Biography and education
Dr. Mohit P. Mehta comes to Texas State University with 20 years of experience in K-20 education in diverse teaching environments including Central Texas bilingual/dual language schools, and community-based education programs in Guatemala, Nicaragua, India and Palestine. His diverse research interests including culturally and linguistically sustaining teacher education; ethnic studies in K-12 education; critical literacy; multimodality and multilingualism. He has contributed to curriculum projects with the UCLA Asian American Studies "Foundations & Futures" online digital textbook, the South Asian American Digital Archive, and in helping co-design the first Asian American Studies high school course in Round Rock ISD. He is a National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Cultivating New Voices (CNV) Fellow (2024-2026) and recipient of the Dissertation of the Year Award from the Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Education and Research (AAPI-ER) SIG in the American Education Research Association (AERA).
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Mehta, M. (n.d.). Chinese People and Dogs are Not Allowed:” Asian American Youth Enacting Racial Literacy through Critical Multimodality. Language Arts, 103(1).
- Mehta, M. (2025). “Addressing Raciolinguistic Ideologies with Multilingual Asian/American Learners". English Journal, 115(1), 94–97.
- Moparthi, I., Nguyen, A., & Mehta, M. (2024). “The Fight for Asian American Studies in a Red State: Voices from Texas". In Moments & Movements in Asian American Studies: Myers Education Press.
- Mehta, M., & Leila Grace Pandy. (2022). Stories of our Elders: Creating an Online Space to Safeguard Our Own Stories During Anti-Asian Hate. Language Arts, 100(1), 63–67.
- Mehta, M. (2022). Using Digital Archives to Teach Early South Asian American Histories,” Mohit P. Mehta. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 34(3), 19–24.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dissertation of the Year, Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Research-SIG, American Education Research Association (AERA). January 2025 - April 2025
- Award / Honor Recipient: Cultivating New Voices Fellowship, National Council for Teachers of English. November 1, 2024 - July 1, 2026
Featured service activities
- Other
American Education Research Association (AERA)-Asian American Pacific Islander-AAPI in Research and Education Special Interest Group (SIG)
- Member
National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Assembly for Research (NCTEAR)
- Coordinator / Organizer
Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i
- Other
Tomás Rivera Book Award Committee
- Organizer
Asian American Studies Academy, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers in Texas
- Organizer
Asian American Studies Pilot Course