Literate Activity: Perspectives on Textual Practices in the World

Literate Activity: Perspectives on Textual Practices in the World publishes innovative scholarship that reflects the complexities of how people create, use, and act-with texts across lifeworlds. We envision Literate Activity as an accessible space that considers “scholarship” widely and encourages submissions from individuals from various standpoints around academia. We aim to demystify the review process, support new authors through the process of publication, and foster exciting transdisciplinary conversations about textual activity.

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Current Issue

Volume 1, Issue 1, 2026

Editors’ Introduction

Keeping Complexity Alive: Toward More Capacious Moves for Conceptualizing, Studying, and Representing What People Do with Texts
Ryan Ware, Bruce Kovanen, and Kevin Roozen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.01

Retrospective Article

Research Articles

Between Paper and Flesh: Semiotic and Performative Work of Artists’ Books
Sojin Cho
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.03
Composing Science: Everyday Genres and the Power of Literate Activity
Sue Hum, Jamie Crosswhite, and Briana Hauff Salas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.05
The Work of Reading: An Institutional Ethnography of a Writing in the Disciplines Course
Melanie Doyle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.06

Scenes

Writing that Sticks: A Scene of Collaborative Literacy
Karla J. Murphy and Chelsie Schlesinger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.07
Literacy in Keeping a To-Do List: A Mundane Autoethnography
CJ Wasson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.08
Autopsy of a Breakup: The Matter of Love and Loss
Christine Ochs-Naderer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/LIT-J.2026.1.1.09

Literate Activity is published by the WAC Clearinghouse. Copyright © is held by the authors and editors of the publications in the journal. Works in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 United States License.

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