Biography
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.
Research Interests
Dr. Robinson studies how digital platforms shape the literate lives of young people in and out of school. Across studies of ClassDojo, Discord, Reddit, and Twitch, his work traces how design decisions embedded in such platforms govern the practice of literacy, and how teachers and young people work within and against that governance. That line of inquiry has recently turned to AI. Dr. Robinson examines what becomes of literacy when it is taught, learned, and practiced within automated systems whose logics are opaque to the teachers and students using them. Recent work has explored the emergence of synthetic affect in AI teaching assistants and how platform logics surface in digital reading education platforms.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Robinson teaches courses on the ethics of educational technology, digital game-based learning, and artificial intelligence in education. His teaching approaches educational technology as the materialization of design choices with consequences, asking students to consider what a given platform is for, whose interests it serves, and whether and how it opens or forecloses meaningful learning in a classroom.