Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez Profile

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez is a full time English language educator at a public institution in Huila, Colombia. He is a first semester student in the master´s degree in learning and teaching processes in second languages at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez He holds a bachelor degree in the teaching of English as a foreign language from Universidad Surcolombiana and a master´s degree in English language teaching from the same university. In addition to his current studies, he is working as a co-researcher within the framework of the research group “APRENAP” from Universidad Surcolombiana while being also part of a research hotbed at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Some of his interests in terms of research are: language teacher identity, language assessment, the intersection between language teacher identity and autoethnography, interculturality, English as a lingua franca, computer assisted/technology enhance language learning (CALL/TELL), among others. At the moment of writing these words, he is working towards the publication of some articles delving into the just mentioned areas of knowledge.

Work for CID:

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez has translated KC2: Cosmopolitanism, KC17: Multilingualism, KC26: Global-Local Dialectic, KC40: English as a Lingua Franca, KC34: World Englishes, KC37: Dialogic Listening, KC51: Critical Discourse Analysis, KC62: Diaspora, KC68: Social Justice, KC70: Verstehen, KC86: Educación Intercultural Bilingüe, and KC87: Culture Shock into Spanish.

Polina Golovátina-Mora Profile

Dr. Polina Golovátina-Mora is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Medellín (Colombia).

She is an instructor for the PhD Program in Social Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate at the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages. Her current teaching duties focus on introduction to epistemology and graduate seminars on language, culture, and power. She has been a lecturer and visiting professor at universities in Russia, Czech Republic, and Colombia. She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Golovátina-Mora has a doctoral degree in history (Urals Federal University) and a master’s degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the latter as a Fulbright Scholar. She was an Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pultusk Academy of Humanities in Poland.

Her scholarship ranges across different languages and topics. A multilingual writer, she has published and presented her work in English, Russian, Polish, Czech, and most recently, Spanish. Her work includes articles and book chapters on historiography, representations of social processes (collective memory and identity construction, responses to the social structures and pressures). She has presented her work, including conference presentations, plenaries, and invited talks, in Colombia, the United States, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Turkey, Russia, Germany, and Italy. Her most recent research features narrative inquiry and discourse analysis studies on monstrous theory and how fear is constructed in contemporary cities and societies and through popular culture (especially in light of the renaissance of the vampire genre). Recent work (along with her husband, Dr. Raúl A. Mora) includes discussions of social and curricular constructions of bilingualism and multiculturalism and the use of Bourdieusian frameworks to analyze culture.

You can find out more about Dr. Golovátina-Mora’s scholarship through her website and her Academia.edu profile.

Work for CID:
Polina Golovátina-Mora co-authored KC19: Multiculturalism.

Raúl A. Mora Profile

Dr. Raúl Alberto Mora is at present an Assistant Professor in the School Education and Pedagogy Graduate Program at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), in Medellín, Colombia, where he also coordinates the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (ML2).

He is also a faculty affiliate at the PhD in Social Sciences at UPB and the PhD in Education at Universidad Distrital in Bogotá. Dr. Mora’s current teaching duties include preservice language courses and graduate-level seminars on research and literacies in second language contexts. He holds a PhD in Language and Literacy and an MA in Teacher Education, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a Fulbright Scholar and belongs to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

He has written peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on issues of language teaching, literacy, and qualitative research. He has presented conference papers (both on site and virtually) and has participated as plenary speaker in Colombia, Argentina, Spain, India, Vietnam, the United States, and Russia. In addition, he has been a guest lecturer at different universities in Colombia and Spain. He is at present an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, where he also serves as Editor for the Advocacy/Policy Department section. Other editorial duties include the International Review Board for the HETL Review and the Editorial Boards for PROFILE and HOW Journals in Colombia. Dr. Mora also sits on the Advisory Committee for the Colombian Fulbright Commission and has been an educational adviser for the Colombian Ministry of Education.

His research work features membership in the Language and Culture Research Group at UPB and the Teacher Education Research Group at Universidad Distrital. He also chairs the Student Research Group on Second Language (SRG-L2) at UPB. A qualitative researcher by choice and training, he has specialized in the education of novice researchers at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Most of his research includes ethnographic approaches and action research, interspersed with elements of case study research, narrative inquiry, and discourse analysis.

His current research agenda covers the fields of alternative literacies, critical discourse analysis, world languages, socio-cultural theory, and issues of bilingualism and multiculturalism. His research on literacies include the analysis of English literacies in urban spaces of Medellín, Colombia, the description of English literacies in virtual gaming communities in the city, and the development of frameworks to discuss the evolution of the notion of literacy in languages other than English. His work on world languages includes the development of conceptual frameworks that defy the traditional binary of second/foreign language and respond to the language ecologies present in today’s world. Recent studies on critical discourse have analyzed the social imaginaries of teachers in advertisements for online courses and the idea of the trickster in Colombian comedy. His most recent work on Socio-cultural theory has analyzed media and the situation of teacher education in Colombia through the use of Pierre Bourdieu’s social frameworks. Finally, his work on bilingualism and multiculturalism (most of it in tandem with his wife, Dr. Polina Golovátina-Mora) intends to look at the multiple dimensions of bilingualism to give it a stronger social dimension.

You can check Dr. Mora’s website for more details about his academic interests, teaching, and research endeavors, as well as his Academia.edu profile.

Work for CID:

Raúl Alberto Mora wrote KC13: Language Ecology, KC21: Reflexivity, KC36: Counter-Narrative, KC42: Conscientização, KC45: Testimonio, and co-authored KC19: Multiculturalism. He has also reviewed translations into Spanish.