Biography
Gergana Vitanova's research interests encompass issues of identity, gender, and agency in language learning and teaching. Her articles appear in
national and international journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Language,
Identity, and Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language and Dialogue, System, CATESOL Journal, and others. She has also written the research book Authoring the Dialogical Self: Gender, Agency and Language Practices (2010), published by John Benjamins, and co-edited the following volumes: Dialogues
with Bakhtin: New perspectives on second and foreign language learning (2005), published by Routledge, Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Acquisition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
(2015) by Multilingual Matters, and Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency (2019, Multilingual Matters). A secondary area of interest has been video games and how these could be applied to language teaching.
She has taught various applied linguistics and ESL courses at Grand Valley State University, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, Harvard University, and abroad.
Research Interests
- identity and agency in language learning and teaching
- Bakhtin's dialogic perspectives
- narrative inquiry in applied linguistics
- video games in language learning and teaching.
Recent Research Activities
Books (peer-reviewed)
- Kayi-Aidar, H., Gao, X., Miller, E., Varghese, M., & Vitanova, G. (Eds.). (2019). Theorizing and analyzing teacher agency. Multilingual Matters.
- Deters, P., Gao, X., Miller, E. R., & Vitanova, G. (Eds.). (2015) Theorizing and analyzing agency in second language learning: Interdisciplinary approaches. Multilingual Matters.
- Vitanova, G. (2010). Authoring the dialogical self: Gender, agency, and language practices. John Benjamins.
- Hall, J. K., Vitanova, G., & Marchenkova, L. (Eds.). (2005). Dialogues with Bakhtin: New perspectives on second and foreign language learning. Lawrence Erlbaum (Routledge).
Recent peer-reviewed articles and chapters
- ·Vitanova, G. (2023). “It’s just a feeling!” Emotions and intersectionality in language teacher narratives. TESOL Quarterly. DOI: 10.1002/TESQ.3297.
- Kayi-Aydar, H., Varghese, M., Vitanova, G. (2022). Intersectionality for TESOL Education: Connecting Theory and Justice Pedagogy. CATESOL Journal.
- Vitanova, G., Johnson, E., Sousa, S., & Merritt, D. (2022). Gameful teaching: Exploring teacher identity and agency through videogames. In H. Kayi-Ayadar & J. Reinhardt (Eds.). Language teacher development in digital contexts, pp. 49-66. John Benjamins.
- Johnson, E. & Vitanova, G. (2021) Agency and gaming in language learning. In Work and labor in world languages, literatures, and film (pp.71-79). Brown-Walker Press.
- Johnson, E.K., Giroux, A. L., Merritt, D., Vitanova,
G., Sousa, S. (2020). Assessing the impact of game modalities in second
language acquisition: ELLE the EndLess
LEarner. Journal of Universal Computer Science, special edition on Immersive
Learning, vol. 26(8), 880-903.
- Vitanova, G. (2018). “Just call me a teacher”: Mapping language teacher agency through gender, race, and professional discourses. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 79, 28-37.
- Vitanova, G. (2017). Multimodal
autobiographies as sites of identity construction in second-language teacher education.
Auto/Biography Studies, 32(1), 39-53.
- Vitanova, G. (2016). Exploring second language teachers’ identities through multimodal narratives: Gender and race discourses. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 13(4), 261-288.
- Vitanova, G. (2013). Dialogue in language learning and teaching: Directions for future research and practice. Language and Dialogue, vol. 3(3), 388-402.
- Vitanova, G. (2013). Narratives as zones of dialogic constructions. In Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, vol. 10(3), 242-261.
Courses
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82939 | TSL6250 | Applied Linguistics in ESOL | Web-Based (W) | Th 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |
| 83392 | TSL6252 | Sociolinguistics for ESOL | Mixed Mode (M) | M 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM | Unavailable |
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12573 | TSL6250 | Applied Linguistics in ESOL | Mixed Mode (M) | W 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM | Unavailable |
| 12549 | TSL6642 | Issues in Second Lang Acquis | Mixed Mode (M) | M 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM | Unavailable |
| Course # | Course | Title | Session | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59477 | TSL6250 | Applied Linguistics in ESOL | A | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable |