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Brady L. Nash 

Brady L. Nash

Email

brady.nash@ufl.edu

About

Dr. Nash, a former English teacher, professional learning specialist, and student advisor, studies critical and culturally sustaining approaches to education, with a focus on secondary language arts and digital literacies. He works closely with K-12 teachers and students on collaborative, critical classroom research. His current work is focused on critically analyzing AI, video games, social media, and the ways that diverse arrays of people construct and understand reality in digital spaces.

Affiliations

  • School of Teaching and Learning

Research Interests

Adolescent Literacy, Critical Literacy, Culturally Sustainable Pedagogy, Curriculum Development, Digital Literacy, Digital Tools in Qualitative Research, Emotion, English Education, Media Literacy, Multiliteracies, Qualitative Research, Sociocultural Perspectives, Sociolinguistics, Teacher Education, Urban Education, Writing

Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
  • M.A., Long Island University
  • M.A., Columbia University
  • B.A., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Activities and Honors

  • Co-Chair, Digital Literacies in Teacher Education Commission, National Council of Teachers of English
  • Association of Literacy Researchers and Educators J. Estill Alexander Future Leaders in Literacy Dissertation of the Year Award, 2022

Selected Grants

“Media Literacy for a Post-Truth Era: How Do Secondary Students Learn to Critically Construct Meaning on the Internet?” Cornerstone Grant Program: Research, Scholarship and Artistry Grant

Role
  • PI
Funding Agency
  • Miami University
Project Period
  • 2023
Award Amount
  • $14,712

“Preservice Teachers Exploring Research and Teaching Through Professional Teaching Conferences.” Miami University Career Collaborative Grant

Role
  • PI
Funding Agency
  • Miami University
Project Period
  • 2023
Award Amount
  • $10,000

“Sociocultural Approaches to Contemporary Digital Literacy: Teachers’ Collaborative Learning in Online Professional Development.”

Role
  • PI
Funding Agency
  • Miami University
Project Period
  • 2023
Award Amount
  • $6,000

Selected Publications

Articles
  • Nash, B. L. (2024). Love and learning in the age of algorithms: How intimate relationships with artificial intelligence may shape epistemology, sociality, and linguistic justice. Reading Research Quarterly. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.549
  • Nash, B. L. (2024). Critical inquiry in (and about) media environments: Examining an asset-based digital reading curriculum. Journal of Literacy Research, 56(2), 133-156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X241244700
  • Nash, B. L. (2024). Emotion, stimulation, habit, and criticality: Learning from teachers’ multifaceted conceptions of digital reading. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 56(1), 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2023.2264979
  • Nash, B. L. (2024). Technology, oppression, and resistance in speculative young adult fiction. Children’s Literature in Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09563-7
  • Nash, B. L., Dunham, H., Murdter-Atkinson, J., & Mosley Wetzel, M. (2024). A culturally sustaining approach to multimodal literacies: Building on students’ funds of knowledge in preservice teacher education. Literacy Research and Instruction, 63(2), 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/19388071.2022.2153766
  • Nash, B. L., Pruitt, A. A., & Schallert, D. L. (2024). “Always trying to dig deeper”: The enactment of teaching expertise as an emotion-laden continual learning process. Teachers College Record, 126(1), 61-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681241233875
Presentations
  • Nash, B. L. & Mertens, G. (2024, November). Exploring Constructs of Digital Understanding with Platforms and Culture in Mind. Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.
  • Karkar Esperat, T., Nash, B. L. Shimek, C., Pierce, K. M., & Ivanyuk, L. (2024, April). "New literacies across contexts: Teacher educators’ and preservice teachers’ iterative learning across semesters. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
  • Nash, B. L. (2023). Exploring Students’ Criticality and Metacognition on Digital Reading Through Video Screencast Reflections: An Iterative Journey. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference. Columbus, OH.
  • Nash, B. L. (Chair), Robinson, B., Fassbender, W., & Parker, L. (2023, April). Symposium: The question of curriculum in (and for) a world of disinformation. Symposium at The American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
  • Nash, B. L. (2023, April). Sociocritical inquiry: A Digital reading curriculum for examining systems of disinformation. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
  • Nash, B. L. (2022, December). Crossing boundaries in conceptions of digital reading: What can we learn from literacy teachers’ critical self-inquiries?. Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. Phoenix, AZ.
  • Nash, B. L. (2022, December). Theoretical and practical challenges to incorporating video games in literacy classrooms. Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. Phoenix, AZ.
  • Vasinda, S., Nash, B. L., Stufft, C., Von Gillern, S., & Thrailkill, D. (2022, December). Alternative session: Traversing boundaries between understanding and experiencing story: using videogames in literacy learning and research. Alternative Session presented at The Literacy Research Association Annual Conference. Phoenix, AZ.