Biography
Luz A. Murillo (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is an Associate Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas State University. She has previously held positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia; the University of Texas Pan American; and la Universidad de las Américas in Cholula, Puebla-Mexico.
Research Interests
Dr. Murillo is an educational anthropologist who studies the literacies of linguistically and culturally diverse children, families, and communities. Her research projects include studies of indigenous bilingual schooling and community in Colombia and Guatemala; the social construction of literacy in households and primary schools in central Mexico; bilingual family literacies in Mexican-American households on the U.S.-Mexico border, and language ideologies among bilingual and literacy pre-service teachers. Dr. Murillo's work appears in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Language Arts, Qualitative Studies in Education, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Lectura y Vida, the Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association, and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Murillo teaches courses in literacy, language, and culture for researchers and teachers working with multilingual/emergent bilingual learners.