Bio

I, 邱泰然, Tairan Qiu (she/her/她), am an Assistant Professor of English Language Arts and Literacy Education in the Graduate School of Education. Prior to my doctoral studies, I was an ELA and ESOL teacher. As a transnational migrant and East Asian woman, my research is at the intersection of language, literacy, culture, race, gender, and im/migration. My 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 change in their schools, communities, and homes, and sustaining their whole cultural, linguistic, and literate repertoire.

I am committed to working in and with historically marginalized communities through community-centered research, teaching, and service. For example, funded by the Community Literacies Collaboratory, I am the co-founder of the University of Houston-Project Row Houses Community Literacies Center in Third Ward, Houston, TX. This arts-based Community Literacies Center offers weekly multiliteracies events for predominantly Black, Asian, Latiné, and translingual children, youth, and caregivers, where they celebrate their vibrant literacy practices in community with one another. Currently, I am working with a collective of nine transnational Girls of Color to narrate their transnational and translingual literacies and advocacy in and across their respective communities.

Academic Appointments

Honors & Awards

  • Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Fellowship Fellow, National Council for Teachers of English (2024-2026)
  • STAR (Scholars of color Transitioning into Academic Research institutions) Mentoring Program Fellow, Literacy Research Association (2024-2026)
  • Emerging Scholar Fellowship Fellow, Reading Hall of Fame (2023-2025)
  • Macagnoni Qualitative Research Award, Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodologies Program, University of Georgia (2022)
  • Carol J. Fisher Award for Research, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia (2021)
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Office of Instruction and Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia (2021)
  • Graduate Education Advancement Board Fellowship, University of Georgia Graduate School (2020)
  • FIRST Robotics Peachtree District Chairman’s Award, FIRST Robotics Competition (2019)
  • Outstanding Merit Award, Office of International Education, University of Florida (2016)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Co-Chair, Multilingual & Transnational ICG, Literacy Research Association (2024 - Present)
  • Mentoring Committee Co-Chair, Language and Social Processes SIG, American Educational Research Association (2023 - Present)

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Georgia, Language and Literacy Education
  • M.A.Ed., University of Florida, Bilingual Education
  • B.A., Purdue University, Secondary English Education

Contact

  • Academic
    tairan@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Assistant Professor

Additional Info

Links

Research Interests

  • Adolescence
  • Civic Education
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Diversity and Identity
  • Equity in Education
  • Immigrants and Immigration
  • Literacy and Language
  • Parents and Family Issues
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Research Methods
  • Secondary Education

All Publications

  • Black and Latina Girls' Compositions of Multimodal Community Journaling as Multimodal Artifactual Literacies About STEAM JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACY Ellison, T., Qiu, T., Robinson, B. 2025; 69 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/jaal.70012

    View details for Web of Science ID 001513244600008

  • Here, There, and In-Between: The Poetic Narratives of a Transnational Family's Translingual, Multiliterate, and Trans-Geographic Reality READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY Qiu, T. 2025; 60 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/rrq.70002

    View details for Web of Science ID 001450494900001

  • "We Have to Be Everything at a Time America Tells Us that We are Nothing": enacting justice as praxis as women of color in education INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION Hsieh, B., Hong, J., Moten, T., Qiu, T., Smith, D. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1080/09518398.2024.2318266

    View details for Web of Science ID 001169149400001

  • Writing Bravely: Nurturing Emergent Bilingual Student Agency through a Translingual Writing Process English Journal Qiu, T. 2024; 114 (1): 92-101

    View details for DOI 10.58680/ej2024114192

  • From <i>Black Girl Exclusion</i> to <i>Black Girl Empowerment</i>: Understanding one Black girl's digital and STEAM literacy practices as empowering, liberatory, and agentic INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION Ellison, T., Qiu, T. 2023; 36 (3): 465-486

    View details for DOI 10.1080/09518398.2022.2025493

    View details for Web of Science ID 000984135600015

  • "I Feel Your Fear": (Counter)stories of East Asian International Doctoral Students About Awakening, Resistance, and Healing EQUITY & EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION Qiu, T., Fu, S., Yeom, E., Hong, J. 2023; 56 (1-2): 240-254

    View details for DOI 10.1080/10665684.2023.2174211

    View details for Web of Science ID 000935760400001

  • Interrogating (Proximity to) Whiteness: Asian(American) Women in Autoethnographic Sister Circles QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Qiu, T., Resman, J., Zheng, J. 2023; 29 (8-9): 941-955

    View details for DOI 10.1177/10778004221150010

    View details for Web of Science ID 000930314100001

  • Co-constructing Knowledge: Critical Reflections from Facilitators Engaging in Youth Participatory Action Research in an After-School Program JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION Qiu, T., Kas-Osoka, C., Mizell, J. D. 2021; 17 (2)

    View details for Web of Science ID 000755099000017

  • Arts integration in diverse K-5 classrooms: Cultivating literacy skills and conceptual understanding (Book Review) JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION Book Review Authored by: Qiu, T. 2020; 16 (2)

    View details for Web of Science ID 000607277900029

  • Examining African American Girls' Literate Intersectional Identities Through Journal Entries and Discussions About STEM WRITTEN COMMUNICATION Ellison, T., Robinson, B., Qiu, T. 2020; 37 (1): 3-40

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0741088319880511

    View details for Web of Science ID 000497911700001

  • Dinosaur Empire!: Journey through the Mesozoic Era (Book Review) JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION Book Review Authored by: Qiu, T., Chen, X. 2018; 14 (2)

    View details for Web of Science ID 000458449300019

  • Invisible Asians: Korean American adoptees, Asian American experiences, and racial exceptionalism (Book Review) QUALITATIVE REPORT Book Review Authored by: Qiu, T. 2018; 23 (7): 1717-1719

    View details for Web of Science ID 000444164100016

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