Olivia G. Stewart, PhD
Dr. Olivia G. Stewart is currently an Assistant Professor of Literacy at St. John's University in the Department of Education Specialties in Queens, NY. There, she works with PhD and Master's students with diverse backgrounds and interests.
Dr. Stewart received her PhD in the Learning, Literacies, and Technologies Program at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University where she predominantly studied digital-age literacy practices and multimodal writing. Her previous degrees are from University of Arizona where she majored in Secondary Education in English with a minor in Spanish Education and Arizona State University where she earned a Master's Degree in Education in Curriculum and Instruction in Language and Literacy. There, she took a special interest in digital literacy and focused a large amount of her coursework studying how technology can be used to enhance learning, which she brought with her into her PhD.
Dr. Stewart's research interests are in digital media in the classroom, multiliteracies, and multimodal authoring paths, particularly for academically marginalized students. Her dissertation study reflected these interests, focusing on how students used three digital media platforms as alternative authoring paths. In doing so, she examined what counts as writing (and more broadly literacies) and to whom, and what this means for power dynamics in the classroom. Her current research continues these explorations while also examining how online courses can become more humanized to enhance learning as well as how to bring criticality into pre-service education courses.
She has worked with many diverse populations of students both in teaching positions and in employment situations. Because of this, she has been faced with the challenges of helping various kinds of learners find unique ways to succeed, and these are the kinds of environments in which she hopes to enact change.
Dr. Stewart received her PhD in the Learning, Literacies, and Technologies Program at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University where she predominantly studied digital-age literacy practices and multimodal writing. Her previous degrees are from University of Arizona where she majored in Secondary Education in English with a minor in Spanish Education and Arizona State University where she earned a Master's Degree in Education in Curriculum and Instruction in Language and Literacy. There, she took a special interest in digital literacy and focused a large amount of her coursework studying how technology can be used to enhance learning, which she brought with her into her PhD.
Dr. Stewart's research interests are in digital media in the classroom, multiliteracies, and multimodal authoring paths, particularly for academically marginalized students. Her dissertation study reflected these interests, focusing on how students used three digital media platforms as alternative authoring paths. In doing so, she examined what counts as writing (and more broadly literacies) and to whom, and what this means for power dynamics in the classroom. Her current research continues these explorations while also examining how online courses can become more humanized to enhance learning as well as how to bring criticality into pre-service education courses.
She has worked with many diverse populations of students both in teaching positions and in employment situations. Because of this, she has been faced with the challenges of helping various kinds of learners find unique ways to succeed, and these are the kinds of environments in which she hopes to enact change.
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