Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research
Professor, Graduate Faculty

Contact Information
Room: A102
Phone: 613-533-6000 x 77273
Email: rebecca.luce-kapler@queensu.ca
Blog: writingbrains.blogspot.com

Curriculum Vitae


Research Interests:

• Writing processes, pedagogies, and technologies
• E-literature, fiction, and poetry
• Teacher education
• Curriculum theory

Biography

Rebecca Luce-Kapler is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. Her research interests focus on the integral role of literary practices, particularly writing, in the development of human consciousness and identity. This work has contributed to understanding the normative power of cultural forms and the importance of interpretive reading and writing practices for generative learning and teaching. Her most recent SSHRC research involves senior-aged women reading and writing literary memoirs, investigating how literary practices can deepen learning and interpretation of experience. She is author of Writing with, through, and beyond the text: An ecology of language and The gardens where she dreams. She is co-author of Engaging Minds: Changing teaching in complex times.

Current Research Grant

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant, Developing Critical Awareness of Normative Structures: A Study of Senior Learners’ Engagements with Literary Reading and Memoir Writing Practices. Co-researcher, Dennis Sumara. 

Recent Publications

Luce-Kapler, R. (2011). The curriculum of close writing. In D. Stanley & K. Young (Eds.), Contemporary studies in Canadian curriculum: Principles, portraits and practices (48-74). Calgary, AB: Detselig.

Luce-Kapler, R., Catlin, S., Sumara, D., & Kocher, P. (2011). Voicing consciousness: The mind in writing. Changing English, 18, 161-172. doi:  10.108/1358684X.2011.575249

Luce-Kapler, R., Sumara, D., & Iftody, T. (2010). Teaching ethical know-how in New Literary spaces.  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 53(8, April), 536-541.

Luce-Kapler, R. (2009). Serendipity, poetry and inquiry. In M. Prendergast, C. Leggo, P. Sameshima (Eds.), Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the Social Sciences (75-78). Rotterdam, NL: Sense Publishers.

Davis, B., Sumara, D., & Luce-Kapler, R. (2008). Engaging Minds: Learning to Teach in complex times. (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. 

Luce-Kapler, R. (2004). Writing With, Through and Beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Luce-Kapler, R. (2003). The gardens where she dreams. Ottawa, ON: Borealis Press. 

Research Spotlight Wikis support collaborative student writing

Current Students

• Jane Chin
• Marcea Ingersoll
• Lisa Mitchell 
• Michael Lockett
• Angela Pyle

Courses Taught

• CURR 317: Introduction to Teaching English
• CURR 318: Theories of Teaching and Learning English
• EDUC 802: Curriculum Practice and Thought
• EDUC 810: Topics in Literary Education
• EDUC 895: Qualitative Research Methods
• EDUC 910: The Traditions of Curriculum  
• EDUC 911: Contemporary Curriculum Theory