邱泰然 / Tairan Qiu

Bio

邱泰然, Tairan Qiu (she/her/她) is a MotherScholar, daughter, partner, teacher, writer, and aspiring artist. She works as an Assistant Professor of English Language Arts Education at Stanford University. Tairan grew up in Kunming, China, and is a first-generation im/migrant in the United States. As a transnational migrant and Asian woman, Tairan’s research is at the intersection of language, literacy, culture, race, gender, and im/migration. Her research agenda is oriented around critically unpacking the dynamic language and literacy practices of transnational youth and families, centering their stories and experiences to shape research-informed advocacy in their schools, communities, and homes, and sustaining their whole cultural, linguistic, and literate repertoire. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, Equity & Excellence in Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Written Communication, and the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.