Scott Storm
PhD, New York University
Dr. Scott Storm, is Assistant Professor of Literacy in the School of Education at the University at Albany, SUNY. He investigates the connections between literacies and social justice. In particular, Dr. Storm traces how the ways that people read and write also reinforce or contest inequalities. As an education scholar, he draws on his transdisciplinary training in linguistic anthropology, sociology, statistics and machine learning, literary studies, and queer studies to critically investigate how people use language and discourse in social life.
Dr. Storm has fifteen years’ experience as a high school English teacher, including in founding, designing, and sustaining urban public high schools. Informed by these experiences, his research is motivated by an urgency to create social justice-driven learning ecologies for all students.
Dr. Storm uses diverse research methodologies across qualitative, quantitative, interpretive, design-based, and participatory traditions. His research agenda coalesces around three major lines of inquiry: 1) Studies of how educational systems contribute to inequalities and to the marginalization of BIPOC, queer, and working-class youth, particularly regarding language and literacies. 2) Studies of the asset-based literacy practices of BIPOC, queer, and working-class youth. 3) Design-based studies which employ findings from the first two lines of inquiry to reimagine and transform educational spaces toward social justice.
Dr. Storm's work has appeared in publications such as Journal of Literacy Research; Equity & Excellence in Education; English Teaching Practice & Critique; Literacy Research & Instruction; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; Journal of Language and Literacy Education; English Leadership Quarterly; English Journal; Language Arts; Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education; and Schools: Studies in Education among others. Additionally, Dr. Storm and a colleague have a forthcoming book focused on social justice approaches to transforming literacy learning from Myers Education Press.