Bartlett, L. (2009) The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Vavrus, F. and Bartlett, L. (eds) (2009) Critical Approaches to Comparative Education: Vertical Case Studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Comparative and Development Education series.

Holland, D., C. Lutz, D. Nonini, L. Bartlett, M. Frederick, T. Guldbrandsen, and E. Murillo. (2007) Local Democracy Under Siege. New York: New York University Press. Winner of the 2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America book award.

Bartlett, L. (2008). Literacy's Verb: Exploring What Literacy Is and What Literacy Does. International Journal of Educational Development 28, 6, 737-753.

Bartlett, L. (2007) Bilingual Literacies, Social Identification, and Educational Trajectories. Linguistics in Education 18, 3-4, 215-231.

Michael, A., Andrade, N., and Bartlett, L. (2007). Figuring "Success" in a Bilingual High School. Urban Review 39, 2, 167-189.

Garcia, O. and Bartlett, L. (2007). Educating Speech Communities: An Unusual School Model for Latino Newcomers in an Era of Standards. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10, 1, 1-25.

Bartlett, L. (2007) Human Capital or Human Connections? The Cultural Meanings of Education in Brazil. Teachers College Record 109, 7, 1613-1636.

Bartlett, L. (2007). Literacy, Speech, and Shame: The Cultural Politics of Literacy and Language in Brazil. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 20, 6, 1-17.

Bartlett, L. (2007). The Comparative Ethnography of Educational Projects: Youth and Adult Literacy Programmes in Brazil. Compare 37, 2, 151-166.

Bartlett, L. (2007). To Seem and to Feel: Situated Identities and Literacy Practices. Teachers College Record 109, 1, 51-69.

Reprinted as Bartlett, L. (in press) To Seem and to Feel: Engaging Cultural Artifacts to "Do" Literacy. In New Literacy Studies, Global and Local, edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mike Baynham. London: AILA and John Benjamins Publishers. Due out in 2007.

Vavrus, F. and Bartlett, L. (2006). Comparatively Knowing: Making a Case for the Vertical Case Study. Current Issues in Comparative Education. (on-line at http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/Archives/8.2/82vavrus_bartlett.pdf )

Bartlett, L. (2005). Dialogue, Knowledge, and Teacher-Student Relations: Freirean Pedagogy in Theory and Practice. Comparative Education Review 49, 3, 344-364.

Bartlett, L. (2005). Identity Work and Cultural Artifacts in Literacy Learning and Use: A Sociocultural Analysis. Language and Education 19, 1. 1-9.

Bartlett, L. (2003). Common Roots, Shared Shortcomings: Conceptions of Power in Freirean Literacy and Alternative Development. Den Ny Verden (The New World). Aarhus, Denmark.

Bartlett, L. (2003). Social Studies of Literacy and Comparative Education: Intersections. Current Issues in Comparative Education 5(2). http://www.tc.columbia.edu/CICE/

Bartlett, L. and Holland, D. (2002). Theorizing the Space of Literacy Practices. Ways of Knowing Journal 2, 1, 10-22.

Bartlett, L., Frederick, M, Gulbrandsen, T., and Murillo, E. (2002). The Marketization of Education: Public Schools for Private Ends. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 33, 1, 5-29.

Bartlett, L. (2001) Women Teaching Class: Emotional Labor in Brazilian Literacy Classes. The Anthropology of Work Review 22, 3, 22-26.

Bartlett, L. and Lutz, C. (1998). Disciplining Social Difference: Some Cultural Politics of Military Training in Public High Schools. The Urban Review 30, 2, 119-136.

Bartlett, L. and Lutz, C. (1995). JROTC: Making Soldiers in the Public Schools. Education Digest 61, 3, 9-12.