William Sewell

Manuscripts Under Review

• Sewell, W. “Burned Out: What Happened to Our Strong, Independent Heroine,
  Katniss Everdeen?” The Lion and the Unicorn.
• Sewell, W. “Learning Transference of Anchored Video Instruction in First-Year
  Composition Courses.” i.e.: inquiry in education.
• Sewell, W. “Withering Katniss: Reading The Hunger Games Trilogy as Gothic
  Literature.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures
• Sewell, W. “Charting the Crichton Formula: An Introduction and Critical Review of Michael Crichton’s Key Works.” Journal of Popular Culture.

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Sewell, W. Character and Ideology in the Crichton Techno-Thriller: The Jurassic
  Park Novels and Late Capitalism.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Kenley, D. & Sewell, W. (2021). Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural
  Studies: An Interview With Alexa Alice Joubin. American Journal of Chinese
  Studies, 28 (2), 115-130.
• Sewell, W. (2021). Navigating Life's "Fun and Games": Pairing Downriver with Lord
  of the Flies. Kansas English Journal, 102(1), 33-42.
• Sewell, W. (2017). When choice is an illusion: Suppression of women in
  William Styron’s “Holocaust’ novel.” Teaching American Literature, 9(1), 103-
  117.
• Sewell, W. (2017). Implementing vocabutoons in the English language
  Arts Classroom. Kansas English Journal, 98(1), 2-9.
• Sewell, W. (2014). Preservice teachers’ literacy strategies preferences: Results of a
  two-year study of content area literacy students. Journal of Content Area
  Reading, 10(1), 119-147.
• Sewell, W. (2013). I write the line: Using multimodal intertextuality and the music
  of Johnny Cash to teach writing in secondary English language arts classes.
  Ohio Journal of English Language Arts, 53(1), 15-22.
• Sewell, W. (2013). All the world's a text: Using multimodal intertextuality to teach
  today's students. The English Record, 63(1), 59-89.
• Sewell, W. (2012). Sailing on the “hope boat”: Chronicles of a maiden voyage in the
  English language arts classroom. Kansas English, 95(1), 143-160.
• Sewell, W. (2011). Making the connections: Using multimodal intertextuality to
  teach challenging texts. Kansas English, 94(2), 81-93.
• Sewell, W. & Denton, S. (2011). Multimodal literacies in the secondary English
  classroom. English Journal, 100(5), 61-65.
• Sewell, W. (2010). Tuning them in with tunes: Connecting composition instruction
  with students’ music interests. Wisconsin English Journal, 52(1), 44-47.
• Sewell, W. (2010). Integrating secondary reading standards and media literacy
  education: Introducing the lie-search presentation. The Journal of Media
  Literacy and Education, 1(2), 141-144.
• Adams, J. & Sewell, W. (2010). Uniting readers: Bringing together pre-service
  teachers and teens through a brown bag book club. Statement: A Journal of the
  Colorado Language Arts Society, 46(2), 14-18.
• Sewell, W. (2009). Creating a public sphere in the secondary language arts
  classroom: Empowering students to think and write critically about outside the
  classroom. The High School Journal, 92(1), 11-21.
• Sewell, W. (March 2008). Entrenched pedagogy: A history of stasis in English
  language arts curriculum. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education,
  15(1), 87-100.
• Sewell, W. (Summer/Fall 2005). Affecting social change: The struggle for educators
  to transform society. The Journal of Educational Foundations, 19(3/4), 5-15.

Journals

• Sewell, W. (2008). John Dewey in the classroom: Jack Black’s approach. Kansas English, 92(2), 127-138.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• Sewell, W. (2019). “Peace at Any Price”: A Marxist Reading of The Chocolate
  War.” In Victor Malo-Juvera & Crag Hill (Eds.), Canonical Young Adult Literature: Criticism & Critique.
• Sewell, W. (2016). Woody and Me: Connecting Millennials to the Literature of the
  Great Depression. In Christian Goering & Lindy Johnson (Eds.),
  Recontextualized: A Framework for Teaching English with Music. Rotterdam,
  NE: Sense Publishing.
• Sewell, W. & Goering, C. Z. (2013). Multimodal Fogerty: Scoring and scaffolding the
  music of CCR to a Vietnam war literature unit. In Thomas M. Kitts (Ed.), Finding
  Fogerty: Interdisciplinary readings of John Fogerty and CCR (pp. 135-147). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Book Reviews

• Sewell, W. (February 2007). A review of Emily Kissner’s Summarizing,
  paraphrasing, and retelling: skills for better reading and writing (Portsmouth,
  NH: Heinemann, 2006). Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 50(5), 426-7.

