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Deborah Romero is an Assistant Professor in ESL/Bilingual Education in the Hispanic Studies Program at the University of Northern Colorado. She received her Ph.D. in Education with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Language, Interaction and Social Organization, from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in June 2002. She also holds an MA in Educational Psychology from the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico, and a BA in Applied Language Studies from Thames Valley University, Great Britain.
Before coming to UNC, Dr. Romero taught and conducted research at the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has also worked in university-school partnerships and family literacy programs, training and preparing literacy specialists, teachers and pre-service teachers in areas of bilingual and multicultural education, in both the US and Mexico.
At UNC, Dr. Romero is currently teaching HISP 395 (History and Philosophy of Bilingual Education), FL 395 (Second Language Acquisition) and TESL 301/302 (Practicum). Dr. Romero’s research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to bilingualism and biliteracy, second language acquisition, and interaction analysis in mediated activity settings. She has published in both English and Spanish.
