So Jung Kim joins UTEP in Fall 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Literacy/Early Childhood Education in the Department of Teacher Education. She earned her doctoral degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She maintains active interest in the areas of multicultural literature, teaching for social justice, literacy instruction for young diverse learners, biliteracy development, and multicultural education. As a former teacher in both Korea and the US, she taught English/Korean reading and writing at various institutions.
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