Dr. Victoria Gill is a poet, practitioner-scholar, former teacher of English at the middle school level, and former team leader of professional learning communities. She obtained her doctorate in Reading, Writing, and Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of @LanguageLegacies, an educational social media account on Instagram created with colleague Dr. Río Lopez from New Mexico State University, to resist against language loss within their families and communities.
Dr. Gill investigates the intersections of language, identity, and power as they relate to literacies and pedagogies in ways that create pathways for teachers to build inclusive classrooms that center historically excluded perspectives and voices. Her research examines how students' learning and teachers' teaching can be impacted by understanding and using the theory of Intersectionality with aims for equity and agency with a focus on Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Her current literacy research project analyzes award-winning Asian American picture books and explores the quality of intersectional ethnic representations.