Sarigianides Receives National Honor for Recent Article

Professor and Coordinator of English Education Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides has received the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Janet Emig Award for her article, “Affecting Social Class Literacy: Classed Emotions in Preservice Teachers’ Lives, Literature Analysis, and Future Teaching,” published in English Education in October 2024. 

This award for exemplary scholarship is given to the author of an article published in the journal English Education during the previous calendar year. The award is given in honor of Janet Emig, Professor Emeritus of English Education at Rutgers University, for her contribution to the field of English Education.

The announcement noted the value of her work: “This piece provided clear and specific examples of how a social class literacy curriculum (SLC) may support pre-service teachers in generating more equitable schooling contexts for all students, particularly those who experience class-marginalization. In examining pre-service teachers’ views of working-class individuals in literature and in their own lives, Sarigianides centers the perspectives of pre-service teachers as they grapple with their own social class identities and their ideas about future teaching. In doing so, Sarigianides offers an innovative approach for teacher educators seeking to challenge class-based assumptions in the work of English teaching and teacher preparation.”

Sarigianides will be recognized as for the award on Friday, November 21, during the 2025 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention in Denver, Colorado.