Dr. Mar铆a Estela Brisk's specialties are bilingual education, bilingualism and literacy development, particularly writing development and instruction. She is the author of four books including,聽Engaging Students in Academic Literacies: Genre-based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms聽(New York: Routledge, 2015);聽Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education聽(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and聽Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling聽(Second Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). She is also the co-author of three books:聽Literacy and Bilingualism: A Handbook for All Teachers聽(Second Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates);聽Language Development and Education: Children with Varying Language Experiences (Palgrave MacMillan); and聽Situational Context of Education: A Window into the World of Bilingual Learners聽(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
Brisk served as Chair of the TESpECI Department from 2007鈥�2012. In 2016, she received the won the AERA Bilingual Research SIG Lifetime Achievement Award and was appointed chair of the 2018 International System Functional Congress. Brisk has been a translator, Spanish instructor for the U.S. Peace Corps, and even served as an expert witness on several court cases on desegregation and bilingual education. She was a long-standing member of the Board of Editors for the聽Bilingual Research Journal.
