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    Dr. Francisco Torres

    Francisco Torres

    Assistant Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    White Hall
    Contact Information
    Email:
    ftorres2@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-0634

    Biography

    Francisco L. Torres is a Puerto Rican Assistant Professor in the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies. He received his PhD in Literacy from the University of Colorado Boulder, his Master’s degree in English Education from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, and his Bachelor’s degree in English and History at the University of Connecticut Storrs campus. His research focuses on how children, especially Latinx children, take up and complicate the connections among social justice, popular culture, and current events that matter to them. At its core, Torres’ work is theoretically driven by critical theories of race, translanguaging, and revolutionary love. His most recent work engaged fifth-grade elementary students enrolled in a bilingual school in conversations of language, representation (race, class, gender, etc.) and advocacy. In this work, students created comics, newspapers, and poems arguing against injustices that mattered to them, like monolingual ideologies at the school, LGBTQIA+ issues, and climate change. His work has appeared in Language Arts, Journal of Literacy Research, English Journal, The ALAN Review, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, and the book Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom. He has been awarded the Cultivating New Voices NCTE Fellowship and the 2019 English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant.

    Education

    Ph.D. in Literacy, University of Colorado Boulder
    M.A. in English Education, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
    B.A. in English & History, University of Connecticut (Storrs)

    Expertise

    Popular Culture
    Critical Theories of Race
    Decoloniality
    Social Justice and Comics/Graphic Novels

    Publications

    • Torres, F.L. & Medina, C. (2021). Cuentos Combativos: Decolonialities in Puerto Rican books about Maria. Journal of Literacy Research
    • Torres, F. L. (2021). Reflection and Action: Revolutionary Love and the Possibility for More Equitable Literacy. Language Arts

      Documents

      PDF icon Curriculum Vitae_Torres.docx
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