DIRECTORY LISTING

Office Hours

Fall 2024
Tuesday: 3:30PM-5:00PM + Remote /Flexible Hour
Friday: 2:00PM-3:30PM (On Campus)

Biography

Dr. Melissa L. García Vega is an assistant professor of Early Childhood and Childhood Education at Lehman College, the City University of New York (CUNY). Melissa’s research centers on storytelling traditions rooted in the Caribbean region and diasporas. Her research explores how locality, multilingualism, and transnational experiences inform language identities and development. Her work on Caribbean literature appears in Multicultural books for prek-grade three (Rowman Littlefield, 2023). She has also published in journals such as Voices from the Middle and the Journal of West Indian Literature. She is co-editor of the two-volume anthology on Caribbean children’s literature: Caribbean children’s literature: (Vol.1) History, pedagogy, and publishing and (Vol. 2) Critical approaches (University of Mississippi Press, 2023). She currently is involved in expanding how pre- and in-service teachers use children’s literature collections within the College library as part of their teacher preparation program.