The MTSU Literacy Studies Ph.D. Program announces the
11th Annual MTSU Literacy Research Conference

February 24, 2024 at the MTSU College of Education in Murfreesboro, TN

 

REGISTRATION is now CLOSED.

 

  • Conference Date/Time:  Saturday, February 24, 2024 (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) 
  • Conference Rate: $45.00
  • Registration is now Closed.

This conference is for students and established scholars to present their research related to literacy in a supportive and collegial atmosphere. We invite researchers and practitioners from various disciplines (e.g., education, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience) to attend and participate. We encourage presentations of original literacy research and we are especially interested in literacy research that helps bridge research to practice in education. 

Art GraesserKeynote Speaker:  Art Graesser, Ph.D. 

"Conversations with computer agents can help adults comprehend difficult material: A fusion of psychology, AI, education, and linguistics"

Art Graesser is emeritus professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, USA, as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Oxford, England. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego.  His research interests include question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, reading, inference generation, conversation, problem solving, memory, emotions, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. He served as editor of the journal Discourse Processes (1996–2005) and Journal of Educational Psychology (2009-2014), as well as presidents of 4 societies, including Society for Te