Biography and education
Bradley Robinson, Ph.D., joined Texas State University's College of Education in 2020, where he holds a dual appointment in educational technology and secondary education. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and an M.A. in English from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English before completing his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia in 2020. He came to research after eleven years teaching high school English in North Carolina, an experience that continues to shape his questions about what educational technologies ask of teachers and students.
His research appears in journals including Learning, Media and Technology, Journal of Literacy Research, Games and Culture, Research in the Teaching of English, and Postdigital Science and Education. He is co-editor of Gaming in a Postdigital World: Towards New Understandings for Learning and Literacy (Springer, 2026) and guest co-editor of a 2024 special issue of Reading Research Quarterly on literacy in the age of AI. He serves as editor of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (English) and on the executive committee of English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) for NCTE. In 2025 he received the TXST College of Education's Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities.
His research appears in journals including Learning, Media and Technology, Journal of Literacy Research, Games and Culture, Research in the Teaching of English, and Postdigital Science and Education. He is co-editor of Gaming in a Postdigital World: Towards New Understandings for Learning and Literacy (Springer, 2026) and guest co-editor of a 2024 special issue of Reading Research Quarterly on literacy in the age of AI. He serves as editor of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (English) and on the executive committee of English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) for NCTE. In 2025 he received the TXST College of Education's Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Bacalja, A., Robinson, T. B., & Dishon, G. (Eds.). (2026). Gaming in a Postdigital World. Springer.
- Robinson, undefined B., & Fassbender, W. (2024). Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: Mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo. Learning, Media and Technology, 49(4), 579–594.
- Robinson, undefined B. (2023). Speculative propositions for digital writing under the new autonomous model of literacy. Postdigital Science and Education, 5(1), 117–135.
- Robinson, undefined B., & Wright, W. (2023). Actually existing vitality rights: Resisting neoliberal affects at a video game design camp. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 22(2), 247–260.
- Robinson, undefined B. (2023). “You Will Perish”: A case study of serendipitous literacies and novice video game design. Journal of Literacy Research, 55(3), 275–301.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Education. 2025
- Award / Honor Recipient: Macagnoni Qualitative Research Award, University of Georgia. 2019
Featured service activities
- Co-Chair
Literacy Research Association
- Editor
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (English)
- Member
ELATE Executive Committee
- Reviewer / Referee
AERA Open
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Literacy Research
- Reviewer / Referee
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education