About

Dr. Linares is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Literacy, Technology, and Multilingual Education in the College of Education at Rowan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the bilingual and multilingual literacies, transnational literacy practices, and translanguaging practices of emergent multilingual adolescents, particularly those who are speakers of Indigenous languages. She is specifically interested in how young people access and utilize literacy knowledge in their home language(s) to negotiate their participation in new and shifting cultural and linguistic landscapes. She teaches courses in bilingual and multicultural education, theories of language acquisition, and biliteracy and bilingualism at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Rebecca has spent extensive amounts of time in schools and classrooms in the United States, as well as in rural Indigenous schools in Peru where she studied in Quechua-Spanish bilingual classrooms. She has presented her work at several prestigious academic conferences and published in various peer-reviewed outlets. She was recently selected as one of eight early-career scholars to participate in the Literacy Research Association’s STAR (Scholars of color Transitioning into Academic Research institutions) Mentoring Program as part of the 2018-2019 cohort.

Dr. Linares previously held an appointment in Equity, Bilingualism, & Biliteracy at the University of Colorado Boulder (2020-2023) and in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University (2017-2020).