Current Appointments
I am at present a full-time Associate Professor at UPB-Medellin. My primary appointment is in the School of Education and Pedagogy Graduate Program. As part of my appointment in the graduate program, I am currently teaching the research courses at the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (Maestría en Procesos de Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Segundas Lenguas) or ML2. I also had the honor of being the first program coordinator for ML2 between January, 2013 and June, 2016 and was the instructor-of-record for the seminar "Literacies in Second Languages" between 2013 and 2017. As a thesis director in ML2, seven of my students already finished their degrees and one is working on his thesis. I have also served as thesis director in two of our master's programs in education and beginning this year, I am an instructor at the Doctorate in Education, where I teach courses on research methods and introduction to critical theory, hoping to extend my participation to include work on literacies and second language studies.
My secondary appointment is in the BA in English-Spanish Education. I teach the course on Methods and Approaches to the Teaching of English and I direct all the senior theses from the undergraduate researchers from the Literacies in Second Languages Project.
Most of my current research happens through the Literacies in Second Languages Project, a research initiative I chair. There, I am working and doing research with preservice teachers and master's students interested in issues of second language literacies. I also serve as deputy director for the Pedagogies and Didactics of Knowledge research team, where I coordinate the Second Language Studies research line.
In addition to my teaching and research duties at UPB, I have joined several universities in Colombia and abroad as visiting faculty or visiting scholar:
My secondary appointment is in the BA in English-Spanish Education. I teach the course on Methods and Approaches to the Teaching of English and I direct all the senior theses from the undergraduate researchers from the Literacies in Second Languages Project.
Most of my current research happens through the Literacies in Second Languages Project, a research initiative I chair. There, I am working and doing research with preservice teachers and master's students interested in issues of second language literacies. I also serve as deputy director for the Pedagogies and Didactics of Knowledge research team, where I coordinate the Second Language Studies research line.
In addition to my teaching and research duties at UPB, I have joined several universities in Colombia and abroad as visiting faculty or visiting scholar:
- Visiting Professor at the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education at Universidad Distrital in Bogotá.
- Affiliate Professor at the Doctorate in Social Sciences at UPB-Medellín.
- Visiting Professor at the MA in English Teaching at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla.
- Visiting Scholar at Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
- Visiting Scholar at Universidad de La Sabana in Chía.
- Visiting Scholar at Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Professional Networks
Here's a list of salient research and academic networks on which I am currently involved:
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS:
ACADEMIC NETWORKS:
GUEST LECTURES:
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS:
- Literacy Research Association Technology Committee - Three-year term 2016-2019
- Reading Research Quarterly (International Literacy Association)
- Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (International Literacy Association)
- PROFILE Journal (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
- Confluence India
ACADEMIC NETWORKS:
- Learning by Design Project (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Center for Intercultural Dialogue (USA)
- Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research (Florida State University)
- Global Conversations in Doctoral Preparation (Georgia State University)
- MakEY Project (University of Sheffield/European Union)
GUEST LECTURES:
- Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
- Universidad Distrital (Bogotá, Colombia)
- Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
- Universidad de Córdoba (Montería, Colombia)
- Universidad Surcolombiana (Neiva, Colombia)
- Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
- Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid, Spain)
- Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
- Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
- University of West Bohemia (Plzn, Czech Republic)
- Urals Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation)