Karis Jones Ph.D.
@karismjones.bsky.social
Educator acafan activist & Assistant Prof of ELA Education || Baylor University || Exec @writinglit #literacies 💫📚💻|| ttrpg & gaming || karisjonesphd.com
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It’s here: “Fandoms in the Classroom” now in print! @scottstorm.bsky.social and I are excited to reveal that our foreword was written by none other than @ebonyteach.bsky.social — we are so grateful to you and excited to be in conversation about fandoms & classrooms! #literacies #newrelease #EduSky
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January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Our SIG is still accepting nominations for the Steve Witte Lifetime Achievement Award! Nominations are due Jan 23rd. 👇
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Our SIG is still accepting nominations for the Steve Witte Lifetime Achievement Award! Nominations are due Jan 23rd. 👇
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Want to recognize the phenomenal writing and literacies work of a graduate student? Nominate them for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! Nominations are due Jan. 23rd. See the call below.👇
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Want to recognize the phenomenal writing and literacies work of a graduate student? Nominate them for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! Nominations are due Jan. 23rd. See the call below.👇
If you’re wondering how disciplinary #literacies could be more joyful, we’d love to share this piece with you. Be prepared for some playful shenanigans!
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.
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
If you’re wondering how disciplinary #literacies could be more joyful, we’d love to share this piece with you. Be prepared for some playful shenanigans!
I love @charleswlogan.bsky.social’s suggestions of activities that can help educators and their students attend to the language of educational technology!
I took Tucker’s piece as an inspiration for my own post for the Civics of Technology and applying the Baldwin Test to investigate claims about educational technology:
Applying the Baldwin Test to Ed-Tech — Civics of Technology
In this post, Charles Logan argues that educators can apply the Baldwin Test to Ed-Tech.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I love @charleswlogan.bsky.social’s suggestions of activities that can help educators and their students attend to the language of educational technology!
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Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
kappanonline.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:
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When @danhf.bsky.social shared with me his idea for a special issue on The Dark Fantastic, I was surprised, honored & (truly) shy about it all.
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
SFFTV 18.3 (a special issue on the Dark Fantastic guest-edited by S.R. Toliver and Autumn A. Griffin) is now live! This is a special one (including SFFTV's first venture into creative praxis).
TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
When @danhf.bsky.social shared with me his idea for a special issue on The Dark Fantastic, I was surprised, honored & (truly) shy about it all.
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
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Calling all literacy and ELA leaders (department chairs, supervisors, coaches, and more)!
Submit a conference proposal exploring the intersection of “literacy” and “English” in our field. What does it mean to be a literacy leader and/or an English leader? #CEL26 #NCTE26
ncte.org/groups/cel/2...
Submit a conference proposal exploring the intersection of “literacy” and “English” in our field. What does it mean to be a literacy leader and/or an English leader? #CEL26 #NCTE26
ncte.org/groups/cel/2...
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Calling all literacy and ELA leaders (department chairs, supervisors, coaches, and more)!
Submit a conference proposal exploring the intersection of “literacy” and “English” in our field. What does it mean to be a literacy leader and/or an English leader? #CEL26 #NCTE26
ncte.org/groups/cel/2...
Submit a conference proposal exploring the intersection of “literacy” and “English” in our field. What does it mean to be a literacy leader and/or an English leader? #CEL26 #NCTE26
ncte.org/groups/cel/2...
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#literacies folks, my institution is hiring for Fall 2026. Share widely. Very much an early reading position focused on STR/SoR. We're a very small program and teaching focused. Happy to connect before I'm told I'm on the hiring committee and HR tells me I can't talk to anyone.
Assistant Professor in Teacher Education — Literacy Emphasis (Fall 2026)
The Teacher Education Department within the Dreeben School of Education invites full-time faculty candidates for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Teacher Education-Literacy Emphasis for fall 2026. ...
jobs.uiw.edu
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#literacies folks, my institution is hiring for Fall 2026. Share widely. Very much an early reading position focused on STR/SoR. We're a very small program and teaching focused. Happy to connect before I'm told I'm on the hiring committee and HR tells me I can't talk to anyone.
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We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..."
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December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Q2: Where are you finding joy to sustain you personally and professionally? #literacies
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Q2: Where are you finding joy to sustain you personally and professionally? #literacies
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Two years in the making, and this co-edited special issue based on Ebony Thomas’ (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) amazing book is finally published!
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
Contents | Science Fiction Film & Television 18, 3
In her book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (2019), Ebony Elizabeth Thomas explains that privileging marginalized characters in her examination of the fantastic illustrates how “race and the imagination ...
