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Professional Background

Assistant Professor of Technology and Education

Educational Background

B.A. in Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. in Education, University of Pennsylvania

Scholarly Interests
Adolescent Literacies; Media and technologies for storytelling; Race/ethnicity and gender in education; Deconstructing the 'School-to-prison' pipeline

Selected Publications
Books

Hill, M.L. & Vasudevan, L. (2008). Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility. New York: Peter Lang.

Articles

Vasudevan, L. (2009). Performing new geographies of teaching and learning. English Education. 41(4), 356-374.

Vasudevan, L. & Campano, G. (2009). The social production of adolescent risk and the promise of adolescent literacies. Review of Research in Education. 33(1), 310-353.

Gordon, E., McKibbin, K., Vasudevan, L., & Vinz, R. (2007). Writing Out of the Unexpected: Narrative Inquiry and The Weight of Small Moments. English Education. 39(4), 326-351.

Vasudevan, L. (2006). Looking for Angels: Knowing adolescents by engaging with their multimodal literacy practices. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 50(4), 252-256.

Vasudevan, L. (2006). Making known differently: Engaging visual modalities as spaces to author new selves. E-Learning, 3(2). Available: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_2.asp

Vasudevan, L. (2006). "I hope someone learns from my story": Interviewing student inmates. Teachers and Writers Magazine.

Vasudevan, L. (2005). Review: Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education. 3(3), Available: http://www.urbanedjournal.org/reviews/breview0019.html

Chapters

Leander, K. & Vasudevan, L. (2009). Multimodality and mobile culture. In C. Jewitt (Ed.) Handbook of multimodal analysis. (pp. 127-139). London: Routledge.

Vasudevan, L. & Hill, M.L. (2008). Moving beyond dichotomies of media engagement in education: An introduction. In M.L. Hill & L. Vasudevan (Eds.) Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (pp. 1-12). New York: Peter Lang.

Vasudevan, L. (2008). "A picture can do things words can't:" Transforming representations in literacy research. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, & Heath, S.B. (Eds.), Handbook of research on teaching literacy through the visual and communicative arts, volume 2. (pp. 187-194). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Schultz, K., Vasudevan, L., & Throop, R. (2007). Adolescent Literacy in a Global Society. In B. Guzzetti (Ed.), Literacy for the New Millenium: Adolescent Literacy (pp. 12-36). Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood.



Lalitha Vasudevan

Lalitha M Vasudevan

Assistant Professor of Technology and Education

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