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 project leader for the ML2 program creation (August 2011-December 2012) and its first program coordinator (January 2013-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, 10 of my students already finished their degree, 3 are close to defending, and 3 are working on their theses. I have also served as thesis director in two of our master's programs in education. In 2018, I am also faculty in our Doctorate in Education, where I taught the introduction to critical theory course for three semesters and will be teaching research in 2021. In this program, I also have two doctoral students (three in total, including a student in the PhD 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.
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 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 at the Literacies in Second Languages Project.
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 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 MA in English Language Teaching at Universidad de Córdoba
- 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:
- TESOL Journal Editorial Board
- Reading Research Quarterly (International Literacy Association)
- Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (International Literacy Association)
- International Multilingual Research Journal
- 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 (Oklahoma 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 (Plzeň, Czech Republic)
- Urals Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation)
- Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Pereira, Colombia)