Christina Passos DeNicolo

Christina Passos DeNicolo is an associate professor of teacher education at Wayne State University. She holds a Ph.D. in social, multicultural, and bilingual foundations of education from the University of Colorado Boulder, an M.A. in elementary education from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in communication and Spanish from Western Michigan University. Her areas of expertise include two-way immersion, language arts, and children’s literature.

DeNicolo’s research examines how children’s literature and other instructional practices support students’ literacy and language development, particularly in bilingual and multilingual classrooms. She contributed the chapter “Embracing the Complexity of Language: Bringing All Forms of Knowledge into the Language Arts through Latino Children’s Literature” to Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, and has co-authored research on testimonio, bilingualism, translanguaging, and school belonging.