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Steven Alvarez
Professor of English St. John's University New York, NYBio
Steven Alvarez is Professor of English at St. John's University in Queens. He is the author of Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies (State University of New York Press) and Community Literacies en Confianza: Learning from Bilingual After-School Programs (National Council of Teachers of English). Dr. Alvarez is also the author of four novels in verse. His The Codex Mojaodicus was the winner of the 2016 Fence Modern Poets Prize. Dr. Alvarez’s current research studies Mexican migration in New York City through the prism of food, specifically “taco literacy.” The research project studies foodways narratives among Mexican communities across the five boroughs, examining confianza enacted as literacies through culinary practices and knowledge, bilingual learning, and community resiliency.