Sociocultural literacy. In L. Corno & E. Anderman (Eds.), Third Handbook of Educational Psychology (3rd ed., pp. 311-322). New York: Routledge.

Ford, C. Ed. (2015) with Rogers, T. (production editor). Words from the Street II. Writings from Another Slice. Vancouver, East Van Graphics.

Sanford, K., Rogers, T. & Kendrick, M. (2014). Everyday Youth Literacies: Critical Perspectives for New Times. Singapore: Springer. Series Editor, Victoria Carrington.

Rogers, T., Schroeter, S., Wager, A and Hague, C. (2014). Public Pedagogies of Street-entrenched Youth: New Literacies, Identity and Social Critique. In Sanford, K., Rogers, T. & Kendrick, M. (Eds) Everyday Youth Literacies: Critical Perspectives for New Times. Singapore: Springer.

Rogers, T. (2012). Foreword. Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self. Guzzetti, B. and Bean, T.W. (Eds). New York: Routledge.

Brisson, G. and Rogers, T. (2012). Reading Place: Bodies and Spaces in Québécois Adolescent Literature. Children’s Literature in Education

Rogers, T. and Marshall, E. (2012). On the Road: Examining Self-Representation, Youth, and Discourses of Homelessness in Young Adult Literature. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literature, 55 (8) (May, 2012)

Perry, M. & Rogers, T. (2011). Meddling with “drama class,” muddling “urban”: Imagining aspects of the urban feminine self through an experimental theatre process with youth. In Research in Drama Education: the Journal of Applied Theatre, special issue: Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts, 16 (2) 197-213.

Rogers, T., Winters, K., LaMonde, AM. and Perry, M. (2010). From image to ideology: Analyzing shifting identity positions of marginalized youth across the cultural sites of video production. Pedagogies: An International Journal (Volume 5, Issue 4, October)

Kendrick, M., Rogers, T., Toohey, K., Marshall, E., Mutonyi, H., and Hauge, C. (2010). Experiments in visual analysis: (Re)Positionings of children and youth in relation to larger socio-cultural issues. 59th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference/Literacy Research Association, Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Rogers, T. et al (students in the MACL program) (2010). “Looking for Canada: Places and cultural spaces in recent fiction for adolescents. Jeunesse: Young People’s Texts, Cultures, Volume 2, 1.

Rogers, T. and Winters, K. (2010). Textual play, satire, and counter discourses of street youth zining practices. In Alvermann, D. (Ed)Adolescents’ Online Literacies. New York: Peter Lang.

Mills, E., & Rogers, T. (Eds.). (2009). Words from the Street. Writings from Another Slice. Vancouver, SPN Publishing.

Rogers, T. (2009). Theorizing media productions as complex literacy performances among youth in and out of schools. In D.L. Pullen and D. Cole (Eds). Handbook of Research on Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education. Philadelphia, PA: IGI Publications.

LaMonde, A.M. and Rogers, T. (2007). Infusing arts and media into a secondary pre-service course in language and literacy across the disciplines as imaginative and critical practices. Language and Literacy, 9 (2). See archives for Autumn 2007.

Soter, A, Faust, M. and Rogers, T. (Eds) (2007). Interpretive Play: Using critical perspectives to teach young adult literature. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon.

Rogers, T., Marshall, G., & Tyson, C. (2006). Narratives of literacy, teaching and schooling: Preparing teachers for diverse settings. Reading Research Quarterly, 41(2)

Dressman, M., O’Brien, D. Rogers, T., Ivey, G., Wilder P., Alvermann, D., Moje, E. and Leander, K. (2006). ‘Problematizing Adolescent Literacies: Four Instances, Multiple Perspectives’. In Schallert, D. et al (Eds). 55th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Schneider, J., Crumpler, P. & Rogers, T. (Eds). (2006) Process drama and multiple literacies. Portsmouth, N.H. Heinemann.

Marshall, E. and Rogers, T. (2005). Writing back: Rereading adolescent girlhoods through women’s memoir. The ALAN Review, 33 (1).

Rogers, T. and Schofield, A. (2005). Things thicker than words: Portraits of youth multiple literacies in an alternative secondary program. In Anderson, J., Kendrick, M., Rogers, T. and Smythe, S. (Eds.) Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities and Schools. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. (See Full Text Articles)

Schofield, A. and Rogers, T. (2004). At play in fields of ideas. The lives and multiple literacies of at risk youth. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 48(3), pp. 238-248.

Rogers, T. (2002). Understanding in the Absence of Meaning: Coming of Age Novels of the Holocaust. The New Advocate, 15 (3), pp. 259-266.

Community Work

Spencer-Creo Impact Award Committee, Family Services of Greater Vancouver, 2015-present.
Board of Directors, Family Services of Greater Vancouver, 2014-2017

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