Scott Storm
@scottstorm.bsky.social
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 I'm featured in NCTE's Council Chronicle. Check out Carly Berwick's fantastic article about how engaging with multimodal texts enhances students' literary understanding! #NCTE #Literacies Read the article here: publicationsncte.org/content/jour...
Fandom Transformation Projects invite youth to create multimedia artifacts to move pop culture communities toward justice. Learn from @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social about using these projects in your own teaching context. Register for our Monday webinar: https://bit.ly/4vgAGYc
Seven of my incredible students, all of whom are student teaching, have an awesome article in ILA's Literacy Today magazine this month. Check out their reflections on disciplinary literacies and social justice. #literacies @ilatoday.bsky.social Read the full issue here: tinyurl.com/2nptpj3n
Check out this amazing article by doctoral candidate Tempestt Johnson about the literacy practices of majorette dancers in marching bands! See how majorette dance is disciplinary literacy and liberation. In ILA's Literacy Today magazine this month. #literacies @ilatoday.bsky.social
Meet the guest editor of the latest Literacy Today magazine issue: Scott Storm, assistant professor of literacy in the University at Albany School of Education! 🎓 In his opening address to readers, Scott shares his thoughts on shaping the direction of this issue: buff.ly/KmPYKHB
Check out this amazing article from @thescholarlysewist.bsky.social in the Literacy Today magazine. Awesome work about knowledge-production in activist artisan communities! #literacies @ilatoday.bsky.social
Excited to announce that the new issue of ILA's Literacy Today Magazine is out! Honored to share space with this amazing group of scholars writing about expanding disciplinary literacies for social justice! #literacies tinyurl.com/2nptpj3n
Literacy Today, October, November, December 2025
Members: Sign in to read about hot topics in the field and how they relate to high-quality literacy instruction.
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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.
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.
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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!
Interested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies
A6: 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
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo agoQ6: 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
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo agoQ5: 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
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo agoQ4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
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
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo agoQ3: 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
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo agoQ2: 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
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo agoQ1: 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
Many 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....
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Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...
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Ready 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 🔥🔥🔥
sr_toliver@srtoliver.bsky.social · last yr.I’ve never done a “graphical abstract” for a paper before, but this is one for an article (Confronting Colonial Control: Afrofuturist Literacy Stances Versus Book Bans in the Battle for Spacetime) that will come out soon in RRQ (Reading Research Quarterly)!
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
From Superheroes to Taylor Swift: Using Students’ Passions to Ignite Learning
By inviting students to dissect the texts they love—from music lyrics to horror films—teachers are unlocking deeper engagement and critical literacy skills.
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Next 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!
Thrilled 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!
I'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!
Creating 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
