Hayriye Kayi-Aydar is an Assistant Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA.Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Elizabeth R. Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.Manka Varghese is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.Gergana Vitanova is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA.

This edited volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature on teacher identity with a specific emphasis on teacher agency. The contributors focus on the complexities of teacher agency in a wide range of K-12 and adult education contexts, employing high-level theorizing and innovative research methodologies. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how teachers can and do make a difference.

• Chapter 1. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, Gergana Vitanova: Introduction     Chapter 2. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar: Language Teacher Agency: Major Theoretical Considerations, Conceptualizations, and Methodological ChoicesSECTION I: LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN K-12 CONTEXTSChapter 3. Aliza Fones: Examining High School English Language Learner Teacher Agency: Opportunities and ConstraintsChapter 4. G. Sue Kasun, J. Spencer Clark, A. Jyoti Kaneria & Emmie Staker: “What if you don’t have boots,” let alone bootstraps? An ELL Teacher’s Use of Narrative to Achieve and Generate Agency in the Face of Contextual Constraints              Chapter 5. Amber N. Warren: Language Teacher Agency and High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation: A Positioning Analysis              Chapter 6. Alison Stewart: Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan           Chapter 7. Michele Back: World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use       Chapter 8. Patricia Venegas-Weber: Bi/multilingual Teachers’ Professional Holistic Lives: Agency to Enact Inquiry-based and Equity-oriented Identities Across School Contexts  SECTION II: LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN ADULT ESL/EFL CONTEXTSChapter 9. Emily Edwards: English Language Teachers’ Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis            Chapter 10. Wenjing Li & Peter De Costa: Problematizing English Language Teaching in China through a Local Chinese English Teacher Agency Lens     Chapter 11. Patricia Mayes: Teacher Authority and the Collaborative Construction of Agency in Second Language Writing InstructionChapter 12. Karin Zotzmann: Language Teacher Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective     Chapter 13. Xia Chao: Volunteer Teacher Agency in a Church-based ESL Program: An EthnographyChapter 14. Priti Sandhu: English Language Instructors, Medium of Education, and Professional Agency: An Indian Perspective      Afterword. Anne FeryokIndex