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Refereed Journal Articles

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Situated speculation: A cross-case analysis of youths’ processes of
composing civic futures.

Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1-26, September 2025

Authors: Alex Corbitt, Ankhi Thakurta

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Liminal play: Coauthoring narratives through metaleptic, metadramatic, and transludic
interactions

Reading Research Quarterly, 1-17, July 2025

Authors: Alex Corbitt

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Relational bleeding, bending, and diffraction: Brazilian transnational children's transgressive digital play on Roblox

Children & Society, 1-10, April 2025

Authors: Mariana Becker, Alex Corbitt

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The politics of imagination: Dreaming toward justice-oriented civic futures

Voices from the Middle 31(3), 17-20,  2024

Authors: Alex Corbitt

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Locating critical play on Roblox: glitching and (re)placement as methods of public access and transnational belonging

Learning, Media and Technology 1-15, December 2024

Authors: Alex Corbitt, Mariana Becker

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Expanding reader-response: Tracing emergence, nested ontology, and affect across playful activities

Pedagogies: An International Journal 1-17, November 2024

Authors: Alex Corbitt, K. Jones, S. Storm, L. Carter-Stone

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Playing with identities: Negotiating coauthorship and role-playing interactions across game and metagame talk

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Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity

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Playing toward multiplicity: Disorienting intra-actions with materials and learning in an escape room

Digital Culture & Education 14(5), December 2023

Authors: Ali Blake, Melita Morales, Jon Wargo, Alex Corbitt

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Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula

English Teaching: Practice & Critique 22(2), April 2023

Authors: Karis Jones, Scott Storm, Alex Corbitt

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Humanizing Horror:

Rereading Monstrosity in Popular Literature

The English Journal 112(2):85-92, November 2022

Authors: Karis Jones, Alex CorbittScott Storm

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Fabricating response: Preservice elementary teachers remediating response to The Circuit through 3D printing and design

Curriculum Inquiry, December 2022

Authors: Jon M. Wargo, Melita Morales, Alex Corbitt

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Sounding escape: examining the sonic contours of play and story in The Author’s Enigma

Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2022

Authors: Jon M. Wargo, Melita Morales, Ali R. Blake, Alex Corbitt, Joseph Madres

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Encountering Unnatural E-Literature: Tracing Interpretation and Relationality Across Multimodal Response and Digital Annotation

English in Education 56(4), June 2021

Authors: Alex Corbitt, Jon M. Wargo, Clare O'Connor

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Revising Resistance: A Step Toward Student-Centered Activism.

Voices from the Middle 27(2): 28-31, December 2019

Authors: Alex Corbitt

Book Chapters

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More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors: A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult Literature 

Varian Johnson: Discovering the Mysteries of our Past through The Parker Inheritance - pages 67-72

Author: Alex Corbitt

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Already Readers and Writers: Honoring Students' Rights to Read and Write in the Middle Grade Classroom

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The Ethics of Digital Literacy: Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels

Moving beyond Troll Rhetoric and Facilitating Productive Online Discourse

Authors: Priscilla Thomas, Alex Corbitt

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Unsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform

Pedagogies of Resistance: Reflecting on the Successes and Challenges of Humanizing Classrooms in a Time of Standardization and Accountability

Authors: Matthew Homrich-Knieling, Alex Corbitt

Invited Reviews & Book Contributions

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Literacies Before Technologies: Making Digital Tools Matter for Middle Grades Learners

Contribution - pages 138-140

Alex Corbitt

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Elevating Equity and Justice: Ten U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know

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Continuing the Journey: Becoming a Better Teacher of Literature and Informational Texts

Contribution - pages 38-39

Alex Corbitt

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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

Review in English Journal

Alex Corbitt

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