Rate My Professor Panayota Gounari

Gounari maintains a prolific publication record, including the monograph From Twitter to Capitol Hill: Far-Right Authoritarian Populist Discourses, Social Media and Critical Pedagogy (Brill, 2022). Key publications also feature 'Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!': Teaching in Authoritarian Times in Disrupting Hate: Teacher Activists, Democracy and Pedagogies of Disruption (Routledge, 2021); Teaching and Learning Language in Dangerous Times, introduction to the special issue on Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in L2 Teaching and Learning (L2 Journal, 2020); Education in the Trump era: Activism as critical public pedagogy (International Journal of Critical Media Studies, 2019); Authoritarianism, discourse and social media: Trump as the 'American agitator' in Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (University of Westminster Press, 2018); The Necropolitics of Austerity: Discursive Constructions and Material Consequences in the Greek Context (Fast Capitalism, 2016); Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia in Reclaiming the Sane Society (Springer, 2014); and co-authored volumes Hegemony of English (Routledge, 2015) and Globalization of Racism (Routledge, 2015). She co-edited A Reader of Critical Pedagogy (Gutenberg, 2010). In 2022, Gounari co-led the five-year, $2.9 million CREATE program grant to train 120 teachers, emphasizing BIPOC bilingual educators, for English learners across eight Greater Boston districts. She teaches courses including Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, Psycholinguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues in Critical Pedagogy, and Language Policy.