Lucía Cárdenas Curiel

Dr. Lucía Cárdenas Curiel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She is a former enrichment specialist at a bilingual elementary and middle school in Monterrey, Mexico and middle and high school Spanish teacher in New York City. Her research examines the conditions that allow emergent multilingual language learners (EMLLs) to succeed academically in elementary schools. Lucia’s research has centered on pedagogical spaces supporting EMLLs biliteracy development by focusing on multimodal texts read and taken up inside the school curriculum. She was the 2018 winner of The National Association of Bilingual Education Dissertation Award. Her work contributes by looking at the intersection between pedagogical knowledge, literacies, and linguistic repertoires. This intersection allows engagement from the classroom, to teacher education programs, and research and theory. Dr. Cárdenas Curiel was selected as a research fellow by the National Council of Teachers of English in the Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color program from 2018 to 2020. Her work has been published at Reading Research Quarterly, Bilingual Research Journal, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, and Journal of Multilingual Education Research. She is currently serving as associate editor of The Reading Teacher.