36.039 - Literature SIG Business Meeting. Multi-SIG Event: Conversation and Reception With Texas Poet Laureate Dr. Carmen Tafolla

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

Join us for a conversation and reception with Texas Poet Laureate Dr. Carmen Tafolla.
A renowned storyteller, performance artist, and professor of bicultural and bilingual studies, Dr. Tafolla will address the connections between poetry, multilingualism, and multiculturalism within today’s educational climate for children. Dr. Tafolla is the author of more than 20 books for children and adults and is the recipient of the prestigious Americas Award, five International Latino Book Awards, two Tomas Rivera Book Awards, two ALA Notables, the Charlotte Zolotow Award, and the Art of Peace Award.

Co-sponsors of this event include the Arts and Learning SIG; Bilingual Education Research SIG; Hispanic Research Issues SIG; Literature SIG; Second Language Research SIG; and the Writing and Literacies SIG

Sub Unit

• SIG-Literature

Participants

• Susan Hopewell, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Jen Katz-Buonincontro, Drexel University

• Margarita Machado-Casas, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Amanda Kibler, University of Virginia

• Jessica Zacher Pandya, California State University - Long Beach

• Katrina Emily Bartow Jacobs, University of Pittsburgh

• Matt Omasta, Utah State University

• Deborah K. Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder

• Augustina Reyes, University of Houston

• Peter Ignatius De Costa, Michigan State University

• Kathy Ann Mills, Australian Catholic University

• Denise Davila, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• David Eric Low, California State University - Fresno

• Brianne Dávila, Cal Poly Pomona

Papers

• Chapter and Verse: Opportunity and Equality for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Children at School - Carmen Tafolla, The University of Texas - San Antonio