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Teresa Helena Moreno
Teresa Helena Moreno
Critique As Optimism: Reimagining Information
In an information climate that is increasingly precarious, where do we find hope in how we continue to make information accessible? How can the field buttress the work of access to information by using critical theories for optimism? How can we use forms of critique that allow us to rethink, reframe, and rebuild what information access and information literacy look like? Drawing on multiple lines of inquiry, this interdisciplinary talk challenges some of the dominant practices of the field, including the dominant ideas of information and how we teach, by invoking the history of suppression and censorship of information. Learning from the past, counternarratives, and critical inquiry, this talk invites us to consider new pathways to reimagine access and information literacy in order to enact the goals of our profession.
Teresa Helena Moreno is an educator, librarian and seasoned academic administrator with over 15 years experience in the academe. Trained in feminist methodology, critical ethnic studies, Black feminist theory and interdisciplinary practice, her scholarship, pedagogical praxis, and administrative work are rooted in these approaches.
She is currently an assistant professor in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois Chicago where she is the librarian for Black Studies and the College of Architecture, Design + the Arts. Her approaches to information science are deeply rooted in the inquiry of how we can center and reframe voices of those not reflected in dominant culture and create library practices in support of this effort. She is currently researching the ways the information sciences misunderstands the diaspora and how it works with diasporic content.
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