National Conference Presentations (Refeered) 

• Sewell, W. (2017).  Sing a new song: Helping student recapture their voices and agency through protest music and creative songwriting.  A roundtable presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  St. Louis, MO.
• Sewell, W. (2017).  Teacher education in the digital age.  A roundtable presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  St. Louis, MO.
• Goering, C, Sewell, W. et al.  (2013). Using music to teach English, from A to Jay-Z.  Aworkshop presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference. Boston, MA.
• Sewell, W., & Goering, C.  (2012). Multimodal Fogerty: Furthering the message through research-based instructional strategies.  A panel presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  Las Vegas, NV.
• Sewell, W., Goering, C.  et al. (2011).  Multimodal intertextuality:  Connecting Shakespeare to today’s tech-savvy students.  A panel presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  Chicago, IL.
• Sewell, W.  (2011).  “Content area reading: empowering students to learn.”A roundtable presentation at the International Reading Annual Convention. Orlando, FL.
• Sewell, W., Goering, C.  et al. (2010). Media literacy education:  Anchoring instruction and assessment through music and movies.  A panel presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  Orlando, FL.
• Sewell, W.  (2010). Integrating secondary reading standards and media literacy education: Introducing the lie-search essay.  A poster session presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  Orlando, FL.
• Adams, J., Sewell, W., & McNerney, S.  Secondary English teachers:  Meet Gen m-the multitasking generation.  (2008).  A panel presented at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference.  San Antonio, TX.
• Sewell, W.  (2006).  United we stand:  How interagency cooperation can enhance English education in America’s public schools.  A paper presented at the Academy for Educational Studies Second Annual Conference.  Missouri State University. Springfield, MO.

Regional/State Conference Presentations

• Sewell, W.  (2019).  A soundtrack for democracy: Music as political discourse.  The Missouri Humanities Symposium. Springfield, MO.
• Sewell, W.  (2015).  Pow! Creating engaging vocabulary and concept development activities via “powtoons.”  South Dakota Council of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Sioux Falls, SD.
• Sewell, W.  (2014).  Inspiring logophilia through vocabatooning.  Missouri Write to Learn Conference.  Osage Beach, MO.
• Sewell, W., & Butterfield, D.  (2014).  Enhancing Field Experiences:  Implementing tutoring programs in middle level English education courses to strengthen preservice teacher development.   Missouri Association for Colleges of Teacher Education Fall Conference.  Columbia, MO. 
• Sewell, W.  (2009).  Rockin’ and researchin’:  Using students’ musical interests to facilitate research projects.  A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS. 
• Sewell, W.  (2008).  Never let the truth get in the way of a good story:  Using the lie-search method to spark interest in student research projects.  A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS. 
• Sewell, W.  (2008).  Voices from Siberia, Kansas:  Creating a student-centered classroom.  A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS. 
• Sewell, W.  (2008).  Taming student portfolios:  Creating and managing portfolios for the busy language arts teacher.  A paper presented at the Colorado Language Arts Society.  Denver, CO.
• Sewell, W.  (2007).  Building better books.  A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS. 
• Sewell, W.  (2007).  Assessing portfolios:  Strategies for the busy classroom teacher.  A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS. 
• Sewell, W.  (2006).  Portfolio assessment in the classroom.  A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS.
• Sewell, W.  (2006).  Composing with the man in black:  Using Johnny Cash’s music to teach writing. A paper presented at the Kansas Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference.  Wichita, KS.
• Sewell, W. (2006).  Affecting social change:  The struggle for educators to transform society.  A paper presented at the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society.  Georgia State University.  Atlanta, GA.
• Sewell, W.  (2006).  Teach me, Elmo: Using document cameras to enhance composition instruction.  A paper presented at The Writer’s Conference.  University of Kansas.  Lawrence, KS.