English Journal Edwin M. Hopkins Award
2022 Award Recipients
“Se hace camino al andar: Translanguaging Pedagogy for Justice” (Vol. 111 No. 5, May 2022) by Luz Yadira Herrera and Carla España
Luz Yadira Herrera, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at California State University, Channel Islands. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students and Translanguaging Collections: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners with Dr. Carla España.
Carla España, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and Puerto Rican/Latinx and Latin American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students and Translanguaging Collections: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners with Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera.
Honorable Mention:
“An Archeology of Self for Our Times: Another Talk to Teachers” (Vol. 111 No. 5, May 2022) by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is Associate Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research has appeared in several top-tier academic journals. She is co-editor of three books, and co-author (with Detra Price-Dennis) of Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces. She is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Project@TC Series where for 14 years, national scholars, doctoral, and pre-service and in-service Master’s students, and young people facilitate informal conversations around race and other issues involving diversity and teacher education for the Teachers College / Columbia University community. Yolanda has appeared in two documentaries: 2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright (directed by Spike Lee), and Defining Us: Children at the Crossroads of Change (directed by Connect with Kids). She is author of two full-length volumes of poetry: Love from the Vortex & Other Poems and The Peace Chronicles. Yolanda is currently working on a poetic memoir about her experience of growing up in the South Bronx during the 1980s.
This award will be presented at the Secondary Section Event during the NCTE Annual Convention.