Publications
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW IN REFEREED JOURNALS
PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
EDITED VOLUMES
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS
BOOK
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
INVITED REPORTS
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
- Cortez, A., McKoy, A. (*), & Lizárraga, J. R. (in press). The future of young Blacktivism: Aesthetics and practices of speculative activism in video game play. The Journal of Futures Studies.
- McKoy, A. (*), & Cortez, A. (in press). Contending with nightmares and dreams: Designing liberatory Black futures through Lovecraft Country’s speculative counterstorytelling. Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture.
- Philip, T. M., Pham, J., Scott, M., & Cortez, A. (2022). Intentionally Addressing Nested Systems of Power in Schooling through Teacher Solidarity Co-Design. Cognition and Instruction, 40(1), 55-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2021.2010208
- Choudry, S., Cortez, A., Ferholt, B., Guarrasi, I., Jornet, A., Mahmood, M. W., Lemos, M., Nardi, B, Rajala, A., Stetsenko, A., & Williams, J. (2021). Scholarship and research in crisis contexts. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 28(3), 195-199.
- Cortez, A., Choudry, S., Esteban-Guitart, M., Ferholt, B., Guarrasi, I., Jornet, A., Lemos, M., Mahmood, M. W., Nardi, B, Rajala, A., Stetsenko, A., & Williams, J. (2021). Advancing funds of identity. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 28(2), 93-96.
- Lizárraga, J. R., & Cortez, A. (2020). Cyborg jotería pedagogies: Latinx drag queens leveraging communication ecologies in the age of the digital and social displacement. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 14(2), 44-66.
- Gutiérrez, K. D., Becker, B., Espinoza, M., Cortes, K., Cortez, A., Lizárraga, J. R., Rivero, E., Villegas, K., & Yin, P. (co-equal authors). (2019). Youth as Historical Actors in the Production of Possible Futures. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 26(4), 291-308.
- Gutierrez, K. D., Cortes, K., Cortez, A., DiGiacomo, D., Higgs, J., Johnson, P., Lizarraga, J. R., Mendoza, E., Tien, J., & Vakil, S. (co-equal authors). (2017). Replacing representation with imagination: Finding ingenuity in everyday practices. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 30-60.
PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW IN REFEREED JOURNALS
- Cortez, A., & Lizárraga, J. R., Castro, A. (*). (under review). Interrogating the Notion of Giving Voice: Designing for Polyphony Across Game-based Learning Ecologies. Mind, Culture, and Activity.
- Lizárraga, J. R., Hull, G. A., & Cortez, A. (under review). “Stop being that nice, please”: Intersections, near misses, and collisions. The Journal of the Learning Sciences.
- Cortez, A. (under review). Challenging the Monolingual Roots of Monologic Approaches: Leveraging Dialogic Translingual Practices. Teaching and Teacher Education.
- McClung, N., Cortez, A., & Lizárraga, J. R. (under review). Transforming Intern Teacher Education Through Community Partnership. Urban Education.
PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
- Lizárraga, J. R., Cortez, A., & Baca, K. (*) (accepted). Transforming narratives across digital platforms: Examining technological ecologies as a site of emergent political identities and literacies for pre-service teachers. In T. P. Nichols & A. Garcia (Eds.), Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, Possibilities.
- Cortez, A., & Gutiérrez, K. D. (2019). Socio-spatial repertoires as tools for resistance and expansive literacies. In M. P. Pacheco & P. Z. Morales (Eds.), Transforming schooling for second language learners: Policies, pedagogies, and practices. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
- Lizárraga, J. R., & Cortez, A. (2019). #gentrification, cultural erasure, and the (im)possibilities of digital queer gestures. In A. DeKosnik, K. Feldman (Eds.), #identity: Hashtagging race, gender, sex, and nation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
EDITED VOLUMES
- Choudry, S., Cortez, A., Ferholt, B., Guarrasi, I., Jornet, A., Mahmood, M. W., Lemos, M., Nardi, B, Rajala, A., Stetsenko, A., & Williams, J. (2021). Scholarship and research in crisis contexts. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 28(3), 195-199.
- Cortez, A., Choudry, S., Esteban-Guitart, M., Ferholt, B., Guarrasi, I., Jornet, A., Lemos, M., Mahmood, M. W., Nardi, B, Rajala, A., Stetsenko, A., & Williams, J. (2021). Special Issue on “Advancing funds of identity”. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 28(2), 93-96.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS
- Cortez, A. Baca, K. (*), & McKoy, A. (*). (2022). From players to hackers: Intergenerational tinkering with the socio-political in video game play. 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2022, Hiroshima, Japan.
