Mary Kalantzis

Mary Kalantzis is a Research Professor in the Department of Education, Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D from Macquarie University. Over her career, she has co-authored many books and other publications with Bill Cope. Together they have explored the potential of technology to meet pedagogical aims. Her scholarly interests focus on the nature of communication in the digital age, particularly multimodal meaning. Her work has broadened an understanding of what counts as literacy and how to make meaning through a variety of modalities (text, image, space, object, body, sound, and speech). Some of her works includes the following:

• Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2024). A multimodal grammar of artificial intelligence: Measuring the gains and losses in generative AI. Multimodality & Society, 4(2), 123-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795231221699

• Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2023). Multiliteracies: Life of an idea. International Journal of Literacies, 30(2), 17-89. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/CGP/v30i02/17-89

• Kalantzis, M., Cope, B., Chan, E., & Dalley-Trim, L. (2016). Literacies (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

• Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2017). e-Learning Ecologies: Principles for New Learning and Assessment. Routledge.

• Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2009). “Multiliteracies”: New literacies, new learning. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 4(3), 164–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15544800903076044

Video:

• Multiliteracies

Websites:

• Google Scholar

• New Learning Online

• University Website