Associate Professor

Field of Study: Teacher Leader Program, National Louis University, Illinois

Member since: 1998

How did you become interested in visual literacy? What do your work involve and how does it intersect with visual literacy?

While working on my doctoral dissertation focused on how early readers use the visual design and art elements in children’s picturebooks for reading response purposes, my chair introduced me to IVLA and how visual literacy and picturebook art and design intersect. I continue to research and view the visual elements of picturebooks, focusing particularly on the the peritextual elements, including the endpapers and cover designs for aesthetic and comprehension purposes.

What are you currently reading/writing/watching/listening to/ and/or curious about?

I’m currently reading A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman and Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social and Spritual Perspectives edited by Ruth Richards

What does the term ‘visual literacy’ mean to you?

Being visually literate is having the ability to read and interpret visuals and the ability to communicate visually for meaning making, aesthetic and creative purposes.

Website address:

Academic profile page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=y1f5EXQAAAAJ and www.creativemomentsstudio.com