Alexander Feliciano Mejía

Alex (he/they) is an educator, artist, and researcher focusing on the experiences of communities impacted by racial capitalism, with a focus on the everyday forms of creativity, ingenuity, and solidarity that racialized working class communities engage in. Alex works across essayistic, poetic, and time-based media  including video, film, sound, and book arts. His research methodology is informed by ethnographic and qualitative approaches to the study of language and pedagogy, and he extends these traditions through the incorporation of creative inquiry that draws on his interdisciplinary arts practice. Alex’s work has been showcased in exhibitions, galleries, and film festivals, and published in scholarly journals and literary anthologies. 

Working as an Assistant Professor of Critical Literacy at San Francisco State’s Department of Secondary Education, Alex’s teaching focuses on two areas: arts-based approaches to critical literacy, and discourse analytic approaches to linguistic practice. Both of these areas of teaching support middle school and high school teachers to draw on their own sources of linguistic and creative practice as foundations for pedagogical and curricular design. In addition to teaching at SF State, Alex is also an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing department, working at the intersection of creative writing and experimental cinema.