Scott Storm
Assistant Professor of Literacy in a School of Education | Former English teacher who designed and sustained public high schools | Social Justice Pedagogies | Adolescent Literacies | Critical Aesthetics | Machine Learning | Nerd | (he/him) 🏳️🌈
- Excited to share that @karismjones.bsky.social and I just had this fun article published about people doing playful literary analyses of the novel Dracula. Wait, a Gothic novel from 1897 can be humorous today? Yep. Some real shenanigans going on here! #literacies DM me for a copy if you need access.
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- I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
- Reposted by Scott StormThrilled to share this new pub! In this article, my brilliant coauthors and I explore a framework for narrative activity in a variety of texts. It’s open access- please read, share, and tell me what you think! doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
- Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
- Reposted by Scott StormInterested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies
- Reposted by Scott StormA6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
- A6: I’m thinking about what it would look like to bring pre-service teachers to fandom-focused literacy classrooms. College and high school students collaboratively investigating, analyzing, and writing about fandoms together could be a next frontier to explore! #literacies
- Q6: How do you envision inviting youth #literacies into classroom spaces? What would you like to try?
- A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies
- Q5: An issue we've seen with integrating youth fandom #literacies into educational spaces is that these practices get co-opted or deadened. Have you seen this? How do we avoid these issues?
- A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies
- A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies
- Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
- A2: I’m a Dungeons & Dragons fan, but I wasn’t one until my high school students taught me how to play! I got to see how D&D can be used to imagine socially just worlds free from hate. My students helped show me the power of words and story to work to change the fabric of our realities. #literacies
- Q2: In our book, we define fandoms as "communities of interested readers who engage with a particular text, text set, or media franchise." How have your own fandom experiences shaped your personal #literacies learning?
- A1: Inspired by many scholars! @amystorn.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @anna-phd.bsky.social @dlowliteracy.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @aleciamarie.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @alexcorbitt.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social Many more! #literacies
- Q1: This community has a long history of studying youth #literacies in out-of-school spaces. What #literacies scholarship or scholar inspires you?
- Greetings Literacies Chat! I’m Scott Storm (he/him). I taught high school English for 15 years in urban public schools—including one I helped to found! I’m now an assistant professor of literacy in the School of Education at the University at Albany, SUNY. All opinions my own. #literacies
- #literacies chat starting now! So excited!
- Reposted by Scott StormMany thanks to CHOICE Magazine and A.L. Hsu for this review of our book in their July 2025 issue! We hope this is a compelling summer read for educators looking to disrupt their classrooms this fall 🔥 💻 💭 #literacies @scottstorm.bsky.social
- I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
- Reposted by Scott StormReady for our next #literacies chat? Please join us in one week for our chat where we consider “Queer and Trans-Affirming #literacies: Context, Discomfort, Agency” hosted by Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton (@sashelton.bsky.social)!
- Can't wait to read this article in Reading Research Quarterly by @srtoliver.bsky.social The graphical abstract is 🔥🔥🔥
- Love this Edutopia article by @cberwick.bsky.social on igniting student passions! Sage quotes from @amystorn.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social. Examples from ELA teachers using fandoms! Nice shout out for @karismjones.bsky.social & my book! #literacies #iteachEnglish tinyurl.com/2s4r66rs
- Reposted by Scott StormNext book tour stop: #AERA2025! Thanks to everyone who came to one of our fandom media presentations or stopped by the booth to get a book signed by me and @scottstorm.bsky.social We love hearing from readers about ways they are dreaming about reimagining their literacy learning classrooms!
- Reposted by Scott StormThrilled to have the hard copy of this fantastic book from @karismjones.bsky.social & @scottstorm.bsky.social! Though I’m already very familiar with their scholarship, reading how they’ve framed their work for classroom Ts is inspiring. A fantastic example of research🤝practice. Highly recommend!
- Reposted by Scott StormI'm so excited to read this new book by @scottstorm.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social! It combines my love of fandom with my love of ELA!
- Reposted by Scott StormCreating intersections between Ss interests & complex disciplinary content always reminds me how much we underestimate teens. Just had a Ss submit an 8-minute video essay using Freud, Lacan, & Jung to interpret Donnie Darko. Both the content & use of form were 🔥. #literacies #edusky #academicsky
- Excited my new book written with @karismjones.bsky.social is in print!! It shows how to design classrooms that are fun and intellectual by drawing on strengths of fan communities. Bring some Comic Con magic to your classroom! Request that your library get copies! #literacies #edusky #ITeachEnglish
- Reposted by Scott StormFun prompt: dreaming up proposal ideas about dreaming. After #ncte24, what would you like to see at #ncte25 and/or what are you dreaming up? Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/
- Reposted by Scott StormFriday is the deadline to apply for the #NCTE25 proposal reviewer and coach team: ncte.org/events/2025-...
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- Check out @alexcorbitt.bsky.social and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥
- New publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y
- Reposted by Scott StormNew publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y
- On my way to the Literacy Research Association’s conference! I am jumping with excitement like a muppet!! Can’t wait to see everyone! Get in touch if you will be there. #Literacies #LRA2024
- Reposted by Scott StormCongratulations, again, @scottstorm.bsky.social! Check out Aesthetic #Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies today!
- Reposted by Scott StormI'm so excited that #literacies folks have found each other here - I hope that the conversations continue because we are going to need each other for the fights ahead
- Reposted by Scott StormOur middle level arts-based activism session at NCTE! Shoutout to Reka Barton, Casey Pennington, and Sarah Bonner for facilitating!! #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle
- Reposted by Scott StormI'm beyond honored and grateful to have received the #NCTE2024 National Intellectual Freedom Award this year! I'm thankful to be in coalition with so many awesome educators (including @sheathescholar.bsky.social and @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social here) fighting book banning and fascism!
