Theresa Burruel Stone

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Biography

Professor Theresa Burruel Stone is Assistant Professor of English Education 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. Professor Burruel Stone’s 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 examines the intersections between critical literacies, ideologies of educational uplift, Latine racialization and vulnerability to racialized violence, settler colonialism, and the contexts of English Language Arts teaching and learning.

At Sonoma State, Professor Burruel Stone teaches courses and advises students within the English Education concentration. She teaches 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 their PhD, they taught English Language Arts (ELA) and Puente ELA at public high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California for eight years.

Professor Burruel Stone completed their doctoral studies in Language, Literacy, and Culture in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Her interdisciplinary and community engaged research has been funded by the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division G and UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. She has presented her scholarship at conferences including the National Council of Teachers of English, American Educational Research Association, American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE), 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. Professor 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 the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Executive Committee (2024-2028).