CREEO Visiting scholar: Spring 2025
Dr. Yuan is a 2024–2025 Faculty Fellow in AI Education as part of CUNY’s Building Bridges of Knowledge initiative. She is also a faculty representative in the 2024–2026 cohort of the Scratch Foundation’s Scratch Education Collaborative, which focuses on equitable, creative computing in K–16 classrooms.
Dr. Yuan’s research critically and passionately examines the intersections of literacy, race, culture, and technology. Her work includes exploring computing and digital literacies in early literacy curricula, embodied multimodality in children’s language and literacy practices, and how children and pre-/in-service teachers from diverse backgrounds engage in creative literacies within multilingual, multicultural, and/or technologically rich contexts.
Before transitioning to higher education teaching and research, Dr. Yuan was an English teacher in Shanghai, China. She earned her B.A. from East China University of Political Science & Law, an M.A. in Curriculum and Teaching (Elementary Education) from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.
