Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., O’Connor, K., Fuller, J. (2026). Subversive Power of Intersectionality: Counterstory
Analysis of Biracial and Multiracial Microaggressions Among School-age Learners. In T.Y, Austin & M.E. Ebsworth’s (Eds.) Building Antiracist Communities: A Focus on Intersectionalities. Multilingual Matters.
Reyes, J., Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2026). Pedagogy of the intentionality of listening: Advocating for the voices of
bi- and multilingual learners to be heard. In M. Chung, J. Pollitt, & Yu, G.’s (Eds.) The right to be heard: Listening as a transdisciplinary practice. Routledge.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Iaiennaro, T., Clay, J., Imomov, O., Boltaeva, R., Zhang, J. (2025) Transforming
dissertations into global & career-advancement-centered doctoral digital portfolios: Interweaving research rigor with social media dissemination. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice (CPED Journal), 10(3), 45-52. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2025.506
Rodney, T.K., Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2025). Pushing the boundaries of white colonial epistemologies to create
transformative learning experiences. In A. Valquaresma, L.D. de Paula, & T.K. Rodney (Eds.), Creativity and learning:
Transformative perspectives for complex and contemporary environments, (pp. 331-346). Palgrave McMillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73393-2_13
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2023). When immigrant mothers of color become public school teachers for
English language learners: Intersectionality for transformative teacher preparation. TESOL Quarterly, 57(4),1066-1090. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3171
Fyfe, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Yu, G., Reyes, J. (Eds., 2023). Supporting Emergent Bilingual and
Multilingual Children through the Reggio Emilia Approach: Affirming Children and Family Rights with Research and Practice. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Affirming-the-Rights-of-Emergent-Bilingual-and-Multilingual-Children-and/Fyfe-Lee-Johnson-Reyes-Schroeder-Yu/p/book/9781032267340?utm_source=individuals&utm_medium=shared_link&utm_campaign=B043991_am3_1au_6rm_t013_1al_ip23
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2023). Whitewashedness in Teacher Education: Intertextuality Between
Colorblindness and the Ferguson Event. Urban Education, 58(3), 518–546. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042085919857803
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Fair, K., O’Connor, K., Rodney, T., Ono, J., Dixon, T. (2023). Reflexivity
for restorying the ontological and epistemological truths in qualitative research. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 8(4), 43-49. https://impactinged.pitt.edu/ojs/ImpactingEd/article/view/339
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Flewellan, V., Fair, K., O’Connor, K., Dixon, T., Ono, J., Spencer, A., Singler, J., Schmuke, M., Hanses, J., Barton, A., & Rodney, T. (2022). Adapting an Ethnographic Research to an Online Survey Amid COVID-19: Transformative Lens in Educational Research. In Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2022). The transformative power of co-researching. Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange, Spring Issue, p. 13.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). Critical chronotopic analysis for disrupting whitewashedness in TESOL teacher education. In C. Matias (Ed.) The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education. Routledge.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). Defying “Those Who Cannot, Teach” and Other Stereotypes about Teachers: Analyzing the Just Because Poems Written by ESOL Teacher Candidates. TESOL Journal, 13(2), e636, 1-27.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Kuo, H. (Eds., 2021). This is the worst of times; this is the best of times: Juxtaposing the crisis and opportunities for Asians in the global context. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Spring Special Issue. https://benjamins.com/catalog/japc.31.1
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2016). “That is not very American”: A microethnographic discourse analysis of a Chinese
ESL learner’s appropriation of cultural values at an art exhibition. TESOL Journal, 8(3), 716-739. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.301
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Jiang, Y., & Li, Y. (2016). Comparing the digital literacy repertoire among college students in China and the USA. Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, 4(4), 64-80. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309591606_Digital_Literacy_Competence_of_College_Level_Students_in_China_and_the_USA
Cited in Yates & Rice's (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society. Oxford University Press.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L (2015). A qualitative study of the out-of-class learning opportunities constructed by five ESL freshmen and their native speaking peers in a college town. Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, 10(2), 120-134.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2015). The troubled sense of otherness among Christian and non-Christian ESL freshmen at a Christian college in the Midwest. International Christian Community for Teacher Education Journal, 10(2).
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/icctej/vol10/iss2/6/
Lee, Y.L. (2013). Telling the life histories of adult immigrants learning English as a second language in the USA: A chronotopic approach informed by Bakhtin’s Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel. Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2(1), 22-34.
Lee, Y.L. (February, 2013). Review of “Enhancing practice through classroom research: A teacher’s guide to professional development”. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 56(5), 426-428.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41827847
Lee, Y.L. (2013). Adult literacy. In J. Ainsworth (Ed.), Sociology of education: An a-to-z guide. (Vol. 1, pp. 16-17). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452276151.n7
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/sociology-of-education/n7.xml
Lee, Y.L. (2013). IQ. In J. Ainsworth (Ed.), Sociology of education: An a-to-z guide. (Vol. 9, pp. 396-398). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452276151.n209
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/sociology-of-education/n211.xml
Lee, Y.L. (2012). Reappropriating my professional identity as a nonnative speaking ESL instructor in a college town. TESOL NNEST Caucus Newsletter, February issue.
Lee, Y.L. (2011). Conceptualizing the dialogic discourse between adult immigrants and their learning resources in an ESL class. Ohio TESOL Journal, 4(1), 16-18.
Lee, Y.L. (2010). The application of Bakhtinian theories on second language reading comprehension: A qualitative case study. Reading Matrix, 10(2), 222-242.