Holly and Katie are the duo behind the Joyful Literacies blog, (top, from left to right). We are educators, researchers, teachers, and writers. We love developing ideas for secondary English language arts and have compiled our secondary teaching knowledge into our book and our blog. We love talking about curriculum, so if you want to talk to us about joyful literacies pedagogy, let us know through our email at joyful.literacies@gmail.com or follow us for more on our Instagram, @joyful_literacies. If you are interested in reading more of our work, see links/list below!
Holly’s Recent Work
- “Italian Brain Rot and Skibidi Toilets: Students’ Joyful Literacies in an ELA Space” (Riesco & Goering, 2025, English Journal)
- Joyful Literacies in Secondary English Language Arts (NCTE, 2025)
- Situating Literacy in Secondary ELA: Discursive Tensions in Novice Teachers’ Ideological Becoming (Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2024)
- To Feel Like We Belong: Designing ELA Spaces for Joyful Literacies (English Journal, 2024)
- Through the space and time of educational experiences: Examining the chronotopic landscape in New Kid (Study and Scrutiny, 2022)
- Adolescent Realities: Engaging Students in SEL through Young Adult Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
Katie’s Recent Work
- A Primer on Arts Integration: Strategies, Lessons, and Collective Wisdom of Teacher Leaders (Information Age Publishing, 2023)
- Arts integrated historical empathy: Preservice teachers’ engagement with pluralistic lived experiences and efforts toward instructional application (Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023)
- Back to “I”: Recasting Students and Teachers as Problem-Explorers through Podcasting (English Journal, 2022)
- Heroes in The Middle: Learning to Swim in a Sea of Talk: Leveraging Feedback for Metacognitive Awareness in Discussions (Voices in the Middle, 2022)
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