Josh Coleman

Josh Coleman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University, specializing in English education. His research focuses on LGBTQ+ youth literature and educator well-being, particularly addressing classroom censorship through the 'Banned Childhoods' project funded by the National Academy of Education and Spencer postdoctoral fellowship. He co-authored Restorying Young Adult Literature: Expanding Students’ Perspectives with Digital Texts (NCTE, 2023).

Education: PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His work integrates social science and humanities approaches to critique cisheteronormative educational structures, advocating for queer-inclusive pedagogies. Recent publications explore topics like anti-LGBTQ+ book bans, queer civic education, and digital storytelling methodologies.

Scientific Awards include the Children’s Literature Assembly Research Award (2024) and his Spencer/National Academy fellowship. His grants and research emphasize educator resilience in conservative educational environments. Coleman’s teaching philosophy centers on restorying marginalized narratives through multimodal and speculative approaches.

Key research themes include queer futurity, affective literacies, and the intersection of race/gender in pedagogical spaces. His work bridges critical literacy theory with practical classroom strategies, often using speculative fiction to reimagine educational norms.