{"id":22071,"date":"2016-07-01T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&p=22071"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:30:25","slug":"laura-jimenez","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/laura-jimenez\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura M. Jim\u00e9nez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Laura M. Jim\u00e9nez is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also the director of the Center for Educating Critically<\/a>. As a white-presenting Latina lesbian, her scholarship and activism center the multiple ways teaching has always been a political act. Additionally, it explores how educators can disrupt and create anti-oppressive, justice-oriented, inclusive classroom experiences for students.<\/p>\n

Previously, Dr. Jim\u00e9nez served as BU Wheelock’s associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion. She is one of the inaugural Boston University D&I Partners Faculty Fellows. Her scholarship looks at the ways marginalized communities are represented in children and YA literature and the ways teachers can learn to critically engage their own teaching practices to include and forefront humanizing pedagogy and the power of modifying existing curriculum.<\/p>\n

She is a founding member of the editorial board of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, <\/em>and a co-editor on the first all queer editorial team for NCTE\u2019s Journal of Children\u2019s Literature, co-editor of Diversity in Graphic Novels: Special Issue <\/em>of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. In addition, she is a co-author of Lee and Low\u2019s 2023 and 2019 Diversity Baseline in Publishing surveys<\/a>. Her work has been published in Journal for Literacy Research<\/em>, Language Arts<\/em>, Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education, Literacy Research and Instruction, <\/em>and other peer reviewed journals, as well as the Boston Globe<\/em>, the New York Times<\/em>, and other media outlets.<\/p>\n

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