Research

LaVoulle, C., & Lewis Ellison, T. (accepted). Bad Bitch Barbie craze and Beyonce: African American women bodies as a commodity in hip-hop culture, images, and media. 23 pages Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education.

Tinker Sachs, G., McGrail, E., Lewis Ellison, T., Dukes, N.,+ & Zackery, K.+ (2017). Literacy scholars coming to know the people in the parks, their literacy practices and support systems. Critical Inquiries in Language Studies. 

Lewis Ellison, T. (2017). The matter in parents’ stories: African American urban mothers’ counter stories about the Common Core State Standards and quality teaching. Urban Education, 1-31.

Lewis Ellison, T. (2017). Digital participation, agency, choice: An African American youth’s digital storytelling about Minecraft. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.

Lewis Ellison, T. (2016, November/December). Digital literacies closing the familial divide: Building relationships within African American families through digital literacy practices. Literacy Today, 16-17. (The International Literacy Association’s premiere magazine).

Lewis Ellison, T., Evans, J. N.,+ with Jim Pike (2016). Minecraft, teachers, parents, and learning: What they need to know and understand. School Community Journal, 26(2), 25-44.

Moje, E. & Lewis Ellison, T. (2016). Extended – and extending – literacies. Journal of Education, 196(3), 27-34. (Becoming a Nation of Readers: Retrospectives and Visions Issue).

Lewis Ellison, T., Nogueron-Liu, S., & Solomon, M. (2016). Co-constructing place, space, and race: African American and Latin@ parents’ and researchers’ representations of digital literacy research in the South. Journal of Literacy and Technology, 17(3), 62-99.

Lewis Ellison, T. (2016). Artifacts as stories: Understanding families, digital literacies, and storied lives. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 59(5), 511–513.

Dooley, C., Lewis Ellison, T., & Welch, M.+ (2016). Digital participatory pedagogy: Digital participation as a method for technology integration in curriculum. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 32(2), 52-62.

Lewis Ellison, T. (2014). Digital ontologies of self: Two African American adolescent’s co-construct and negotiate identities through The Sims 2. Digital Culture & Education, 6(4), 317-340.

Lewis Ellison, T., & Kirkland, D. (2014). Motherboards, mics, and metaphors: Reexamining new literacies and Black feminist thought through technologies of self. Journal of E-Learning and Digital Media. 11(4), pp. 390-405.

Lewis Ellison, T. (2014). An African American mother’s stories as T.M.I.:  Ethics and vulnerability around traumatic narratives in digital literacy research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 13, pp. 255-274.

Lewis, T. Y. (2014). Apprenticeships, affinity spaces, and agency: Exploring blogging engagements in family spaces. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 58(1), pp. 71-81.

Lewis, T. Y. (2013). “We txt 2 sty cnnectd:” An African American mother and son communicate: Digital  literacies, meaning-making, and activity theory systems. Journal of Education. 193(2), 1-13. Technology in Education Issue.

Compton-Lilly, C., Rogers, R., & Lewis, T. Y. (2012). Analyzing diversity epistemologies: An integrative critical literature review of family literacy scholarship. Reading Research Quarterly.  47(1), pp. 33-60.

Lewis, T. Y. (2011). Family digital literacies: A case of awareness, agency, and apprenticeship of one African American family. In P. J. Dunston, L. B. Gambrell, K. Headley, S. K. Fullerton, P. M. Stecker, V. R. Gillis, and C. C. Bates (eds.), 60th Literacy Research Association Yearbook (pp. 432-446). Oak Creek, Wisconsin: Literacy Research Association.

Lewis, T. Y. (2010). Review of book: Digital literacies: Concepts, policies and practices. Language Arts, 87(5), pp. 396-397.

Lewis, T. Y. (2009). New report says Black-White reading and math achievements improve but racial gap remains. Retrieved from Black-White reading and math achievements

Lewis, T. Y., & Rogers, R. (2007). Review of Family stories across the life course. Discourse & Society, 18(2): pp. 225-230.

Lewis, T. Y. (2010). The motherboard stories. In K. Pahl and J. Rowsell. Artifactual literacies: Every object tells a story (pp. 112-113). New York, New York: Teachers College Press.

Lewis, T. Y. (2014). Podcast of Author’s Feature article, “Affinity Spaces, Apprenticeships, and Agency: Exploring Blogging Engagements in Family Spaces” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 58. TLE JAAL Podcast 2014