McKay School of Education. She researches the language and literacy development of young bilingual students as well as the role of ethnic identity formation for Latino youth. Her recent publications include “Cross-Language Transfer of Early Literacy Skills: An Examination of Young Learners in a Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Elementary School,” in Reading Psychology, and “Examining the Socio-Linguistic Context of Schools and Neighborhoods of Pre-Adolescent Latino Students: Implications for Ethnic Identity,” in the Journal of Language, Identity and Education. Feinauer’s research interests also include the identity development of in-service teachers as they relate to their work with language-minority students in their classrooms.