Dr. Glenda Mejia
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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glenda.mejia@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-2913-3854
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
About
These days, Glenda lives, moves, un-learns, works, and breathes on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nations. She uses the pronouns she/her/hers/ella. She was born in the ancestral lands of Náhuat people, known as El Salvador. She completed her PhD at The University of Queensland, Brisbane. Glenda currently teaches in the field of migration/mobility/displacement entangled with memory, and the Spanish language & cultural studies at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, recognising the university as a colonised space and unceded sovereignty of the Traditional Custodians of the Kulin Nations.
Glenda is a facilitator, educator, a scholar and community engaged collaborator with over 20 years of experience working with the Latin American migrant and refugee community in Australia. Glenda is currently a Senior Lecturer of the Global Language Studies program at RMIT University, and one of the few scholars in Australia to have published extensively on topics related to the Spanish-speaking community in Australia such as belonging, memory, and displacement. As a life longer learner, educator and scholar, Glenda is committed to un/re/learning and teaching by engaging and embodying a praxis of senti-pensante pedagogies.
Grants and awards
2024–2025: Creative Australia Grant. Salvadoran displacement: an illustrated bilingual e-publication
2024: Adobe x Creative Curriculum Grant, Diversity, and Inclusion in a digital Spanish book
2014: Award for Teaching Excellence, Higher Education (College of Design and Social Context)
2014–2015: DEEWR Study Overseas Short Term Mobility to La Salle University, Mexico
2011: DEEWR Study Overseas Short Term Mobility Program Study to Javariana University, Colombia
2009: Transition Funding, RMIT University. Aim: to develop listening material for various levels of Spanish
2007: Transition Funding, RMIT University. Aim: to develop a course for the students to prepare for the Spanish Proficiency Test (DELE)
2003: Graduate School Research Travel Award, The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus
2002: Philology Scholarship, Department of Romance Languages, The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus
2002: Nominated for Dean's List Most Effective Teacher Award, The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus
Research fields
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 440303 Migration
- 4406 Human geography
- 47 Language, communication and culture
- 470212 Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
- 360501 Cinema studies
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 15 Life on Land
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- 4 Quality Education
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2016 – Present
- Program Director-Diploma of Languages
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2014 – 30 Dec 2016
- Director Spanish Resource Centre
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2 Jan 2012 – Present
- Convenor of Spanish Studies
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2007 – Present
- Lecturer B - Spanish
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2007 – 31 Dec 2015
- Lecturer A - Spanish
- Griffith University
- Brisbane, Australia
- 2 Jan 2006 – 29 Dec 2006
- Spanish Tutor
- Griffith University
- Brisbane, Australia
- 1 Feb 2005 – 30 Nov 2005
- Spanish Tutor
- University of Queensland
- Brisbane, Australia
- 1 Feb 1996 – 30 Nov 2004
Non-academic positions
- Grant Aid Community Worker
- Lifeline
- Brisbane, Australia
- 1 Feb 1996 – 31 Dec 1998
Degrees
- Bachelor Degree (Pass) Level, Behavioural Science
- University of Southern Queensland
- Australia
- 1996
- Masters Degree by Research, Education
- University of Queensland
- Australia
- 2001
- Graduate Diploma, Education
- University of Southern Queensland
- Australia
- 1998
- Graduate Diploma, Education
- University of Southern Queensland
- Australia
- 1998 – 1998
- Doctorate Research, Mathematical Sciences
- University of Queensland
- Australia
- 2006
- Certificate IV, Teacher Education
- Unknown
- Australia
- 2011
Supervisor projects
- 'Regional' languages of France: perspectives from the grassroots
- 1 Aug 2024
- Feminist Digital Media Politics in Latin America: a counterhegemonic space of gender activism.
- 12 Jul 2024
- Language Culture & International Education
- 29 Jan 2024
- The Tale of Two Slums: The Collective Role of the Urban Poor in Improving Livability of Settlements: Cases from a West African City.
- 22 Aug 2023
- The harms of Child Protection against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children.
- 9 Jun 2023
- The Latin American Migration in Australia. The case of the working holiday visa holders.
- 21 Nov 2022
- International students facing financial stress: Expectations, Realities and Coping Strategies
- 18 Mar 2022
- Pathways and Barriers to Mental Health Services Utilisation among Croatia- and Bosnia and Herzegovina-born Migrants in Melbourne, Australia
- 20 Nov 2020
- Who Cares in Australia? Gender, Ethnicity and the Occupational Transitions of Skilled Migrant Care Workers
- 9 Oct 2020
- What Stratum are you? Narratives of Colombian Migrants Living in Melbourne and how they Experience Socio-economic Stratification
- 28 Nov 2019
- Intersectionality and recent migrants' experiences of inclusion in the Australian workplace.
- 2 Jul 2018
- Mental Health Literacy in the Arabic-speaking Community of Victoria
- 19 May 2017
Teaching interests
• Pedagogy and Decolonisation (Creative practices)
• Sociolinguistics (Language and Identity)
