Ruth Quiroa

Ruth E. Quiroa, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Reading, Language, and Literacy at National Louis University. A former kindergarten and Spanish-English bilingual second-grade teacher, she teaches graduate courses in children’s and young adult literature. Her research focuses on the history of Latinx children’s and young adult literature and the impact of culturally diverse literature on K–12 teaching practices.

Quiroa co-authored the chapter “Beyond Calaveras and Quinceañeras: Fostering Bilingual Latino Students’ Identity Development with Culturally Relevant Literature” in Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, Second Edition. She has also published research on Spanish in Latino children’s literature and Latinx children’s picture books, and has served on selection committees for the Américas, Pura Belpré, Randolph Caldecott, and Jane Addams awards.