My scholarship asks: What is the relationship between writing and justice in the lives of service and care-workers? And how can students experience just writing instruction across transitions from High School to college to work?
Research about Service and Care-work
I use participatory and ethnographic research methods to value essential workers’ literacies and knowledges. Through this work, I have collaborated with writers who are also high school English teachers, student employees, university janitorial staff, day care providers and parents.
Research about Teaching
I have been collaborating with students to co-lead class workshops based on students’ lived experience. These lessons are designed to center and leverage their literacy experiences and expertise learned outside of the classroom context.
My current project connects transitions from high school and college through dual enrollment. It involves a collaboration between K-12 concurrent enrollment, 2-year, and 4-year colleges to work toward vertical writing alignment that supports all student success.
Sample Publications
Reflections: A Journal of Community Engaged Writing
The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
The Community Literacy Journal
Funding
My research has been supported by The Spencer Education Foundation, the University of Denver Center for Community Engagement to Support Scholarship and Learning, The Faculty Research Fund at DU, and 4-D.
Calley Marotta 