- Reposted by Scott Storm**Obligatory conference afterglow post** Conferences are about two things: people and ideas. This is true whether you’re listening to a comedian deliver a keynote, presenting the latest in #literacies research with friends, or accidentally closing down the hotel bar. Thanks for the mems, #NCTE24!
- Reposted by Scott StormCongrats, @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE Promising Researcher Award! Well deserved, my friend!
- Excited to be facilitating a session at #NCTE24 today about aesthetics, critical theory, and close reading literature for social justice! There will be relay races using literary theory! There will be abstract artistic mappings of literary elements! Come be Literarians with us! #literacies #NCTE
- It’s conference season for #literacies folks!! If you are going to #NCTE get in touch and let’s hang out! I’m giving a few fun talks with brilliant, generous, and kind teacher-scholars! Come check it out. #NCTE24
- Reposted by Scott StormSo excited to be shipping up to Boston tomorrow for #NCTE24! My sessions this year are reflective of my ongoing journey to explore the intersections between the rich tradition of literary studies and the dynamic worlds of critical, digital, and multimodal #literacies. Come by! #EduSky #academicsky
- This was such a fun project! I was the English teacher for the high school students featured here, and we all had a blast during this process! My students said it was “life changing” to be fellow scholars alongside the incredible professors in this group. #YouthAreScholars #literacies
- Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
- Reposted by Scott Storm#NCTE2024 who wants to think together about humor as a critical literacy practice? Join myself & Angel Ky, @scottstorm.bsky.social, and @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on Sunday at 9am. We’ll be building on David Low’s framework (pictured below, check it out!) #NCTE24
- Reposted by Scott StormMy first bluesky post! If you are going to the NCTE Annual Convention in Boston and you are interested in translanguaging and literacy, please come to our sessions :)! #translanguaging #bilingualed #literacy
- Who's excited for #NCTE later this week? Feeling giddy as we get ready to nerd out with our English teacher community!!! #literacies #NCTE2024
- Reposted by Scott StormIf you are new to AERA Open it's one of the only #openaccess jrnls in #education -read the 82 articles published so far this yr on a wide range of topics and using different methodologies at the link below! It's free i.e. no paywall @aeraedresearch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/ERO/curr...
- Reposted by Scott StormMy people! 😭 Finally, a starter pack for us #literacies educators, scholars/theorists, and researchers! Waving at all my close colleagues... so great to see you here! And thanks, @anna-phd.bsky.social, for gathering us!
- About 15 years ago we started the #literacies chat over on the bird app. It provided so many meaningful conversations & connections over the years. This includes some of those people & others in the field. Let me know who else I can add (and follow!) as we work to rebuild here! go.bsky.app/HZLhPrat://did:plc:hg6bc7adtzf6pfw2zw3hdcj7/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laq6ukp5z22o
- Reposted by Scott StormDo you have a book idea centering #queer and #trans studies in #education? @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social and I would love to talk with you about your project! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📖📚🎉
- Reposted by Scott StormJoin the community of Queer & Trans Studies in Education. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/VitwfUtat://did:plc:xodumfnakbsnzqn2hl6fw7z3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lashgegeub2z
- Reposted by Scott StormThanks to @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social for putting together these Education Scholars starter packs! go.bsky.app/BaXvoapat://did:plc:xodumfnakbsnzqn2hl6fw7z3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lavbzt3tsb2o
- Reposted by Scott StormAnyone else going to #NCTE23? Brought my copy of “Restorying YAL” in the hopes that @ebonyteach.bsky.social and team will sign it 😂 ⭐️ 📖
- Reposted by Scott StormGrammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to. The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.
- Reposted by Scott StormAn apt meme making rounds
- Reposted by Scott StormAlex Corbitt, @scottstorm.bsky.social, Laura Carter-Stone and I are glad to share our new article on how playful #literacies practices like cosplay, role-play, and improv theater function as action texts and expand how we think about reader-response. Download here: tandfonline.com/eprint/VEN7STK…
- Reposted by Scott StormWe're here! Please help us share the word! Volume 73 is going Online First now at journals.sagepub.com/home/LRX When the Volume is bundled, we'll start sharing about each of the articles, and we'll launch our public multimedia scholarship initiative in collaboration with @edunowlab.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Scott StormNot to mention LRA Student Outstanding Research Award! Congrats, @scottstorm.bsky.social! It’s exciting to see the Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice journal articles start to go live! Go here for the Online First articles of LRTMP V 73! journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx
- New pub!! Reading is not only about literal meaning but also aesthetic/connotative meanings. I traced how youth talked about aesthetics across text genres. Findings revealed that aesthetics can spread disinformation or work toward socially just futures! #literacies, #edusky tinyurl.com/5br9rj3k
- New pub!! Reading is not only about literal meaning but also aesthetic/connotative meanings. I traced how youth talked about aesthetics across text genres. Findings revealed that aesthetics can spread disinformation or work toward socially just futures! #literacies, #edusky tinyurl.com/5br9rj3k
- Reposted by Scott StormContinuing the Fall 2024 preview tour with the fabulous @scottstorm.bsky.social for our upcoming book “Fandoms in the Classroom” — first New York Comic Con and next New York State Reading Association! Great conversations with audiences about resisting standardization through youth media passions 💡
- What can English educators learn from the writing published in literary studies? What do literary scholars do in their writing anyway? New pub takes up these questions! doi.org/10.1108/ETPC...
- Reposted by Scott StormDr. Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social winning the Student Outstanding Research Award from #LRA 🎉 🥳!! Excited to hear more about his amazing dissertation work at #LRA23 💻💕💯
