Katina is Deputy Dean and a Senior Lecturer in English K-6 pedagogy and curriculum with research interests in creation of texts - written and multimodal, using a rap get of technologies to support student engagement in learning and improve literacy outcomes for students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She is on a number of editorial boards for international journals. She has worked in primary schools, as a literacy consultant and provided advice on literacy and mulitliteracies to ACARA.