Kathleen C Colantonio-Yurko

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Kathleen C Colantonio-Yurko, Ph.D

(She/Her/Hers)

Associate Professor

(585) 395-5468
kyurko@brockport.edu
Office: Brown Building 206

Education

• PhD, University of Florida
• MA,Clemson University
• BA, Virginia Tech

Areas of Specialty

• Children’s Literature
• Literacy
• English Language Arts (Teacher Education)

Research Interests

• Children’s Literature
• Young Adult Literature
• Critical Literacy
• Adolescent Literacy
• Third Culture Kids

• Recent Publications

  Selected Recent Publications 

  Colantonio-Yurko, K., Abugasea Heidt, M., & Szilagyi, J. (2023). Third Culture and Cross-Cultural Kids: Supporting Bi/Multilingual Students with Many Cultural Identities and Experiences. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 96(2), 52-60.

  Colantonio-Yurko, K. C., Adams, B., Boehm, S., & Miller, H. C. (2023). Boundaries, objectification, and gender norms: Addressing sexual and gender-based harassment with middle grade literature. Middle School Journal, 54(1), 23-31.

  Miller, C., Boehm, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K., & Adams, B. (2022). Himpathy, herasure, and down girl moves: A critical content analysis of sexual assault in young adult literature. Journal of Literacy Research, 54(3), 298-321.

  Adams, B., Colantonio-Yurko, K Miller, C., & Boehm, S. (2022). Beyond perpetrators, victims, and survivors: Young adult literature as bystander intervention education. ALAN Review, 49(3), 42-52.

  Colantonio-Yurko, K., Boehm, S., & Olmstead, K. (2021). There Are No Rewards for Girls Who Are Too Spirited’: Schools as Gaslighting Mechanisms in Girls with Sharp Sticks. Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, 4(1), 8.

  Colantonio-Yurko, K., Miller, H. C., & Cheveallier, J. (2018). ” But she didn’t scream”: Teaching about sexual assault in young adult literature. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 14(1), 1-16.

  Boehm, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Olmstead, K. & Miller, H.C. (2020). Athlete as agitator, assaulter, and armor: sports, identity, and sexual assault in young adult literature. Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, 4(2), 31-56.

  Boehm, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Olmstead, K., & Miller, H.C. (2021). When princesses become dragons: Critical literacy, Damsel, and confronting rape culture in English classrooms. Girlhood Studies, 14(3), 72-89.

  Miller, H., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Boehm, S. (2020) Confronting concerns, navigating politics: Teaching young adult literature in high school English departments. English Leadership Quarterly. 42(4) 1-10.

• Presentations

  Colantonio-Yurko, K., Boehm, S., & Miller, H. C​, ​Adams, B., Mertens, G. E., . (2023, ​November). Challenging Rape Culture in Canonical Texts with Contemporary Adaptations in the Secondary Classroom. ​NCTE Annual Conference. ​Columbus, OH. ​

  Adams, B., Mertens, G. E., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Boehm, S., & Miller, H. C. (2023, March). Pairing canonical texts with contemporary young adult adaptations to challenge rape culture. Journal of Literacy Innovation Annual Conference. Virtual.

  Miller, C., Svrcek, N., & Colantonio-Yurko, K.C. (2022, June). Young adult and children’s literature as professional development for social justice. Leadership for Professional Learning Symposium, Dublin, Ireland.

  Boehm, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K (2021, November). The Athlete Identity as Protection: Sexual Assault in YA. Round Table Presentation at National Council of Teachers of English, Online Conference.

  Boehm, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Olmstead,K. (2021, November). Gaslighting in YA: When Females Fight Back. Panel Presentation at National Council of Teachers of English, Online Conference.

  Miller, C. Svrcek, N. Colantonio-Yurko, K. (2021, September). Engaging in Contemporary Social and Politics Topics using Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Presented at Mornings with the Professors, SUNY Brockport.