Theresa Burruel Stone

Office

Advising Area

• Single Subject Credential

Biography

Dr. Theresa Burruel Stone is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Sonoma State University. Her scholarly work draws from the fields of education, ethnic studies, and linguistic anthropology to examine the varied roles of schooling and education within racialized peoples’ desires for and efforts towards dignified lives. Their scholarship analyzes processes and structures of racialization and settler colonialism within places of schooling, emphasizing the literacies, narratives, and politics of place to underscore connections between social practices and material relations. Her recent work engages ideologies of educational uplift in conversation with Latine racialization and vulnerability to racialized violence in addition to expanding critical literacies in response to settler colonialism within the contexts of English Language Arts teaching and learning.

Dr. Burruel Stone has presented her interdisciplinary and community engaged scholarship at conferences including the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE), American Studies Association, and Latinx Studies Association. They are the recipient of the AERA Latinx Research Issues SIG’s 2020 Dissertation Award and the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry's 2021 Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award. Dr. Burruel Stone was selected as a 2021 CAE Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellow and the 2022-2024 NCTE Research Foundation’s Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Fellow. They serve as a member of NCTE’s English Language Arts Teacher Educators Executive Committee (2024-2028).

Education

Ph.D. in Education at the University of California, Berkeley

Courses Taught

At Sonoma State, Dr. Burruel Stone teaches courses and advises students within the English Education concentration of the English major. They teach Youth & Literature; Explorations in Language; Teaching Reading & Responding to Literature; Advanced Composition: Genre, Land, Race & Gender; and Teaching California Histories of Schooling & Education. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D., she taught English Language Arts (ELA) and Puente ELA at public high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California for eight years.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Burruel Stone, T., & Vázquez, A. D. C. (2026). Landscapes of (non)options: Chicana youth making a life within and against cycles of imperialism and policing. Race Ethnicity and Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2026.2622753

Burruel Stone, T., & Rivas, P. (2025). A call to reshape our desires: contesting the “inevitable answer” of inclusion within empire. Race Ethnicity and Education, 28(2), 243–264. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2023.2292513

Burruel Stone, T. (2024). Socializing Latinx college-going youth to (White) Neutral Rationality: Liberal teaching practices and right-wing racisms. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37(9), 2701–2717. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2323491

Burruel Stone, T. & Baratta, T. (2023). Retelling ‘Untold’ Stories (Through Native rather than Settler Perspectives). California English Journal, 29(1), 6-9. https://www.cateweb.org/journals/september-2023/