Dr. Christianakis is a professor of language, literacy, and culture. She studies literacy development from a critical sociocultural perspective, primarily in urban and multilingual contexts. Her work explores discourse practices related to the development of written language in schools. Dr. Christianakis is also interested in literacy development in out-of-school settings, such as community and cultural centers. Her scholarly writing has been focused on language and literacy pedagogies for culturally and linguistically diverse children. On Saturday mornings, Professor Christianakis teaches creative writing to incarcerated youth. Professor Christianakis is an elected member of the Teacher Education Quarterly Editorial Board, http://www.teqjournal.org.
ARTICLES (Double-Blind Peer Reviewed)
Charter schools, market capitalism, and Obama’s neoliberal agenda (with Richard Mora), Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education (2011)
Children’s text development: Drawing, pictures and writing, Research in the Teaching of English (2011)
Parents as “help labor”: Inner-city teachers’ narratives of parent involvement, Teacher Education Quarterly (2011)
BOOK CHAPTERS (Open Peer Reviewed)
A critical analysis of social hierarchies in children’s television., Blue Collar Pop Culture in Television (2012)
California’s not so public schools: Private money in public education (with Richard Mora), he Poor Are Not The Problem: Insisting on Class Equity in Schools (2012)
College curriculum as counter discourse: The California immigration semester at Occidental College (with Richard Mora and Salvador Fernández), Dangerous Counterstories in the Corporate Academy: Narrating for Understanding Solidarity, Resistance, and Community in the Age of Neoliberalism (2012)
E pluribus unum: Elementary school narratives and the making of national identity (with Richard Mora), he New Politics of the Textbook: Challenging the Curricular Dominance of Textbooks (2012)
“No free rides, no excuses”: Urban Working Class Students and the Myth of Meritocracy on Film (with Richard Mora), Blue Collar Pop Culture in Film (2012)
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Veronia School District 47 J v. Acton et ux., Guardians ad Litem for Acton, Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence (2011)
BOOKS REVIEWED
[Review of the book Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy and Popular Culture] (with D. Schneider), Men and Masculinities (2006)
[Review of book Children, Technology and Culture: The Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday Lives], Contemporary Sociology (2002)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Rewriting Identities: Past, Present, and Future Narratives of Youth in Juvenile Detention Facilities, American Anthropological Association (2010)
“I ain’t losing to no squeek”: Children teaching and learning videogames, Pacific Sociological Association Conference (2010)