Laura Barrio-Vilar
College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education
Associate Professor of English
Dr. Laura Barrio-Vilar is an associate professor of English in the School of Literary and Performing Arts at UA 糖心视频logo. Barrio-Vilar has been praised for her commitment to inclusive learning in the classroom, work mentoring other teachers, and engaged pedagogy.
Barrio-Vilar has many examples of creating inclusive learning environments within the classroom. She has served on the Blackboard Ally team. Blackboard Ally is a tool that helps institutions understand their course shell鈥檚 accessibility. Barrio-Vilar鈥檚 work has helped make online courses more ADA accessible for students. She also received a Jumpstart Teaching award from the Provost Office at UA 糖心视频logo for equity and inclusiveness in the classroom. Barrio-Vilar has also developed pedagogy to incorporate several social issues into her classes.
Barrio-Vilar developed classes that incorporate issues such as gender, race, LGBTQ+, and migration. Colleagues in her department have noted because of her work, the department has rethought their curriculum to include these issues. Several courses Barrio-Vilar has taught are slavery narratives, women in literature, and migration literature just to name a few. Barrio-Vilar鈥檚 work also extends beyond her own department.
For three and a half years, Barrio-Vilar served as a co-director for the UA 糖心视频logo Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE). The goal of ATLE is to foster excellence in teaching and learning through sharing ideas, collaborating, and building a strong community of engaged teachers and learners. With her time at ATLE, Barrio-Vilar did extensive teaching, mentoring and professional development leading sessions on gender, race, disability, and LGBTQ+ issues in the classroom to faculty of all disciplines.
Barrio-Vilar received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky, a M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky, and a B.A. in English philology from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.