Cori Salmerón
Assistant Professor - Language and Bi (Literacy) Education Early Childhood and Elementary Education- Education
Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (specialization in language and literacy studies), The University of Texas at Austin, 2020
M.Ed. in Elementary Education, Hunter College at City University of New York, 2012
B.A. in History, Rice University, 2009
- Specializations
Critical literacy
Translanguaging
Biliteracy
Culturally relevant pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy
Literacy teacher preparation
- Biography
Cori Salmerón is an assistant professor of language and (bi) literacy in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education. Salmerón is a former elementary school teacher in New York City and Beirut, Lebanon. Her teaching and personal experiences led to her research focused on multilingual students’ language and literacy practices, how teachers enact culturally sustaining pedagogy and preparing teachers to work with students from a wide range of cultural and linguistic communities. She teaches undergraduate courses on elementary literacy methods and doctoral courses focused on socio/cultural/historical issues in education and research methodologies.
She has presented at national conferences including the American Educational Research Association, Literacy Research Association and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Her research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary & Secondary Education.
In addition, her research has been published in high-quality literacy, bilingualism and teacher education journals such as the Journal of Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, Bilingual Research Journal, Journal of Teacher Education, Multicultural Perspectives, English Education, Language Arts, Journal of Latinos and Education, and Literacy Research: Theory, Methods, and Practice.
Salmerón is a member of the 2020-2022 NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color (CNV) Cohort. Salmerón was elected to be the historian for the Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group for the American Educational Research Association and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Literacy Research.
She is currently accepting new doctoral students.
- Publications
Salmerón, C., (2024). “It was nice to be able to talk to them like they were family.” A Mexican American preservice teacher’s testimonio. The Journal of Teacher Education, (In press).
Salmerón, C. (2024). “Tira la piedra y esconde el mano: Reckoning with antiBlackness in the Mexican American struggle for educational equity in Texas.” Journal of Latinos and Education, (In press).
Love Jones, R. & Salmerón, C. (2024) “Sweet dreams are made of this: Our vivid dreams for language arts.” English Education. 56(2).
Salmerón, C. (2022). “Elementary translanguaging writing pedagogy: A literature review.” Journal of Literacy Research, 54(3), 222-246.
Salmerón, C. (2022). “Leveraging translanguaging practices in an elementary poetry writing workshop.” Bilingual Research Journal, 45(1), 82-98.
Salmerón, C., Batista-Morales, N., & Valenzuela, A. (2021). “Translanguaging pedagogy as an enactment of authentic cariño and an antidote to subtractive schooling.” Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 15(3), 30-46.
Salmerón, C. & Kamphaus, J. (2021). “Fostering critical translingual writing in an elementary English dominant classroom.” Language Arts, 99(2), 87-98.
Worthy, J., Daly-Lesch, A., Tily, S., Godfrey, V., & Salmerón, C. (2021). “A critical evaluation of dyslexia information on the internet.” Journal of Literacy Research, 53(1), 5-28.
Batista-Morales, N., Salmerón, C, & DeJulio, S. (2019). “Their words, their worlds: Critical literacy in bilingual spaces.” Bilingual Research Journal, 42(4), p.471-490.
Flores, T., Batista-Morales, N., & Salmerón, C. (2019). “Shattering glass ceilings and building bridges: Latina adolescent girls reading and writing the university campus,” Multicultural Perspectives, 21(3), p.137-147.
Mosley Wetzel, M., Khan Vlach, S, Svrcek, N.S., Steinitz, E., Omogun, L., Salmerón, C., Batista-Morales, N.B, Taylor, L.A., & Villarreal, D. (2019). “Sociocultural influences and understandings in literacy teacher education.” Journal of Literacy Research, 51(2), p.138-157.
Skerrett, A., Williamson, T., Warrington, A, Salmerón, C., & Brady, R.B., (2019). “The intersections of identities and justice-oriented efforts of urban literacy educators.” Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 68(1), p.183-204.
Salmerón, C & Valenzuela, A. (2018). “Asuntos, temas, y proyectos principales de la educación de los méxico-americanos en estados unidos: Panorama general.” (traducción del inglés de Mauricio Sanders) ISTOR: Revista de Historia Internacional, 71, 191-208.