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The second Faculty Pub Night of the 2024-25 season features Dolores Delgado Bernal, professor of educational leadership and administration (School of Education). She will discuss her recent co-authored article, "Feminista pláticas as a methodological disruption: drawing upon embodied knowledge, vulnerability, healing, and resistance."

About Faculty Pub Night

Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the public are all invited to the 2024-25 series of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eight LMU professors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse perspectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire community. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.

About the Author's Work

Guided by Chicana/Latina scholars that have written explicitly about the methodology of feminista pláticas, this article positions feminista pláticas as a methodological disruption in educational research. We argue that embodied knowledge is a necessary part of a feminista plática methodology; it centers our bodymindspirit and the power of vulnerability in the research process. Through a discussion of emotions, language, and the relationship between feminista pláticas and testimonio, we illustrate how this methodology can be used to heal from and resist traditional research approaches that are rooted in whiteness, colonial logics, and white supremacy. A feminista plática methodology creates a space where we can be our most authentic selves and work with and for our collaborators. We conclude with a discussion on positionality and areas that merit further examination in a feminista plática methodology.

About the Author

Dolores Delgado Bernal earned her Ph.D. from UCLA as a first-generation college student. She is a professor of educational leadership and administration and an American Educational Research Association Fellow. Previously at Cal State LA, she served as chair for the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies and then as Associate Dean for the College of Ethnic Studies. She’s a scholar-activist whose scholarship bridges the fields of education and ethnic studies and whose passion is in femtoring students. Her scholarship draws from Chicana feminist studies, critical race studies, and decolonial methodologies to investigate educational (in)equity, Latinx educational pathways, feminista pedagogies, and different forms of student resistance. She has published more than 40 articles/chapters and has co-authored/co-edited four books. Her scholarship and femtoring have been recognized with numerous awards including, the American Educational Research Association Distinguished Scholar Award, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Tortuga Award, and Critical Race Studies in Education Association Derrick Bell Legacy Award. Her biggest award is being mamá to three wonderful sons.

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