This edited collection introduces English and literacy educators to the theoretical, research-based, and practical dimensions of using digital memetic texts-"memes"-in the classroom.

Leah Panther is an assistant professor of Literacy Education at Mercer University, USA. She has been a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) since 2008 and is a former middle school teacher.

Darren Crovitz is a professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University, USA. He regularly presents at the NCTE conference and is a former high school teacher.

Editors

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Historical Damage, Modern Resonances, and Speculative Futures: English Education through Memes

Part One. A Critical Memetic Curriculum

Introduction: Rethinking Reading in a Critical Memetic Curriculum

2. Making "Meme"ing: Questions for Critical Memetic Inquiry in High School English Classrooms
3. Critical Media Analysis through Memes: Considerations and Applications for ELA Classrooms
4. Mimetic Masculinities: Young Men of Color Analyze Anime Texts They Love
5. The Meme Museum: Depictions and Analysis of COVID-19 with High School Students

Part Two. Multimodal Composing with Memetic Texts

Introduction: Deconstructing Purposes and Outcomes for Composing

6. Socially Conscious Memetics Through a Culturally Digitized Pedagogy Lens
7. Young People Reading and Writing the World through Meme Curation, Creation, and Critical Conversation
8. Critical Memetic Analysis as Testimony: Restorying Memes as Healing Pedagogies
9. What do you Meme? Using Memes for Argument Construction and Understanding
10. We're not Joking Anymore: Context, Audiences, and Memetics

Part Three. Memetics and Language

Introduction: Critiquing Linguicism with Critical Memetic Language Study

11. Using Memes to Teach Linguistic Concepts in the ELA Classroom
12. "I want to use my voice": Youth Literacies Disrupting Critical Memetic Analysis

Part Four. Memes and Community Identities

Introduction: Transgression and Control

13. Framing Critical Memetic Literacy: Helping Students Grapple with Manipulative Memes
14. Repurposing Problematic Memes in a Middle School Superhero Storytelling Project
15. The Plagiarism Paradox: Memes, Originality, and Authorship

Key Terms

Index