Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides’s research while affiliated with Westfield State University and other places

... Books marketed under these categories explicitly name the intended reader. Analyses of children's and YA literature reveal how this for-ness emerges on the page through the implied reader (Cadden, 2021;Thein & Sulzer, 2015) and interacts with interpretations of real readers (Sarigianides, 2019;Toliver, 2020). An implied reader is textually constructed on the page while a real reader is a flesh-and-blood person in the world. ...

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Doctors, Drugs, and Danger: Disentangling Discourses of Adolescence/ts in Dreamland (original version) and Dreamland (young adult adaptation) with Critical Comparative Content Analysis

... Maybe the switch in Collins's poem lights up the critical potential of new perspectives. Maybe a theoretical orientation such as the Youth Lens (Sarigianides et al., 2015) or whiteness in the literary imagination acts like an electric socket, and when we plug into it, everything becomes illuminated in particular ways. Engaging with literary arts entails way more freedom and entanglement than reading-as-extraction allows for. ...

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Learning and Teaching Literature with the Arts for Social Justice

... What's new is the shift in language from social justice to antiracist/antibias and an explicit call for antiracist/antibias instruction across all standards. Further, we see the new standards have been informed by YAL scholarship, specifically "constructs of adolescents" (Sarigianides et al., 2017). We look forward to the next decade of publications to see how YAL scholarship documents and informs how teacher educators engage with YAL in their teacher education coursework and the implications for how classroom teachers read and apply YAL theory in their classrooms. ...

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Research: Exploring Trends in a Growing Field: A Content Analysis of Young Adult Literature Scholarly Book Publications 2000–2020

... Such analysis reinforces the commonsensical understanding that youth need adult guidance in order to lead healthy lives. Others (Lewis, Petrone, & Sarigianides, 2016) show how adolescent-adult relationships depend on the views of youth that adults hold. More positive, healthy relationships occur when adults understand young people as capable and knowledgeable, rather than incomplete and rebellious. ...

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Wisdom, Mystery, and Dangerous Knowledge: Exploring Depictions of the Archetypal Sage in Young Adult Literature

... These previous theoretical tendencies either essentialized White identity as smoothly experienced privilege or assumed White ally identities as a simple "option." Pushing back against essentializing tendencies, CWS and White teacher identity studies have recently sought, not to negate past notions of whiteness and White privilege, but rather to recondition and re-capacitate essentializing tendencies in these concepts with new emphases on identity complexities and whiteness pedagogies (e.g., Asher, 2007;Cabrera, 2012c;Flynn, 2015;Lensmire, 2011Lensmire, , 2014Lensmire & Snaza, 2010;Lowenstein, 2009;McCarthy, 2003;Sarigianides, 2017;Thandeka, 1999;Trainor, 2002;Utt & Tochluk, 2016;Zingsheim & Goltz, 2012). Rather than adhering to past essentializing tendencies, these five themes in the literature highlighted many of the nuances and contradictions that White teachers face when engaging issues of racism. ...

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Race-Evasive White Teacher Identity Studies 1990-2015: What Can We Learn from 25 Years of Research?

... Eventually, maybe the third or fourth visit Rob made to the school, the idea of doing a "repositioning pedagogy" with my students, something Rob had done on previous occasions (e.g., Petrone & Sarigianides, 2017), came up and felt like a really natural next step. With the support of the administration, grant money Rob had accessed, and accompanied by our lead counselor, we brought several students to the university for two nights to teach future teachers about the pathways to success for them as Native youth. ...

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“If this isn't lifework, I don't know what is": Challenges, Joys, and Healing Through Relational Scholarship

... Research has shown that when youth are taken into consideration in teacher education, they are typically filtered through the dominant developmental lens of adolescence, which maintains young people as ideational abstractions and presupposes a set of constrained possibilities for youth as well as teachers and curricula (Lesko, 2012;Lewis & Petrone, 2010;Patel, 2012;Petrone & Lewis, 2012;Sarigianides, 2016;Sulzer & Thein, 2016). For example, Petrone and Lewis (2012) found that preservice English teachers' conceptions of their future students as dealing with what they understood as the naturally-occurring tumultuousness of adolescence established particular identities they imagined for themselves (e.g., pseudo-therapist) and informed their curricular reasoning (e.g., selecting young adult novels about dangerous topics). ...

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From Talking about to Talking with: Integrating Native Youth Voices into Teacher Education via a Repositioning Pedagogy

... In studies of youth literature, scholars have taken up Lesko's argument. For example, Petrone et al. (2014) built an interdisciplinary framework for analyzing youth, arguing for a radical reconsideration of current ways of interpreting young adult literature and media. Introducing what they named a "youth lens, " they highlighted how adolescence can be understood not as a concept or theoretical construct but as an identity category embedded within particular contexts, histories, and suppositions. ...

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Contingent Contradictions and the (Il)Logics of Adolescence: Examining How Undergraduates in an LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature Course Read Queer Youth

... This is not meant to trivialize the danger and horror that the pandemic has caused for many Americans by comparing it to horror fiction, but to show how adolescent protagonists facing unimaginable horrors can become mirrors for American students to deal with their own fears (Strickland 2019). For young readers, ZYAL creates an opportunity to unpack the concept(s) of adolescence(ts), and for readers to grapple with the socially constructed views of who adolescents really are as individuals and their ability to handle adult realities (Sarigianides 2012). ...

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Examining Adolescence and Agency in the Midst of International Crisis: Pandemics, Pandemonium, and Zombie Young Adult Literature