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, specifically in our doctoral program, where I teach courses on critical theory and qualitative research. I am also mentoring three doctoral students (plus another PhD candidate in Philosophy). 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 at the Literacies in Second Languages Project.
Previous work at the School of Education and Pedagogy involved my participation in the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (Maestría en Procesos de Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Segundas Lenguas) or ML2, where I was also the project leader for the ML2 program creation (August 2011-December 2012) and its first program coordinator (January 2013-June 2016) and taught seminars on literacies and research. As a thesis director in ML2, 12 of my students already finished their degree and 1 is close to defending. I have also served as thesis director in two of our master's programs in education.
Most of my current research happens through the Literacies in Second Languages Project, a research lab I chair. There, I am working and doing research with preservice teachers and graduate students interested in issues of second language literacies. I am also a researcher in the Pedagogies and Didactics of Knowledge research group, where I coordinate the Second Language Studies research line.
Previous work at the School of Education and Pedagogy involved my participation in the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (Maestría en Procesos de Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Segundas Lenguas) or ML2, where I was also the project leader for the ML2 program creation (August 2011-December 2012) and its first program coordinator (January 2013-June 2016) and taught seminars on literacies and research. As a thesis director in ML2, 12 of my students already finished their degree and 1 is close to defending. I have also served as thesis director in two of our master's programs in education.
Most of my current research happens through the Literacies in Second Languages Project, a research lab I chair. There, I am working and doing research with preservice teachers and graduate students interested in issues of second language literacies. I am also a researcher in the Pedagogies and Didactics of Knowledge research group, where I coordinate the Second Language Studies research line.
National and International Appointments
In addition to my teaching and research duties at UPB, I have joined several universities in Colombia and abroad as visiting faculty, visiting scholar, and guest lecturer:
Visiting Professor
Visiting Scholar
Guest Lectures
Visiting Professor
- MA in English Language Teaching at Universidad de Córdoba (Montería, Colombia)
- Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education at Universidad Distrital (Bogotá, Colombia)
- MA in English Teaching at Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia)
- MA in Bilingual Education at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia)
- Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education, ELT Emphasis at Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia)
- University of Białystok (Dept of English Philology) (Poland)
Visiting Scholar
- Marie Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin, Poland)
- Universidad de La Sabana (Chía, Colombia)
- Urals Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation)
Guest Lectures
- Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
- Universidad Surcolombiana (Neiva, Colombia)
- Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
- Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA)
- Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid, Spain)
- Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
- Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
- University of West Bohemia (Plzeň, Czech Republic)
- Urals Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation)
- Universidad de Guadalajara (México)
- University of Stavanger (Norway)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU (Trondheim, Norway)
Professional Networks
Here's a list of salient research and academic networks to which I currently belong:
Board of Directors
Editorial and Advisory Boards
Academic Networks
Board of Directors
Editorial and Advisory Boards
- TESOL Journal Editorial Board
- Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (International Literacy Association)
- Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
- Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies
- HOW Journal
Academic Networks