Metaphors We Read By: Movement, Freedom, and Faith Laurence Musgrove Associate Professor of English Saint Xavier University
Research Question How can I help students have more productive relationships with reading and literature?
Visualizing Reading
Student Drawings What happens when you read?
The reader in the text
The text in the reader
The sleeping reader
The happy/sad reader
The secluded reader
The traveling reader
The picturing reader
Reading Metaphors The ways we think and talk about reading is always metaphorical.
Reading as Movement
Five Categories Immersion
Five Categories Immersion Transportation
Five Categories Immersion Transportation Accumulation
Five Categories Immersion Transportation Accumulation Manipulation
Five Categories Immersion Transportation Accumulation Manipulation Transformation
Freedom
Faith
The End of Reading Conceptual embodiment of free and faithful living