Audrey Lucero is Professor of Language & Literacy Education in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. She is a current co-editor of the journal English Teaching: Practice & Critique. She uses corpus linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze the ways in which pre-service and in-service teachers discuss race, ethnicity, language, and immigration. She also has an interest in critical picturebook analysis. She spent winter term 2025 as a visiting researcher at Lancaster University it the UK. Her recent work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education; Journal of Language, Identity, and Education; Critical Discourse Studies; and The Reading Teacher, among other journals. She is a member of the Literacy Research Association, the American Educational Research Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Children’s Literature Assembly. You can see all of her publications at GoogleScholar.
In her time at UO, she has worked closely with the Center for Latino/a and Latin American studies, the Latinx Strategies group, the Dreamers Working Group, and the Latinx Scholars First-Year Academic Residential Community.