Profile

Audrey Lucero is Associate Professor of language and literacy education in the Department of Education Studies. She is a current co-editor of the journal English Teaching: Practice & Critique. She is also the director of the UO Latinx Studies program, which launched in 2020. In her role as professor, Dr. Lucero teaches courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level. She has chaired 5 dissertations and served as a committee member on many more. Her research interests are always evolving but are centered on schooling for Latinx students and others from marginalized communities, as well as how those experiences influence their identities as literate beings. Her most recent work in this area is focused on critical literacy pedagogy and she is facilitating teacher professional development workshops to this end. She uses critical discourse analysis to analyze the ways in which teachers who participate in professional development discuss race, ethnicity, language, and similar issues both in their classrooms and among themselves. Her recent work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education; Journal of Language, Identity, and Education; Critical Discourse Studies; and The Reading Teacher, among other journals.