Teresa Helena Moreno
Assistant Professor • Reference and Liaison Librarian • Liaison
Subject Areas: Black Studies; Performing Arts; Architecture; Art & Art History • Liaison Areas: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Black Studies; College of Architecture, Design and the Arts
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Pronouns: She/Her/Ella
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Teresa Helena Moreno (she/her/ella) is an assistant professor and librarian for Black studies and the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts. Her scholarship critically interrogates library practices and the role of libraries as cultural institutions. Through applying critical methodologies and theories found in feminist studies and ethnic studies, her interdisciplinary research critically examines the impact of libraries and information on the knowledge and intellectual traditions of the global majority. Her recent publications connect abolitionist praxis to librarianship by evaluating the criminalization of information through critical information literacy as well as how libraries can enact carceral care.
Currently she is writing a monograph that seeks to understand how Library of Congress subject headings impact information about diasporic and minoritized communities. Prior to her mid-career shift to librarianship, she co-ran the administration of the Black studies department, taught in the gender studies program at UIC.
Selected Presentations
“Everywhere and Nowhere: Finding My People in the Library.” Keynote address. Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference. 15 May 2025.
“Book Bans and Censorship: Interrupting the Criminalization of Information.” University of Illinois Chicago SparkTalks. 23 January 2025.