Biography

Rebecca earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the bilingual and multilingual literacies, transnational literacy practices, and translanguaging practices of emergent multilingual adolescents, particularly those who are speakers of Indigenous languages. She is specifically interested in how young people access and utilize literacy knowledge in their home language(s) to negotiate their participation in new and shifting cultural and linguistic landscapes. She teaches courses in bilingual and multicultural education, theories of language acquisition, and biliteracy and bilingualism at the undergraduate and graduate level.