- Mawasi, A., Cortez, A., McKoy, A. (*), & Penuel W. (2022). “It disrupts power dynamics”: Co-Design Process as a Space for Intergenerational Learning with Distributed Expertise. 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2022, Hiroshima, Japan.
- Keifert, D., Gutiérrez, K., Goodwin, M. H., Vossoughi, S., Cekaite, A., Rogoff, B., Cortez, A., & de León, L. (2021). Agency and Affect in dignity affirming learning contexts. In de Vries, E., Hod, Y., & Ahn, J. (Eds.), Reflecting the Past and Embracing the Future, 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2021, (pp. 795-802). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
- Davis, N., Hooper, P., Echevarria, R., Muñoz, A., Vossoughi, S., Cortez, A., Meixi, Pham, J., Scott, M., Sengupta-Irving, T., Tunney, J., & Macias, M. (2020). Taking on the Task of Reimagining Teacher Education: Positioning Teachers as Emergent Learning Scientists within Complex Political and Ethical Ecologies. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 4 (pp. 2191-2198). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
- Uttamchandani, S., Shrodes, A., Lizarraga, J., Cortez, A., Paré, D., Shanahan, M., Sengupta, P., Bang, M., & Hoadley, C. (2020). Attending to Gender and Sexuality in Learning: Lessons From Scholarship By, For, and With LGBTQ+ People. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 358-365). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
- Vossoughi, S., Bang, M., McDaid-Morgan, N., Hooper, P., Berry, A., Papak, A., Booker, A., Collins, C., Marin, A., Halle-Erby, K., Agarwal, P., Meixi, Cortez, A., Nzinga, K., Tayne, K., Davis, N., & Patel, L. (2020). Deepening Perceptions of Learning: Studying and Designing Ethical Practice With Researchers, Teachers and Learners. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 430-437). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
BOOK
- Cortez, A., & Lizárraga, J. R. (under contract). Language, Literacy, Youth & Culture (Volume 6 of The Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education). London, England: Bloomsbury Publishers.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY
- Cortez, A., & Lizárraga, J. R. (2021). Jotería Studies. In K. K. Strunk & S. A. Shelton (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
- Cortez, A. Speculative activism in video game play: Co-designing imaginaries with educators and young people. Games and Culture.
- Cortez, A. Magic circles, the pedagogical imagination, and teacher learning: Designing toward the fusion of the everyday and the academic. The Journal of the Learning Sciences.
- Cortez, A., Baca, K. (*), Kulick, K. (*), McKoy, A. (*), & Salazar-Nuñez, B. (*). Designing for interdisciplinary and intergenerational collaboration: Social annotation practices for re-generating cultural historical activity theory. Mind, Culture, and Activity.
- Cortez, A., & Lizárraga, J.R. Literacies of world-making in role playing video games: Black, Brown, and Queer futurity in Grand Theft Auto V. Journal of Literacy Research.
- Cortez, A. A tribute to George Floyd on Grand Theft Auto V: Online gaming as a site for speculative activism. Cognition and Instruction.
INVITED REPORTS
- Cheng, M. A., Philip, T. M., Cortez, A., McKoy, A., Sumner, T., & Penuel, W. (2022). Engaging Youth in Envisioning AI in Classrooms: Lessons Learned. In Rapid Community Report Series.
- Penuel, W., & Cortez, A. (2021, January 10). National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Retreat Report. University of Colorado, Boulder.
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
- Kirshner, B., Salazar-Nuñez, B. (*), Cortez, A., & Hipolito-Delgadgo, C. (2021, October 11). Students Learned So Much More During the Pandemic Than We Realize. Just Ask Them. EdSurge. Retrieved from: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-10-08-students-learned-so-much-more-during-the-pandemic-than-we-realize-just-ask-them
- Cortez, A., Lizárraga, J. R., Jurow, A. S., Kirshner, B., Mendoza, E., Paguyo, C., Penuel, W., Shea, M., Schultz, K., Stamatis, K., & Tayne, K. (2020, November 18). 'Dear Professor': On Anti-Blackness and Learning. Inside Higher Education. Retrieved from: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/11/18/group-non-black-scholars-invites-other-professors-help-strengthen-teaching-support