Biography
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
Critical literacy
Multimodality
Multilingualism/Multiliteracies
Ethnic studies in K-12 education
Asian American Studies
Children and YA Literature
Multimodality
Multilingualism/Multiliteracies
Ethnic studies in K-12 education
Asian American Studies
Children and YA Literature