Marilisa Jiménez García

Marilisa Jiménez García is an associate professor of Children’s Literature and Latinx Studies at  Simmons University. She was also the founding director and principle investigator at Lehigh  University’s Institute of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/cres/).  She is a specialist in youth literature and media, Ethnic Studies movements and pedagogies,  Puerto Rican Studies, and women of color feminism and praxis. Jiménez García’s research has appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn, Research in the Teaching of English, Latino Studies,  CENTRO: A Journal of Puerto Rican Studies, and Children’s Literature. She is the author of Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico and the Roots of American Youth Literature and  Culture (University Press of Mississippi, March 2021) examines the history of colonialism in  Puerto Rico through an analysis of children’s and young adult literature both in the archipelago  and the diaspora. Jiménez Garcia has worked on teaching and curriculum projects with Teaching  for Change, The Children’s Defense Fund, and Sesame Street.