Kudos: Lewis Ellison to speak at visual literacies symposium at San Diego State University

Tisha Lewis Ellison, an associate professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, is one of three keynote speakers for the Center for Visual Literacies’ Women of Color’s Voices on Visual Research Methods in Education Symposium at San Diego State University on Sept. 24.

Lewis Ellison’s talk, “Humanizing one Black Family’s Images, Stories, and Practices: Using Photo-elicitation as a Visual and Multimodal Research Method,” will focus on how photo-elicitation interviews (PEI) with a black father and his children helped to evoke deeper meaning and discussions about the humanizing images, stories, and familial practices in their home. Lewis Ellison argues that PEI employs a different standard of storying to tell positive stories of black males and humanize relationships and practices with black fathers and their children, thus emphasizing the importance of qualitative educational research for justice.