Language & Literacy Education
As faculty and students of the Language & Literacy Education Department, we:
- Advocate for equitable and just education systems;
- Strive to disrupt deficit discourses and foster asset-based approaches;
- Cultivate practices that are based on research, theory, and community cultural knowledge;
- Embrace multilingualism and multiliteracies; and
- Engage in research that contributes to evolving understandings of language and literacy education.
Faculty
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Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano
Program Director, TESOL Multilingual Learner Education (Licensure)
Lecturer -

Andrew R. Bottoms
Program Director, Deaf Studies
Senior Lecturer -

Naomi Caselli
Co-Director, BU AI & Education Initiative
Assistant Professor -

Todd Czubek
Senior Lecturer
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Elena Forzani
Assistant Professor
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Katherine Frankel
Chair, Language & Literacy Education
Associate Professor -

Bruce Fraser
Professor Emeritus
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Robert J. Hoffmeister
Associate Professor Emeritus
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Mary E. Hughes
Senior Lecturer
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Laura M. Jiménez
Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Senior Lecturer -

Franklin Jones, Jr.
Lecturer
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Yasuko Kanno
Associate Professor
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Kathy Minhye Kim
Program Director, Language Education
Clinical Assistant Professor -

Amy M. Lieberman
Director, Doctoral Studies
Associate Professor -

Steven J. Molinsky
Professor Emeritus
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Ashley R. Moore
Assistant Professor
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Catherine O’Connor
Professor
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Jeanne R. Paratore
Professor Emerita
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Marnie Reed
Clinical Professor
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Eli Tucker-Raymond
Research Associate Professor
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Beth Warren
Sylvia Earl Professor
Director, Earl Center for Learning & Innovation
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