Ileana Jiménez is an Assistant Professor in English Education at Stony Brook University, where she is also an associate with Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and an affiliate with Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS). She completed her PhD in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2024.
Her research focuses on Black and Latina feminisms, feminist and queer pedagogies,
and digital feminist activism in the high school English classroom. She received an
AERA outstanding dissertation award from the Research on Women and Education SIG (American Educational Research Association) in 2025.
As a first generation, queer Latina feminist teacher, she taught Black and Latina
women of color feminisms and queer literature in high schools for over 25 years. She
is well-known for building a global network of critical feminist teachers, scholars,
and activists committed to feminist pedagogies in schools. She has articles in English Journal; Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (LR:TMP); Meridians; and Radical Teacher; and chapters in Gender in an era of post-truth populism: Pedagogies, challenges and strategies (2022) and Youth sexualities: Public feelings and contemporary cultural politics (2018). Selected publications can be downloaded here.
Dr. Jiménez received a Fulbright to Mexico in 2011, where she interviewed queer and
trans students. She was an NCTE Cultivating New Voices Fellow from 2022-2024 (National Council of Teachers of English); a Curriculum Inquiry fellow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
in 2022; and is a developmental editor for the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education. She serves on the Gender & Education Association (GEA) board in the UK. She received her B.A. in English at Smith; M.A. in English at Middlebury;
and PhD at Teachers College, Columbia University.