Anthony Voulgarides

Anthony Voulgarides is a doctoral student, secondary English teacher, and teacher leader whose work bridges research and classroom practice at the intersection of adolescent literacy and youth civic engagement. For over twenty years, he has taught in New York City public schools, primarily with first- and second-generation immigrant students in Washington Heights and the Bronx. His classroom practice is grounded in sociocultural approaches to English education and centers students as co-investigators of language, identity, and power.

Anthony integrates traditional instruction in rhetoric and composition with project-based learning, youth participatory action research (YPAR), and critical media studies to connect academic literacy with students’ lived experiences and community knowledge. In addition to his K–12 work, he serves as an adjunct lecturer and cooperating teacher in English Education at Hunter College, where he mentors pre-service teachers in developing equity-centered, critically engaged pedagogies.

His scholarship is guided by a commitment to the integration of theory and practice in pursuit of more just and democratic classrooms.

Conference Presentations

• Looking Back to Look Forward: A Retrospective Case of Youth Media Production and Civic Learning. Roundtable presentation at the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Summer Conference: Legacies of African American Excellence and Future-Making in Teacher Education. Charleston, SC. July 2025.
• “Bigger than us…bigger than a school project”: Media Production Creating Opportunities for Youth Civic Engagement. Presented at AERA SIG Critical Educators for Social Justice. Symposium entitled World Building as a Balm for Civic Education: Graduate Student Research Perspectives. AERA Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. April, 2025.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration for World Building: Roundtable presentation with ELATE Commission on Social Justice – Sustaining Our Commitments to Social Justice Teacher Education. National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, November 2024.
• Critical Media Pedagogy and Critical Consciousness Development: A Retrospective Case. Poster session at National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention. Boston, MA, November 2024.
• L. Ramon Veal Research Seminar. Roundtable session at the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention. Boston, MA, November 2024.
• Teacher Viewpoints: A Conversation on how school leaders can inspire innovation and collaboration across classrooms. Den Talk at Deeper Learning New York Educational Leadership Conference. Kingston, NY. July 2024.
• Cultivating Civic Engagement through Critical Media Pedagogy: A Case Study. Presented at AERA SIG Media, Culture, and Learning. Symposium entitled Critical Media Pedagogies in Teacher Preparation and Practice. AERA Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA. April 2024
• Making Media for Social Action. Deep Dive workshop presentation at Deeper Learning Educational Leadership Conference. San Diego, CA. March 2024.
• Environmental Justice Expedition: A Case of Critical Media Pedagogy, Roundtable presentation at the National Council for Teachers of English Applied Researchers (NCTEAR); Austin TX. February 2024.
• Critical Media Pedagogy: Learning that is Active, Participatory, Engaging, and Authentic; Master Class Presentation at the EL Education National Conference. Denver, CO. December 2023.
• In The Heights! Transforming a Community through Participatory Action Research and Critical Media Literacy; Presentation at the EL Education Virtual Summit. November 2021.
• A Youth Participatory Action Research and Ecomedia Literacy project in New York City’s Washington Heights; Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas (CMLCA); Virtual. October 2021.

• Pursuing Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership, Hunter College. New York, NY.
• M.S.T., English Education. Pace University. New York, NY. 2007.
• B.A., English, Auburn University. Auburn, AL.

• Critical Media Pedagogies, Critical Digital Multiliteracies, Youth Civic Engagement, Critical Consciousness Development, Critical Participatory Action Research

• Voulgarides, A. (2025). “Bigger than Us… Bigger than Us… Bigger than a School Project.” Civic Learning and Youth Media Production Robillard, S., Mirra, N., & Garcia, A. (Eds.), Civic Literacy, Volume 1: Building Civic Futures in K-12 Classrooms. (pp. 29-40). National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).