Publications

This is a short list of my key publications.

Books

Ortega, Y. (2025). Pluriversal Applied Linguistics: Implications for Language Teaching and Research from the Global South. De Gruyter Mouton. Link 

Ehlers-Zavala, F., Back, M., & Ortega, Y. (Eds.). (2025). Decolonising Language Teacher Education: Voices from the Global North and Global South. Palgrave Macmillan. (Edited Book). Link 

Articles

Ortega, Y. (2025). Conceptualizing peace and social justice in English language teaching: Moving forward toward La Paz Total in Colombia. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979251343802

Gagné, A., Herath, S., Kalan, A., Ortega, Y., & Rosado-Mendinueta, N. (2025). Teacher educator growth across rhizomatic landscapes of praxis. The Canadian Journal of Action Research, 25(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.33524/cjar.v25i1.717

Artem Research Collective. (2024). Collaborative creative inquiry: An arts-informed approach to transdisciplinary research. The Qualitative Report, 29(10), 2826–2847. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7248

Ennser-Kananen, J., Riuttanen, S., & Ortega, Y. (2024). Towards transknowledging: Epistemic justice matters for language scholars. Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, 18(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.47862/apples.138546

Ortega, Y. (2024). ‘Un futuro mejor para todos’: Towards a critical humanizing English language teaching. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688241262618

Chapters

Goodman, B., Ortega, Y., & Barros, S. (2025). Politics, religion and the empiring of languages in Brazil, Colombia and Ukraine. In J. Setter, S. Dovchin, & V. A. Ramjattan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice. Oxford University Press. Link

Ortega, Y. (2024). Sparking the flame within: From the slums to the academic world. In C. A. H. Parker-Shandal (Ed.), First-Gen Docs: Personal, Political, and Intellectual Perspectives from the First-Generation Doctoral Experience (pp. 70–84). Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/69656

Ortega, Y. (2023). Onward to Pquyquy (or thinking with the heart): Conceptualizing the decolonization of being for language teaching and research. In H. Castañeda-Peña, P. Gamboa, & C. Kramsch (Eds.), Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Research in Latin America: Moving to a Multilingual Mindset (pp. 196–212). Taylor & Francis.

Ortega, Y. (2022). Defying the abyssal line: Towards el Buenvivir in English language Teaching in Colombia. In S. Makoni, A. Kaiper-Marquez, & L. Mokwena (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s (pp. 323–334). Routledge.

Ortega, Y. (2022). Trans[cultura]linguación: An intercultural approach to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. In A. Salmon & A. Clavijo-Olarte (Eds.), Handbook of research on socio-cultural and linguistic perspectives on language and literacy development (pp. 216–238).

Forthcoming

Ortega, Y., Brea-Spahn, M. R., Canagarajah, S., & Walker, N. (In Contract). Routledge Handbook of Neurodiversity and Applied Linguistics. Routledge. (Edited Handbook)

Ortega, Y., Carvajal Medina, N. E., & Barrera Sánchez, J. F. (Eds.). (In Contract). Tejiendo Saberes [Weaving Knowledges]: Southern Language Teaching Experiences towards Pluriversality. Multilingual Matters. (Edited Book)

Ortega, Y., & Tejada-Sánchez, I. (Eds.). (In Contract). Towards a Plurilingual Language Policy in Colombia. Routledge. (Edited Book)