Karis Jones Ph.D.

We’re excited to be launching our “Roll for [Blank]” newsletter featuring gaming resources for educators! Meet our first featured guest @nashb.bsky.social 🤩 😮

Announcing our February #literacies chat, “"Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between ,” hosted by @elpatronhimself.bsky.social on 2/24! We can’t wait to see you there!

Announcing our February #literacies chat, “"Get Over Here!": Gaming, Literacy, and the Victories in Between ,” hosted by @elpatronhimself.bsky.social on 2/24! We can’t wait to see you there!

Kairos is hiring! We have immediate openings for multiple Assistant Editors, who are responsible for collaboratively copy- or design-editing accepted webtexts, wiki entries, and associated media for publication with attention to style, accessibility, readability, and usability.

Leave it to @haymarketbooks.org to meet the moment with free access to some important books! LOVED @silkys13.bsky.social's Unbuild Walls and can't wait to read the others. Thank you Haymarket. Now everyone, get you some!

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Our SIG is still accepting nominations for the Steve Witte Lifetime Achievement Award! Nominations are due Jan 23rd. 👇

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!

I love @charleswlogan.bsky.social’s suggestions of activities that can help educators and their students attend to the language of educational technology!

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.

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:

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! 🖤✨🎬

A blue logo with an image of the Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia. 2026 CEL Annual Convention. Integrated Leadership: Bridging Literacy and English. November 22-24. Philadelphia. CEL, A Constituent Group of NCTE. #CEL26

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

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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.

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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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Ahhh a great series to watch!

Q2: Where are you finding joy to sustain you personally and professionally? #literacies

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 ...

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

Thanks so much, glad to connect!

YAY CONGRATSSSSS!!!

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...

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.

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...

📚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!

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...

#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...

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.

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...

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.
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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 ~

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<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.

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....

Very interesting!

Like and subscribe to @humanrestorationproject.org — they do such great work!