Publications, Presentations, Interviews

PUBLICATIONS

Simon, R., Gallagher, B., & Walkland, T. (2022). “Swirling a million feelings into one”: Working-Through Critical and Affective Responses to the Holocaust through Comics. Research in the Teaching of English.

Simon, R., Gallagher, B., Walkland, T., Allen, A., Friesen, D., Evis, S., & Kalan, A., with youth from the Addressing Injustices Project: Matthew Burbidge, Nora Farrell, Julian Hetman, Marley Hosang, Talia Morais, Veronica Parks, Emily Raposo, Lucas Sanchez, Rami Simon, Griffin Stewart-Wilson. (In press, 2022). “We can’t ever let this happen again”: Addressing anti-Semitism through arts-based inquiry. In Confronting anti-Semitism on Campus. V. Stead (Ed.). New York: Peter Lang.

Friesen, D., & Simon, R. (2021). Making Fahrenheit 451 “come to life”: Sound inquiries with youth and teachers. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 65(1), pp. 47-54.

Allen, A.A., & Simon, R. (2021). Unsettling a canonical text through erasure poetry. English Journal, 110(5), pp. 43-50.

Simon, R., Nichols, P., Campano, G., & Edwards, W. (2019). “There is really a lot going on here”: Toward a cosmopolitics of reader-response. In S. Jagger and P. Trifonis (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education, (pp. 175-189). NY: Routledge.

Simon, R., hicks, b.l., Walkland, T., Gallagher, B., Evis, S., & Baer, P. (2019). Breaking Gender Expectations: Adolescents’ Critical Rewriting of a Trans Young-Adult Novel. In B. Guzzetti, J. Dunkerly-Bean, & T. Bean (Eds.), Literacies, Sexualities, and Gender: Understanding Identities from Preschool to Adulthood, (pp. 141-152). New York: Routledge.

Simon, R., hicks, b.l., Walkland, T., Gallagher, B., Sarah Evis, S., & Baer, P. (2018).“But in the end, you are all beautiful”: Exploring gender through digital composition. English Journal, 107(3), pp. 39-46.

Simon, R., & Kalan, A. (2017). Adolescent literacy and collaborative inquiry. In D. Appleman & K. Hinchman (Eds.), Adolescent Literacy: A Handbook of Practice-based Research (pp. 398-420). NY: Routledge.

Simon, R., Evis, S., Walkland, T., Kalan, A., & Baer, P. (2016). Navigating the “delicate relationship between empathy and critical distance”: Youth literacies, social justice and arts-based inquiry. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 15(3), pp. 430-449.

Transforming research into “something more lively and radical”: Collaborative inquiry as public scholarship for diverse democracies.
Teacher as Researcher SIG Newsletter, pp. 6-9. American Educational Research Association. (2015).

Simon, R., & Campano, G. (2015). Hermeneutics of literacy pedagogy
In K. Pahl & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies (pp. 476-482). NY: Routledge.

Simon, R., Bailey, A., Brennan, J., Calarco, A., Clarke, K., Edwards, W., Fujiwara, C., Kalan, A., Kruja, J., McInnes-Greenberg, E., & Pisecny, A. (2014). “In the swell of wandering words”: The arts as a vehicle for adolescents’ and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night. Perspectives on Urban Education, 11(2), pp. 90-106.

Presentations

Walkland, T., & Simon, R. (2022). “Silence has a way of speaking”: Reflections on presence, absence, and proximity in middle school literature circles. Submitted as part of a symposium, “Cosmopolitical Approaches to Intersectional Readings of Literature.” Panel presentation to the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Simon, R., Gallagher, B., Allen, A.A., Owis, B., & Cavanaugh, L. (November 2021). Contrapuntal Perspectives and Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Literacy Research: Reflections from Participants in a Multiyear Participatory Research Project. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) annual meeting, online.

