Research Spotlight: Dr. Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
Q & A with Dr. Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, Associate Professor in the Department of Bilingual and Literacy Studies
What are your research interests and research achievements?
Espinosa-Dulanto earned her Master and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed her bachelor’s and licentiature’s studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto is an active scholar with a distinguished record of teaching, service, and professional activity. Her teaching and research draw on decolonial indigenous feminist research methodologies. It is recognized by being transnational in scope yet intimately collaborative using poetry, testimonios, ethnography, and art-based qualitative methodologies. Miryam’s scholarly and artistic publications appear both in leading academic journals, handbooks, peer-reviewed books, and regional/local publications that evidence the broad interdisciplinary, community based, and intellectual curiosity of her engagement. Miryam’s work has been published in journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Educational Studies, The International Journal of Multicultural Education, Taboo: The journal of culture and education, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teachers College Record, Counterpoints, The Ethnographic Edge, Decolonizing research in cross-cultural contexts, Ixaya. Revista Universitaria de Desarrollo Social, The Chachalaca Review, and Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (CL/S) among others. A highlight of Miryam’s work is a co-edited special issue (2020) of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Enlazando/rompiendo fronteras in curriculum theory: Testimonio research’s aesthetic dimensions.
What are your current projects?
Miryam is currently working on decolonizing research/teaching/learning through various scholarly projects, including (1) A Deep Dive into Student Testimonios: In Their Own Voices; (2) Enlazando Vidas: A Muxeristas Colectiva, (3) Enlazando/Rompiendo Fronteras con Trabajo, Orgullo y Generosidad, and (4) Creating a Teacher Candidate Learning Community for Mentoring Latinx Freshmen at UTRGV. These four projects are challenging contrived separations between academic and community engagement from within the Latinx tradition of political struggle and pride. All these represent an appreciation of working and supporting each other with a commitment in reflecting/exploring/healing/sharing/learning and doing work that matters.