Regan Postma-Montaño, Ph.D.
Senior Academic Writing Consultant Associate Graduate Faculty
Research and Writing Development Center - EdD-LOC
Regan Postma-Montaño serves as Graduate Writing Coordinator in the Research and Writing Development Center within the EdD, Learning and Organizational Change Program. She is a teacher-scholar of hemispheric literatures of the Americas, focusing on justice issues in contemporary Latin American and Latinx youth literatures and cultures. Fluency in Spanish and English allows her to identify strategic intersections between Latin American and US contexts and to facilitate meaningful partnerships. Dr. Postma-Montaño earned her BA from Hollins University and her MA and PhD from the University of Kansas in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies.
In addition to her co-authored book, Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature (U of New Mexico P, 2022), she has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, and Women’s Studies. Dr. Postma-Montaño is currently at work on a monograph on resistance and activism in Latin(x) American youth literatures and cultures. Chapters of this book project will alight, for example, on Afro-diasporic experience in Costa Rica and the Caribbean, environmental justice in Mexico, and the legacy of Anne Frank in the Southern Cone.
As a first-generation teacher-scholar, Postma-Montaño is passionate about catalyzing change around issues of equity and access in education. In addition to teaching courses on justice issues, she served as director of Step Up, an academic mentoring program for underserved youth through Michigan’s Americorps, and led a Mellon-funded community-based partnership with non-profit organization Ready for School which created mini-libraries of Spanish, English, and bilingual books for new Habitat for Humanity homes, pediatricians’ offices, and preschools to address literacy gaps through the power of culturally responsive stories.
A newcomer to Texas, Postma-Montaño enjoys exploring the Texas culture and landscapes along with her spouse (Jesus, Baylor Department of English) and their energetic Labrador, T-Bear.