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Lucia Cardenas Curiel

Lucia Cardenas Curiel
  • Associate Professor
  • CLS Core Faculty
  • Department of Teacher Education
  • College of Education

Biography

Lucía Cárdenas Curiel is an Associate Professor of Bilingual/Multilingual Education in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Her research examines bilingualism, multilingualism, biliteracy development, and multiliteracies practices to advance equitable education for bilingual and multilingual learners. This line of work was recognized with the Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research from the Literacy Research Association for her co-authored article, “A historical inquiry into bilingual reading textbooks: Coloniality and biliteracy at the turn of the 19th century.” She is also the recipient of the National Association of Bilingual Education Dissertation Award and was selected as a research fellow by the National Council of Teachers of English in the Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color program. 

Her research has been published in leading journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Bilingual Research Journal, Language and Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Research in the Teaching of English, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, and Journal of Multilingual Education Research. She previously served as an enrichment specialist at a bilingual elementary and middle school in Monterrey, Mexico, and as a middle and high school Spanish teacher in New York City. 

A first-generation immigrant from Mexico and bilingual Latina scholar, she draws on her experiences as a mother of a bilingual child, a bilingual and Spanish language educator in Mexico and the U.S., and an ESL/(bi)multilingual teacher educator. 

 

Links

https://www.education.msu.edu/search/Formview.aspx?email=luciac%40msu.edu