SCHOLARSHIP

Select Publications:

Wargo, J.M., & Smith, K. (2023). “So, You’re Not Homophobic, Just Racist and Hate Gay Muslims?” Reading Difference with LGBTQ-Themed Young Adult Literature. English Education, 55(3), 155-180.

Wargo, J.M., Morales, M., & Corbitt, A. (2022). Fabricating Response: Prospective Elementary Teachers Remediating Response to The Circuit through 3D Printing and Design. Curriculum Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2022.2149028

Wargo, J.M. (2022). Gendered Genius Hour: Tracing Young Children’s Uptake of ‘Expert’ Across the Nexus of Personal Digital Inquiry. Research in the Teaching of English, 56(3), 275-300.

Wargo, J.M. (2021). ‘Sound’ Civics, Heard Histories: A Telling Case of Young Children Mobilizing Digital Media to Write (Right) Injustice. Theory and Research in Social Education. 49(3), 260-389.

Wargo, J.M. (2019). Sounding the Garden, Voicing a Problem: Mobilizing Critical Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry with Young Children. Language Arts. 96(5), 275-285.

Wargo, J.M. (2018). Writing with Wearables? Young Children’s Intra-Active Authoring and the Sounds of Emplaced Invention. Journal of Literacy Research. doi: 10.1177/1086296X18802880

Wargo, J.M. (2017). “Every Selfie Tells a Story…” LGBTQ Youth Lifestreams and New Media Narratives as Connective Identity Texts. New Media and Society, 19(4), 560-578

Recent Refereed Conference and Paper Presentations:

• Wargo, J.M. (November, 2023). Exhibiting Play, Orchestrating Escape: Examining Peer Ecologies in Learning to Read the (Escape) Room [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA, United States.

• Giunco, K., Wargo, J.M., Smith, K. (November, 2023). ‘Reading’ Response in an Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Book Club: The Cultural Politics of In-Service Educators Making Sense of Justice-Oriented Texts [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA, United States.

• Smith, K. & Wargo, J.M. (November, 2023). Tracing Textual Transformations: Examining Remediated Forms and Theory in Translation [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA, United States.

• Wargo, J.M., (2023, April). Mimicked Models and Remixed Recipes: Tracing the Textual Trajectories of Young Children’s Play(giarism) [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

• Wargo, J.M., & Katz, A. (2023, April). Framed Frictions and Teaching in the Tip: Elementary Educators’ Perceptions of LGBTQ+ Inclusive Policy [Poster presentation]. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

• Brownell, C.J., Wargo, J.M., & Schenkel, K. (2023, March). Stories of Environmental Stewardship: Communicating Nature-Culture Relations through Guided Interdisciplinary Inquiry [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR, United States.

• Wargo, J.M., Segel, M., Giunco, K. & Smith, K. (2022, December). Teaching for Justice: Examining the ‘for-s,’ ‘in’s,’ and ‘of-s,’ Preparing Anti-Racist ELA (Teacher) Educators [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Phoenix, AZ, United States.

• Wargo, J.M. & Smith, K. (2022, December). On (Not) Defining Queer Childhoods: Discussing Difference in a University-Based LGBTQ+ Literature Course [Paper presentation]. Literacy Research Association, Phoenix, AZ, United States.

Invited Keynote Talks and Workshops:

• Wargo, J.M. (2022, November). Sonic Scenes of Play and Learning: Toward a Theory of Technological ‘Soundness’ [Invited address]. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States.

• Brownell, C. J., Campano, G., Low, D. & Wargo, J.M. (2021, October). World visions on literacy and transdisciplinarity [Invited keynote address]. 2nd International Literacy Congress presented by the Transdisciplinary Literacy Institute (ITRALI), Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, JA, México.

• Wargo, J.M. (2021, September) “From Picturebooks to Primary Sources: Cultivating Historical Inquiry through Children’s Literature and the Digital Commonwealth.” Invited by Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Online

• Wargo, J.M. (2021, April) “Writing Response-ably: On the Precarity and Promise of Writing for Publication.” Invited by the 2021 Thomas R. Watson Conference leadership team at the University of Louisville. Online

• Wargo, J.M. (2020, April) “Designing Inquiry, Modeling Response: Mobilizing 3D Printing as Response to Young Adult Literature.” Invited by the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE). New Orleans, LA. (Virtual Conference)

• Wargo, J.M. (2020, February) “Making Civics, Designing Inquiry: Towards a ‘Sound’ Theory of Young Children’s Critical Literacies.” Invited by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) – University of Toronto’s Visiting Scholars Program. Toronto, ON.

• Wargo, J.M. (2019, May) “A/r/tographic Inquiry as Colleage” A workshop hosted by the Media and Social Change (MASC) Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University. New York, NY

• Wargo, J.M. & Oliveira, G. (2019, May) “Sounding School and Sentience: Writing the Field Recording in Educational Ethnography.” Invited by the Wheelock' School of Education’s Qualitative Research Collective. Boston, MA

• Wargo, J.M. (2019, March) “Making Noise! Toward a ‘Sound’ Theory of Young Children’s Making.” Invited by the MakEY Project, a Horizon 2020 European Funding for Research and Innovation (RISE) recipient. Manchester, UK