Gergana Vitanova’s research interests encompass issues of identity, gender, and agency in language learning and teaching. Her articles appear in national and international journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language and Dialogue, System, CATESOL Journal, and others. She has also written the research book Authoring the Dialogical Self: Gender, Agency and Language Practices (2010), published by John Benjamins, and co-edited the following volumes: Dialogues with Bakhtin: New perspectives on second and foreign language learning (2005), published by Routledge, Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Acquisition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2015) by Multilingual Matters, and Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency (2019, Multilingual Matters). A secondary area of interest has been video games and how these could be applied to language teaching.
She has taught various applied linguistics and ESL courses at Grand Valley State University, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, Harvard University, and abroad.
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