Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Biography

Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer is the John E. Swearingen Chair of Education and Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. Bauer teaches courses in literacy. Her research focuses on the literacy development, instruction, and assessment of students (preschool-grade 5) from diverse linguistic, economic, and cultural backgrounds, with a specific focus on bilingual literacy.

Bauer’s research examines the sociocultural contexts in which literacy takes place and the various roles of the participants. In conducting her research she has combined two qualitative techniques, ethnography of communication with ethnographic case study research, to develop a method for systematically documenting and analyzing oral and written discourse, the literacy artifacts and contexts in which the discourses are displayed, and the settings in which the language and literacy events occur. A key element of her method is the creation of analytic layers (oral, textual, participant, setting), and the triangulation of evidence gathered across these layers to interpret the complexity of the events being studied. Given the research questions that she explores, her work is longitudinal, typically involving one to five years of data collection and requires extensive audio- and videotaping, transcriptions, and/or equal amount of time devoted to analysis.

Bauer has been co-Principal Investigator and a senior researcher on two United States Department of Education grants and was the recipient of two Spencer Foundation grants. Bauer served on a number of national committees such as Member of National Research Agenda Planning Panel for ELL Students; NAEP Reading Framework Study Comparison Expert Panel; and Member of the Spencer Foundation Special Panel on Reconceptualizing and Reducing Risk in Early Childhood Development.  Since Spring 2016, Bauer’s dual language research site became part of an NSF funded PIRE project situated at Penn State and University of California at UC Irvine.  Bauer is the director of Bilingualism Matters @ the University of South Carolina.

Selected Publications

Books Authored or Co-Authored

Bauer, E. B., Salmeron, C. & Espinoza, C. M.(forthcoming). Latine and African American Learners in K-12 Dual Language Classrooms: Exploring Multilingualism and Literacy. Multilingual Matters Press. 

Bauer E. B., Sanchez, L., Wang, Y. with Vaughn, A. (Eds.) (2022). A transdisciplinary bilingual education: Bridging translanguaging, social cultural research, cognitive approaches, and student learning. Routledge.

Selected Chapters and Articles

Bauer, E. B. & Guerrero, S. L. (2026). Fourth Graders Theorizing Language: Emergent Bilinguals’ Understandings of Bilingualism and Biliteracy in Dual Language Bilingual Education Program. Research in the Teaching of English, 60(4), 393-420.  https://doi.org/10.58680/rte2026604393.

Bauer, E.B, Razfar, A., & Espinosa de Rosales, C. M. (April 2026). Literacy and Bilingualism. In Carol A Chapelle’s Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2^nd Eds). Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0727.pub2

Espinosa de Rosales, C. M., Bauer, E.B., Sanchez, L. (2026). Loving, Luchando, and Literacy: Bilingual Latinx Mothers and the Power of Testimonios in a Community Book Club. The Reading Teacher, 80(1), e70069. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.70069.

Bauer, E. B., Sanchez, L., (2024). “I Have Magic in My Mouf!”: Embodied Languaging Enactments of African American Multilingual Students in a Spanish-English Immersion Program. Linguistics and Education, Linguistics and Education, 83, 1-11.

Sánchez, L., Bauer, E.B., Wang, Y., Guo, W., Hao, L., & Hwang, K. (2023). “That’s my mission”: Examining parents’ investments in their emergent bilingual learners’ development. Bilingual Research Journal, 46, 224-238.

Dobbs, C. & Bauer, E.B. (2023) Understanding Black voices in Bilingual Programs. In Juan A. Freire, Cristina Alfaro, and Ester de Jong (Eds). The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education. Routledge.

Wang, Y., Sánchez, L., Bauer, E, Guo, W., Hao, L, & Hwang, K. (2023). A new language, a new culture, and a new way of thinking: Examining how parents navigate barriers to support their emerging multilingual learners. In V.J. Lee & K.S. Lewis Grant (Eds.), Advancing culturally responsive and socially just approaches to multilingual family-school partnerships. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing.

Bauer, E. B., Salmeron, C. & Carnesales, L. (2022). Peer mediation during primary grade literacy instruction in bilingual classrooms. In Zeynep Camlibel (Eds.) Supporting Skill Development in Early Second/Foreign Language Learning (pp. 49-62). Pegem Akademi.

Bauer, E. B. & Sanchez, L. (2022). “In Mexico, I was someone, but here I am nobody:” An immigrant mother and daughter moving beyond love to facilitate new ways of being.  In A. Razfar and P. Smith, (Eds.), Learning about love through narratives: Insights from immigrant literacies (Special Issue). International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education,1-23.

Editorships of Journals

• Lead Editor, Journal of Literacy Research, December 2021—December 2024
• Lead Editor, Journal of Literacy Research, December 2018—December, 2021
• Co-Editor, Theory into Practice, Summer 2019
• Co-Editor, Literacy Research, Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017-2020

Research/Areas of Expertise

• Literacy and families
• Culturally and linguistically diverse students and their parents
• Early childhood literacy
• Bilingualism and biliteracy
• Dual language programs