Ryan M. Rish

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. Recent projects focus on supporting student inquiry with digital tools that allow for the collection and dissemination of locative data and media.

• PhD, Ohio State University, Adolescent, Post-Secondary, and Community Literacies (2011)
• MEd, Ohio State University, English Education (2001)
• BA, Walsh University, English & Philosophy (1997)

• Exceptional Graduate Educator; LAI Graduate Student Association; 2018-04-27;
• Exceptional Doctoral Mentor; LAI Graduate Student Association; 2018-04-27;
• Online Teaching Ambassador; Open SUNY; 2018-02-12;
• Faculty in Residence; Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo (SUNY); 2017-11-01;
• Emerging Teacher Award; English Department, Kennesaw State University; 2012-01-09;

• 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.
• Goff, B., & Rish, R.M. (2020). What's brought along and brought about: Negotiating writing practices in two high school classrooms. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 42, 1-13.

• Rish, R.M., & Rish, E.M. (2023). 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. (2020). Mediated discourse analysis of classroom writing events. In M. Knobel, J. Kalman, & C. Lankshear (Eds.) Data Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory in Literacy Studies Research: How To Guide (pp. 55-76). Gorham, ME: Myers Publishing.

• 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.;
• Schindel, A., Rish, R.M., Ramdath, K., & Ormerod, K. (2023, April). Healing relationships with the natural world through critical place inquiry. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago, IL.;
• Waight, N., Tripp, J., Rish, R.M., Miles, M., Ramdath, K., Robert, S., & Gallivan, S. (2023, April). Biking to uncover science in urban communities: Pre-service Science teachers' critical conscientization of science-community. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago, IL.;

• 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; National Science Foundation Noyce Program; Awarded; (07/21/2021-06/30/2026)
• WNY Environmental Science Collaborative: Strengthening Science Pathways with Historically Underrepresented Youth; Local; Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo (SUNY); Awarded; (04/01/2019-03/31/2020)
• Supporting Pre-Service English Teachers in the Teaching of Grammar; Foundation and Research Organization; Center for the Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Kennesaw State University; Awarded; (02/06/2012-05/31/2012)
• Community Literacies and Civic Engagement Associated with an Online Newspaper; Foundation and Research Organization; Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, Ohio State University; Awarded; (06/30/2008-06/30/2008)

• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (Vol. 72)
  01/01/2023-05/31/2023
• Editorial Board Member, Research in the Teaching of English
  06/01/2022-05/31/2025

• 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