Antero Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Antero was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles.Shelbie Witte, Ph.D. (2008), Kansas State University, is the Watson Endowed Chair and Professor of Adolescent Literacy and English Education at Oklahoma State University, where she directs the OSU Writing Project and the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research. She has published extensively on the intersections of pedagogy and technology.Jennifer S. Dail, Kennesaw State University, is a Professor of English Education and directs the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project. She has published multiple articles and co-edited two books, including Young Adult Literature and the Digital World: Textual Engagement through Visual Literacy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

• ForewordDonna E. AlvermannList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Gaming Literacies and the Boundaries of PlayAntero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie WittePART 1: Methodological Investigations in Literacies ResearchIntroduction to Part 1: Methodological Investigations in Literacies ResearchAntero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie Witte1 Inform, Perform, Transform: Modeling In-School Youth Participatory Action Research through GameplayAntero Garcia2 How Youth Can Use Gaming as an Act of CreationJennifer Wyld3 Digital Literacy Practices for a Gaming Generation: Commercial Gaming Lessons from Adolescent GamersJason A. Engerman, Robert Hein, Nate Turcotte and Alison Carr-Chellman4 Literacies of Play: Blazing the Trail, Unchartered Territories, and Hurrying Up – #TeamLaV’s Interview with James Paul GeeRaúl Alberto Mora, James Paul Gee, Michael Hernandez, Sebastián Castaño, Tyrone Steven Orrego and Daniel RamírezPART 2: Playful ExplorationsIntroduction to Part 2: Playful ExplorationsAntero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie Witte5 Building Civic Literacy in the English Language Arts through Geospatial PlayEllen Middaugh and Jolynn A. Asato6 Projective Worlds: Minecraft and McalagaësiaLaura D’Aveta7 Literacy Practice and Play: Participatory Culture in the MMORPG, FFXIV: A Realm RebornShannon R. Mortimore-SmithIndex

Antero Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Antero was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles.Shelbie Witte, Ph.D. (2008), Kansas State University, is the Watson Endowed Chair and Professor of Adolescent Literacy and English Education at Oklahoma State University, where she directs the OSU Writing Project and the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research. She has published extensively on the intersections of pedagogy and technology.Jennifer S. Dail, Kennesaw State University, is a Professor of English Education and directs the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project. She has published multiple articles and co-edited two books, including Young Adult Literature and the Digital World: Textual Engagement through Visual Literacy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

• ForewordDonna E. AlvermannList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Gaming Literacies and the Boundaries of PlayAntero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie WittePART 1: Methodological Investigations in Literacies ResearchIntroduction to Part 1: Methodological Investigations in Literacies ResearchAntero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie Witte1 Inform, Perform, Transform: Modeling In-School Youth Participatory Action Research through GameplayAntero Garcia2 How Youth Can Use Gaming as an Act of CreationJennifer Wyld3 Digital Literacy Practices for a Gaming Generation: Commercial Gaming Lessons from Adolescent GamersJason A. Engerman, Robert Hein, Nate Turcotte and Alison Carr-Chellman4 Literacies of Play: Blazing the Trail, Unchartered Territories, and Hurrying Up – #TeamLaV’s Interview with James Paul GeeRaúl Alberto Mora, James Paul Gee, Michael Hernandez, Sebastián Castaño, Tyrone Steven Orrego and Daniel RamírezPART 2: Playful ExplorationsIntroduction to Part 2: Playful ExplorationsAntero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie Witte5 Building Civic Literacy in the English Language Arts through Geospatial PlayEllen Middaugh and Jolynn A. Asato6 Projective Worlds: Minecraft and McalagaësiaLaura D’Aveta7 Literacy Practice and Play: Participatory Culture in the MMORPG, FFXIV: A Realm RebornShannon R. Mortimore-SmithIndex