Ryan M. Rish (he/him/his)

My research interests involve the literacy practices of adolescents and adults, especially in regard to how those practices relate to the institutions, social spaces, and geographic places in which they are enacted. This research includes investigations within and across classrooms, online spaces, and communities guided by concerns for learning with participants how to make learning opportunities more equitable for marginalized youth and how to engage students with critical considerations of their social worlds and local communities.

• PhD, Ohio State University, Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies
• MEd, Ohio State University, English Education
• BA, Walsh University, English & Philosophy

• Schindel, A., Rish, R.M., Ramdath, K.*, Mawer, D.*, Higgins, C.*, & Christiano, M.* (2022). Sustaining relationships through critical place inquiry. Journal of School & Society, 8(2), 37-44.
• Clark, C., Skrlac Lo, R., Boyd, A., Cook, M., Crawley, A., & Rish, R.M. (2022). New conceptual tools for be(com)ing antiracist literacy (teacher) educators at PWIs. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 21(4), 364-378.

• Proctor, C., & Rish, R.M. (2025). The song need not remain the same: AI literacies in the lives of youth. In S. Abas, J.D. DeHart, D. Gibbons Pyles, & R.A. Mora (Eds.), Reimagining Literacy in the Age of AI: Theory and Practice (pp. 135-151). CRC Press.
• Rish, R.M., & Rish, E.M. (2024). Virtual bike racing: Contrastive case studies of embodied gaming. In H. Gerber (Ed.), The literacies of esports ecosystem (pp. 144-163). Boston, MA: Brill | Sense.

• Rish, R.M. (2022, November). Moral Panics and Agentive Youth on Social Media. Academy for Human Rights and Capital Region Institute for Human Rights.;
• Rish, R.M. (2023, March). Critical placemaking and digital literacies. Writing Across the Curriculum, SUNY Oneonta.;

• Boyd, A., Clark, C., Cook, M., Crawley, A., Rish, R.M., & Skrlac Lo, R. (2022, November). Be(com)ing antiracist teacher educators in predominantly white institutions (PWIs): A collaborative, hermeneutic inquiry. National Council of Teachers of English. Anaheim, CA.;
• Boyd, A., Clark, C., Cook, M., Crawley, A., Rish, R.M., & Skrlac Lo, R. (2022, November). Exploring catalysts for epistemic friction: Antiracist texts, conversations, and teaching at PWIs. Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.;
• Rish, R.M. (2022, November). Environmental placemaking with locative media. ELATE Commission for Digital Literacies and Teacher Education Roundtables. National Council of Teachers of English, Anaheim, CA.;

• NSF STEM DAY Supplement. STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes; Federal Government; National Science Foundation; Awarded; (01/01/2025-05/25/2025)
• STEMcyclists: Black and Brown Youth Transforming STEM via Bikes; Federal Government; National Science Foundation; Awarded; (01/01/2024-12/31/2026)
• Becoming Antiracist Educators in Partisan Pandemic Times; Foundation and Research Organization; Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University; Awarded; (08/01/2021-08/01/2023)
• Citizen Science Teachers: University at Buffalo (UB) Noyce Residency Scholars; Federal Government; National Science Foundation Noyce Program; Awarded; (07/21/2021-06/30/2026)
• WNY Environmental Science Collaborative: Strengthening Science Pathways with Historically Underrepresented Youth; Local Government; Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo (SUNY); Awarded; (04/01/2019-03/31/2020)

• Editorial Board Member, Research in the Teaching of English
  06/01/2022-05/31/2025
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
  08/01/2017-06/30/2026

• Media Literacy Award Selection Committee, NCTE
  07/01/2022-07/30/2024
• Chair, Early Career Award Committee: Media, Culture, and Learning SIG, AERA
  11/01/2019-03/31/2020
• Chair, Nominating Committee, English Language Arts Teacher Educators (formerly CEE)
  09/01/2018-08/31/2019