Simon, R., Evis, S., Gallagher, B., Allen, A.A., Owis, B., Walkland, T., & Friesen, D. (2021, April). Reflecting on Ethical Considerations and Methodological Dilemmas Within a Multi-Year Participatory Action Research Project. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting (AERA), Online.

Simon, R., Walkland, T., Gallagher, B., Allen, A.A., Friesen, D, & Ghiso, M. (2020, April. Online because of Covid). Remaking the Word to Rewrite the World: A Convergence of Diverse Practitioners and Literacy Practices. Symposium accepted to the American Educational Research Association annual meeting (AERA).

Simon, R., Walkland, T., Gallagher, B., Allen, A.A., Friesen, D, Appleman, D., & Ghiso, M. (2020, February). Addressing Injustices Through Collaborative Inquiry: Reflections on Working Together to Read the Word and Remake the World. Symposium presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum.

Simon, R., Walkland, T., Gallagher, B., Allen, A.A., & Friesen, D. (2019, December). (Re)storying Canonical Texts: Youth’s Critical Artmaking Practices and Constructively Interruptive Interpretations of Fahrenheit 451. Paper submitted with Appleman, D., Fecho, B., and Beach, R. as part of session proposal, Illuminating the Future of Literature Teaching: Research and Theory into Practice. Presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Tampa, Florida.

Simon, R., Evis, S., Walkland, T., Gallagher, B., Allen, A.A., Friesen, D., with 19 youth from the Addressing Injustices Project (2019, April). Free 451: Collaborative Teacher Research through Arts-Based Inquiry. Alternative session presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto.

Simon, R., Gallagher, B. Walkland, T., hicks, b.l., & Evis, S. (2019, April). Playfully Critical: Democratizing Research through Collaborative Multimodal Inquiry. Paper presentation at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, ON.

Gender is Like an Ocean: Adolescents’ and Teachers’ Grappling with All-Gender Identity and Inclusion
Alternative session presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (2019, February).

“Permanently etched in my mind”: Bearing Witness, Respectful Play, and the Emotional Landscape of Creative Inquiry
Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (2019, February).

What counts as participation in participatory research?
Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Palm Desert, CA. (2018, November).

Gender, Sexualities and Literacies Across the Lifespan. Alternative session presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Palm Desert, CA. (2018, November).

“Woah… This book is really traumatizing!”: Critical Inquiry and Respectful Play in Students' Responses to Art Spiegelman’s Maus.
Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Palm Desert, CA. (2018, November).

“Breaking Gender Expectations as a Whole”: Exploring Adolescents’ Critical Rewriting of a Trans YA Novel.
Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY. (2018, April).

Gender is like an Ocean: Exploring All-Gender Identity in Response to a Young Adult Novel. Alternative session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY. (2018, April).

Simon, R., Evis, S.,Walkland, T., * hicks, b.l,, *Baer, P., & *Gallagher, B. (April, 2018). Gender is like an Ocean. Workshop presented at the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity’s 4th Annual Ontario Educators Conference, Toronto, ON.

What counts as participation in participatory research?
Panel on Equity and Ethics in Educational Research at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (2018, February).

Walkland, T., Evis, S., Gallagher, B., hicks, b.l., Simon, R. (2018, February). Gender is Like an Ocean. Screening and workshop at Ontario Education Research Symposium, Toronto, ON.

Making Beautiful Music: Adolescents’ and Teachers’ Collaborative Inquiry into All-Gender Identity and Inclusion. Alternative session presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Tampa, FL. (2017, November).

(Re)writing gender, (re)reading resistance: Middle school students explore all-gender identity, inclusion, and representation through arts-based inquiry. Paper presented at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (2017, February).

Youth literacies, social justice, and arts-based inquiry: Adolescents' and teachers' critical curriculum in response to Maus. Paper presented at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (2016, February).

"In the swell of wandering words": The arts as a vehicle for adolescents’ and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night. Alternative session presented at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (2014, February).