Rationale and
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LSLP as a research unit, needs to address different constituencies: On the one hand, we have logistic and academic duties related to the Medellín branch and our host institution. On the other, we continue working on our regional and international projection. Addressing the needs and concerns at these levels requires a larger structure. LSLP Leadership brings together several LSLP researchers with specific duties and tasks. Our organizational chart features the following:
(NOTE: We include all members' Discord call sign below their names and, in some cases, their pronouns. We are also including every member's ORCID iD for reference, as that is now a requirement for all Legion members.) |
LSLP's Founder and Chair
Raúl Alberto
Mora, Ph.D. [él/he/han/ele/il/on] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0479-252X (@🎧Kommander DrB👓🐐) |
Bio
Raúl is at present an Associate Professor of English Education and Literacy Studies at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín. He finished his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had the chance to work with worldwide literacy experts such as Reading Hall of Fame members Professors Arlette Willis and Georgia García, New London Group members Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, and other literacy experts. He also holds an M.A. in Teacher Education from Illinois, is a former Fulbright Graduate Scholar, and was inducted to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2009. He has been a teacher for 29 years, including almost 10 years of teaching English in language institutes, as well as elementary and secondary schools. He also taught Spanish as a graduate student, and has worked with pre- and in-service teachers since 2006, both in the U.S. and Colombia. At UPB, he chairs LSLP and is a researcher at the Pedagogy and Didactics of Knowledge (PDS) research group, leading the research line "Second Language Studies". He was the coordinator for the M.A. in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages between 2013 and 2016 and is now part of the program committee in charge of chartering the Doctorate in Education at UPB-Medellín. He is the member of several review boards, including Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Reading Research Quarterly, and International Multilingual Research Journal, to name a few. He holds the top rank of Senior Researcher, according to the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology, since 2019. He has held Visiting Professorships at Universidad Distrital (Bogotá), Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla), Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Universidad de Córdoba (Montería), Universidad del Valle (Cali), and the University of Białystok (Poland). In addition, he has been guest faculty and visiting scholar at Universidad de Nebrija (Spain), Universidad de Málaga (Spain), Universidad de Córdoba (Montería), Universidad Surcolombiana (Neiva), Florida State University (USA), Marie Curie Sklodowska University (Poland), and Urals Federal University (Russian Federation) in addition to invited webinars at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic), and Vanderbilt University (USA). He also has the honor of being the only literacy researcher from Latin America featured at the Global Conversations in Literacy Research webinars from Georgia State University. He currently sits at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Board of Directors and leads the ASOCOPI Literacies in ELT (#LitsELT) SIG. He also served in leadership duties at LRA, NCTE, and ILA over the years, including ad-hoc, award, and search committees. Research Besides the research agendas from the project, his work on literacy is also following the current debates and evolution of the notion of literacy in other languages, in particular about how the notion of literacidad (Cassany, 2005; Mora, 2011, 2012, 2016) in Spanish has become the alternative that best encompasses the current evolution of literacy research worldwide. Due to his research efforts promoting literacies research around the world, Raúl was recognized as one of the 2019 Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research Honorees. He is one of the founding members of the Transnational Critical Literacies Network (TCLN) and co-editor of the Handbook of Critical Literacies (with Jessica Zacher Pandya, Jennifer Alford, Noah Asher Golden, and Roberto Santiago de Roock, edited by Routledge, 2021) |
Associate Chair & Advisory Board
Associate Chair
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Bio
Claudia holds an MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages from UPB-Medellín and other degrees on Language Teaching. At present, she is an English teacher at UPB School and a Adjunct Professor at the School of Education and Pedagogy. She teaches courses at the BA in English-Spanish Education and the Graduate Specialization in ELT. As of 2018, Claudia is the instructor-of-record for the graduate seminar "Literacies in Second Languages" at the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (after assisting as a TA for 4 semesters) and she is also a thesis director in the ML2 program. Research Claudia's current research aims to explore and characterize children's personal literacies in and out of school, using multimodality and multiliteracies as conceptual underpinnings. Claudia was the co-investigator on the research project "21st Century Literacies in the P-16 School Context," which featured a robust component on children's literacies. |
Advisory Board
Mariana
Jaramillo, B.A Candidate [ella/she/elle] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5706-5057 (@littleblonde) #TeamCaL Liaison |
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Ana S.
Zapata, B.A. Candidate https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1882-7757 (@Ana Zapata) #TeamLiLE Liaison - Distance Program |
Tatiana
Chiquito-Gómez, M.A. Hons. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6551-3147 (@Taty_smalls) #TeamLiLE Liaison - Schools |
Glace B.
Aristizábal, B.A. Candidate https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8311-274X (@glace) Community Manager - Instagram |
Vanessa
Cabas, B.A. Candidate https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7115-7895 (@Ness Cabas) Community Manager - TikTok |