Lalitha Vasudevan
Published Online: May 31, 2010
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Biographical Statement

Lalitha Vasudevan is an Assistant Professor of Technology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She is interested in how youth craft stories, represent themselves, and engage in ways of knowing using different literacies, technologies, and media.  Currently Lalitha is studying education, literacies and media in the lives of court-involved youth using a multimodal storytelling methodology. Her research has been published in Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, E-Learning, Review of Research in Education, and English Education, and she is co-editor of the volume titled, Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (2008, Peter Lang).

Email: lmv2102@columbia.edu