Dr Ehret is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. His academic interests focus on developing social theory toward more affective, material, and embodied understandings of literacy and learning with digital media. His research responds to emerging, global dynamics of sociotechnical change that continue to complicate our emotional experiences of literacy and learning, especially what it means and feels like to be human when our communicative practices are augmented with more-than-human technologies, platforms, and algorithms. Dr Ehret is therefore particularly interested in affective dimensions of learning and literacies in relation to emerging technologies such as extended and virtual reality and artificial intelligence, especially as to how they impact literacy education for adolescents. Dr Ehret’s interest in these areas is equity-driven and includes the co-design of opportunities to learn with emerging technologies alongside communities where such opportunities have been institutionally and systematically constrained.
During his visit Dr Ehret will be hosted by Professor Jennifer Rowsell in the School of Education, they will be collaborating on 'Literacies in Algorithmic Cultures', more information about his research project can be viewed on his IRP profile page.