Myriam Jimena Guerra

Myriam Jimena Guerra, PhD, is an associate professor of bilingual education and ESL at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, where she also advises the Master of Science in Bilingual Education program. She holds a master’s degree in education from National Louis University and a bachelor’s degree in social communication from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Her research focuses on biliteracy development, culturally and linguistically diverse learners, bilingual reading instruction, and literacy practices among Spanish-English bilingual children and young adults.

Guerra is a contributor to Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, including the second edition’s chapter on cultural multiliteracies and technology in Latino children’s literature. Her other published work includes research on biliteracy, linguistic empowerment, and Latinx immigrant children’s use of linguistic resources outside school.