Language & Literacy Education
Laura M. Jiménez
Dr. Laura M. Jiménez, BU Wheelock’s associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion and a senior lecturer in literacy education, has always been intrigued by the ways elements such as purpose, person, text, and context, of any given reading event interact to influence reading comprehension and meaning making in the classroom. Studying both literature and […]
Kristin Kane
Kristin Kane is a senior research scientist with the National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She previously served as the senior advisor for the Office of Early Childhood Development in the Administration of Children and Families for the US Department of Health and Human Services. […]
Yasuko Kanno
Dr. Yasuko (“Yasko”) Kanno is an associate professor of language education at BU Wheelock. She is an applied linguist who specializes in immigrant English learners’ access to postsecondary education. A multilingual speaker who has lived in four different countries, Dr. Kanno interrogates how the US K-12 schools systemically marginalize multilingual students of color and works […]
Kathy MinHye Kim
Dr. Kathy MinHye Kim is a clinical assistant professor and director of the Language Education program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work specializes in understanding how adult learners encode and retain second language (L2) knowledge. In particular, she examines how L2 learners develop implicit and explicit knowledge and factors […]
Amy M. Lieberman
Dr. Amy Lieberman is an associate professor in the Language & Literacy Education Department and serves as the director of doctoral studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Lieberman’s research explores how deaf children acquire American Sign Language (ASL), with a focus in how children learn to perceive language and […]
Anna Lim
Dr. Anna Lim is a lecturer in Deaf studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, where she teaches various topics in deaf studies and Deaf education including the dynamics of diversity, oppression, and social justice in deaf communities and sign language structure. Her research interests encompass multilingualism of deaf people of […]
Meghan McCormick
Meghan McCormick is a part-time instructor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a seventh-grade ELA and writing teacher at Joseph A. Browne Middle School in Chelsea, Mass. At the Browne, she serves as a mentor teacher, running coach, and member of the Restorative Justice Leadership Team. She is especially […]
Steven J. Molinsky
Dr. Steven J. Molinsky is professor emeritus at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His primary interest is the development of innovative approaches to teaching English as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language. He taught methodology courses at Boston University for more than 30 years and coauthored more than […]
Ashley R. Moore
Dr. Ashley R. Moore is a critical applied linguist and an assistant professor in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program in the Language & Literacy Education Department at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research program has two main strands: the first pursues the realization of queer-inclusive and […]
Souhaila Nassar
Souhaila Nassar is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy Education department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include supporting multilingual learners in making sense of scientific concepts and writing scientific texts in science classrooms, particularly through translanguaging pedagogy. Before joining BU, Souhaila taught science for middle […]