Rate My Professor Carmen Medina

Medina leads the Puerto Rico Critical Literacy Project, launched in 2019 with funding from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant through the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University. In collaboration with Professor Maria del Rocío Costa at the University of Puerto Rico, the project supports pre-service and early-career elementary teachers by developing literacy curricula grounded in Spanish children's literature to address post-Hurricane Maria challenges and promote decolonizing practices. She previously received funding in 2018 for a four-year initiative to enhance teacher skills in critical literacy with young readers and writers. Medina is an affiliate faculty member in the Latino Studies Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her key publications include the co-authored book with Karen Wohlwend, Literacy, Play and Globalization: Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances (2014), and the co-edited volume with Mia Perry, Methodologies of Embodiment: Reinscribing Bodies in Qualitative Research (2015). She holds office hours by appointment in ED 3020.