Bessie Dernikos, Ed.D.
Associate Professor
College of Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Boca Raton Campus | ED 47 - 323
Bessie P. Dernikos
Dr. Bessie P. Dernikos is Associate Professor of Literacies at 麻豆精品视频 (FAU) on the Boca Raton campus. Dr. Dernikos received her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching with a specialization in Literacy Education from Columbia University鈥檚 Teachers College (TC). She also holds a master鈥檚 degree in Reading Specialist from TC and an integrative bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degree in English from Brown University.
Dr. Dernikos teaches undergraduate and graduate literacy courses on curriculum and instruction, assessment and intervention, supervised literacy practicum, children鈥檚 literature, and critical literacies. Her research interests include examining the material, discursive, and affective forces that impact literacy learning for young children. She is Editor of the prestigious聽, a leading journal in the literacy field and a Literacy Research Association (LRA) publication.
Selected Publications
Dernikos, B. P. (2018). 鈥業t鈥檚 like you don鈥檛 want to read it again鈥: Exploring affects, trauma, and 鈥榳illful鈥 literacies.聽Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 1-32.
Dernikos, B. P. (2019). A gender gap in literacy? Exploring the affective im/materiality and 鈥渕agic鈥 of allure with/in a first grade classroom.聽Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 10(2-3), 330-355.
Dernikos, B. P. (2020). Tuning into 鈥榝leshy鈥 frequencies: A posthuman mapping of affect, sound, and de/colonized literacies with/in a primary classroom.聽Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 20(1), 134-157.
Dernikos, B. P. (2020). Tuning into rebellious matter: Affective literacies as more-than-human sonic bodies.聽English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 19(4), 417-432.
Dernikos, B. P., Ferguson, D., & Siegel, M. (2020). The possibilities for 鈥渉umanizing鈥 posthumanist inquiries: An intra-active conversation.聽Cultural Studies 鈫 Critical Methodologies, 20(5), 434鈥447.
Dernikos, B. P., Lesko, N., McCall, S., & Niccolini, A. (2020).聽Mapping the affective turn in education: Theory, research, and pedagogies. Routledge.
Thiel, J. J., & Dernikos, B. P.* (2020). Refusals, re-turns, and retheorizations of affective literacies: A thrice-told data tale.聽Journal of Literacy Research, 52(4), 482-506. *denotes co-first authorship
Dernikos, B. P. (2022). 鈥業 want my [un]happy ending!鈥 Queering聽happily ever after聽with/in a primary classroom. Sex Education, 1-10.