LiteracyResearch
The Literacy Research Association (LRA) is a community of scholars dedicated to promoting research that enriches the knowledge, understanding, and development of lifespan literacies in a multicultural and multilingual world. LRA is committed to ethical research that is rigorous, methodologically diverse, and socially responsible. LRA is dedicated to disseminating such research broadly so as to promote generative theories, informed practices and sound policies. Central to its mission, LRA mentors and supports future generations of literacy scholars.
75th Anniversary LRA 2025 Las Vegas Welcome Video
LRA 2022 Oscar Causey Address
Special Performance by the Clark Atlanta University Drumline at the 74th Annual Conference
74th Annual Conference Theme
LRA 2023 Presidential Address, Doris Walker Dalhouse
LRA 2023 Integrative Research Review Panel
LRA 2023 Dr. Donna Ford
Watch LRA’s Conference Chair, Alfred Tatum, announce LRA’s 73rd Annual Conference!
LRA’s Registration for the 73rd Annual Conference is now live!
2021 LRA Presidential Address
Wag the Dog: A Digital Literacies Narrative, Elizabeth (Betsy) A. Baker, LRA Presidential Address
Writing Beyond "The Four Corners": Adolescent Girls Writing By, In, From, and For Bodies in School
What Does It Mean to Say Coaching is Relational?
Introducing Offlineness: Theorizing (Digital) Literacy Engagements
It's Not About Being Right: Developing Argument Through Debate
Literacies of Refuge: "Pidiendo Posado" as Rituals of Justice
2019 LRA Presidential Address
Civic writing on digital walls
Translingual writing in a linguistically diverse primary classroom
Disciplinary literacy: From infusion to hybridity
Investigating ethics in sociocultural literacy studies
What matter matters? Retaining the critical in new materialist literacy research
Integrative research syntheses as sites of disruption in literacy teacher education
Sociocultural influences and understandings in literacy teacher education
Lessons for leaders on the preparation of literacy educators
Working toward a socially just future in the ELA methods class.