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Two years in the making, and this co-edited special issue based on Ebony Thomas’ (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) amazing book is finally published!
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
What a pleasure to have this out in the world! Read our editorial to learn about this open access issue featuring research re: the use of digital texts in classrooms!
Check out our guest editors’ @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, and @rabani.bsky.social editorial introduction to our new special issue series, outlining “The Complexities of Teaching with Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators”!
Editorial: The Complexities of Teaching With Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators – CITE Journal
citejournal.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
What a pleasure to have this out in the world! Read our editorial to learn about this open access issue featuring research re: the use of digital texts in classrooms!
PhD students, check out this free webinar with my mentor Dr. Jayne Lammers! calendar.app.google/jR4oZSneUeFA...
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
PhD students, check out this free webinar with my mentor Dr. Jayne Lammers! calendar.app.google/jR4oZSneUeFA...
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How local activism to make inequities visible can change the public conversation about school funding write @karismjones.bsky.social of @baylor.bsky.social and Jyl Josephson and Nooreen Fatima of Rutgers University-Newark
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
How local activism to make inequities visible can change the public conversation about school funding | USAPP
This funding change was driven by local activists’ ability to foreground children and their needs to educational officials.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
How local activism to make inequities visible can change the public conversation about school funding write @karismjones.bsky.social of @baylor.bsky.social and Jyl Josephson and Nooreen Fatima of Rutgers University-Newark
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education – CITE Journal
citejournal.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
So exciting for this to roll out as our first articles from the special issue are released! Read the first two pieces here: citejournal.org/category/eng...
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
So exciting for this to roll out as our first articles from the special issue are released! Read the first two pieces here: citejournal.org/category/eng...
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For 3 years, they have been building this work with an incredible network of educators and researchers, curating mentor texts, tools, class resources, and academic research on digital media. Our forthcoming CITE special issue, “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them,” highlights this scholarship.
#HackYourStack Database | Notion
#HackYourStack is a crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, and academic research focused on digital media. Below you’ll find a database of genres, forms, and mediums you can access...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
For 3 years, they have been building this work with an incredible network of educators and researchers, curating mentor texts, tools, class resources, and academic research on digital media. Our forthcoming CITE special issue, “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them,” highlights this scholarship.
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It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
Happy to share that our RRQ article is out theorizing interactivity: "The Reader‐Player Interactivity Framework: How Do Readers Navigate Diverse Varieties of Narrative Texts?"
~Read here or listen to our companion podcast with @humanrestorationproject.org ~
dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
~Read here or listen to our companion podcast with @humanrestorationproject.org ~
dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy to share that our RRQ article is out theorizing interactivity: "The Reader‐Player Interactivity Framework: How Do Readers Navigate Diverse Varieties of Narrative Texts?"
~Read here or listen to our companion podcast with @humanrestorationproject.org ~
dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
~Read here or listen to our companion podcast with @humanrestorationproject.org ~
dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
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Thrilled 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....
<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library
The Reader–Player Interactivity Framework offers a cross-disciplinary model to understand narrative interactivity.
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thrilled 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....
Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
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Another reminder that the anti-censorship work is happening at #NCTE2025!
@hcodymiller.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
@freadomfighters.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@hcodymiller.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
@freadomfighters.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Headed to #NCTE2025? This doc has the sessions related to censorship! The bolded sessions feature members from @ncte.org's Committee Against Censorship.
The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.
The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.
Censorship related sessions - NCTE Convention 2025
Thursday 11:30-12:45 Intellectual Freedom Dreams Deferred: Banned in the "Blue(ish) States" Room 203 2:30 English/ELA Department Chairs Facing Tough Topics Together Room 402 Friday 9:30a-11a The...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Another reminder that the anti-censorship work is happening at #NCTE2025!
@hcodymiller.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
@freadomfighters.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
@hcodymiller.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
@freadomfighters.bsky.social
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Join us to preview work from the upcoming @cite-ela.bsky.social special issue “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them” #literacies
If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Join us to preview work from the upcoming @cite-ela.bsky.social special issue “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them” #literacies
Members of the Critical Gaming #Literacies study group will be leading a game breakout tomorrow at #NCTE2025! You’ll have the opportunity to create a complex and capable “troublemaker” with us. One of my favorite sessions every year, organized by #MakersInTheMiddle by @alexcorbitt.bsky.social !
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Members of the Critical Gaming #Literacies study group will be leading a game breakout tomorrow at #NCTE2025! You’ll have the opportunity to create a complex and capable “troublemaker” with us. One of my favorite sessions every year, organized by #MakersInTheMiddle by @alexcorbitt.bsky.social !