On Life, Literacy, and Lunch: An Interview with Eli Goldblatt.
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| Title: | On Life, Literacy, and Lunch: An Interview with Eli Goldblatt. |
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| Authors: | Asimos, George N.1 |
| Source: | Writing on the Edge. Spring2026, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p8-16. 9p. |
| Subject Terms: | *English teachers, *Literacy education |
| People: | Goldblatt, Eli |
| Abstract: | Eli Goldblatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University, where he spent decades shaping the fields of composition, rhetoric, and community literacy through his teaching and scholarship. Across his career, Goldblatt has been especially attentive to literacy beyond the classroom, in neighborhoods and communities, arguing for an understanding of writing as a relational, situated practice rather than a discrete academic skill. For those who have worked with him, his influence extends well beyond his publications, shaping not only how we think about writing, but how we approach the people and communities with whom that writing is always in conversation. The recording begins awkwardly: uncertain fumbling with a new AIpowered app, a brief negotiation over backup devices and power sources, hesitant confirmation that our conversation will, in fact, be captured. Calibration. Recalibration. We start with catching up. Our formal time together ended just over five years ago, when I defended my dissertation over Zoom in the earliest moments of the COVID pandemic. The project focused on travel and writing, defended at a time when even a trip to the grocery store felt fraught. Now we sit together, unmasked, on an uncommonly beautiful early spring day in the Philadelphia neighborhood that Eli and his wife Wendy, an artist, poet, and educator in her own right, have called home for many years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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