El Instituto de Lingüística de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Buenos Aires) tiene el agrado de invitarlos a la conferencia que la profesora Mary Jane Curry (University of Rochester, EE. UU.) dictará el próximo lunes 19 de mayo a las 16:00 horas sobre el tema “Strategies and tactics in academic knowledge production by multilingual scholars”. La conferencia tendrá lugar en la sede del Instituto, y será de acceso libre y gratuito.
Resumen
This research talk will report on findings from a decade-long longitudinal ethnographic study of 50 multilingual scholars of psychology and education located in four European countries (Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Slovakia) and their academic publishing activities. It will contextualize the global pressure to publish in high-status, indexed journals (ISI) then present key findings from the research, conducted jointly with Dr. Theresa Lillis of the Open Univeristy, UK. Some of the key findings to be discussed include: scholars' maintenance of a multilingual publishing agenda for multiple communities (audiences); the ways that "literacy brokers" can support scholars' publishing; the orientations of different types of literacy brokers to language and writing; the role of participation in academic research networks; and the controversial practice of "equivalent" or "dual" publishing. deCerteau's notions of 'strategies' and 'tactics' provide the theoretical framework for the presentation of these findings. Discussion of the longitudinal "text-ethnographic" research methodology we have developed will also be woven into the talk.
Nota biográfica
La Dra. Mary Jane Curry es Associate Professor en el Department of Teaching and Curriculum perteneciente a la Warner Graduate School of Education de la University of Rochester, New York. Sus áreas de interés son la escritura académica en segunda lengua, la producción de conocimiento y la publicación científica, la alfabetización académica y el acceso a la educación superior y los métodos cualitativos de investigación. Es coautora de A Scholar's Guide to Getting Published in English: Critical Choices and Practical Strategies (Multilingual Matters, 2013), Academic Writing in a Global Context: The Politics and Practices of Publishing in English (Routledge, 2010) y Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education (Routledge, 2002). Ha publicado además numerosos artículos en revistas, y se desempeñó como coeditora del libro Language, literacy, and learning in STEM Education: Research methods and perspectives from applied linguistics (en prensa, John Benjamins). Actualmente reside en Chile, donde trabaja como Fulbright visiting scholar.
Más información: https://www.warner.rochester.edu/facultystaff/curry/