Teaching

“Dr. Montoya’s class is where I felt like people like me (invisible populations, underserved populations, disposable populations, etc…) are considered worthy of information access and library services. I have a better understanding of critical theory in information science because of this course.” –Anonymous eval. comment
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SELECT COURSES

UCLA

• Spring 2025: IS439, Seminar: Special Collections
• Winter 2025: 202, History of Books and Literacy Technologies
• Fall 2024: 280, Social Science Research Methodology for Information Studies
• Fall 2024: IS 423, Public Libraries
• Spring 2024: IS439, Seminar: Special Collections
• Winter 2024: 291B, Special Topics in Theory of Information Studies: Bibliographical Theories (doctoral level core course)
• Winter 2024: 202, History of Books and Literacy Technologies
• Fall 2023: IS422, College, University, and Research Libraries
• Spring 2023: IS439, Seminar: Special Collections
• Winter 2023: IS289, International and Comparative Library Development: Politics and Conflict 
• Winter 2023: 202 – History of Books and Literacy Technologies
• Fall 2022: IS 423, Public Libraries
• Spring 2022: IS439, Seminar: Special Collections
• Winter 2022: IS289: Justice in Theory and Practice
• Fall 2021: IS422, College, University, and Research Libraries
• Spring 2021: IS439, Seminar: Special Collections
• Winter 2021: IS422, College, University, and Research Libraries
• Fall 2020: IS 423, Public Libraries
• Spring 2017:GE66, Teaching Associate. Debates in Public: The Press and Politics in Los Angeles (66CW). GE66, General Education Clusters, First Year initiatives, UCLA. Los Angeles: The Cluster, Spring Undergraduate Seminar.
• Fall 2016, Winter 2017:GE66, Teaching Associate. Los Angeles: The Cluster. General Education Clusters, First Year Initiatives, UCLA.
• Summer 2016: Information Studies 30: Internet and Society. Teaching Fellow/Instructor of Record, UCLA Department of Information Studies.

California Rare Book School, University of California, Los Angeles

• Summer 2023: CalRBS International: Italy: A Crossroad of Global Print History
• Summer 2022: CalRBS International: Northern Italy
• Summer 2021: UCLA. California Rare Books School (CalRBS). CalRBS Director’s Intensive: Book History and Librarianship through Post- and De-Colonial Lenses
• Summer 2020: UCLA. California Rare Books School (CalRBS). Teaching with Rare Materials: Critical Approaches.
• Summer 2019 : UCLA. California Rare Books School (CalRBS). Better Teaching with Rare Materials.
• Summer 2018: UCLA. California Rare Books School (CalRBS). Better Teaching with Rare Materials.
• Summer 2016: UCLA. California Rare Books School (CalRBS). Teaching Rare Books and Archives with Faculty: Building Pedagogical and Instructional Partnerships.

Indiana University Bloomington

• Spring 2020: Z604 (Master’s Seminar) & Z764 (Doctoral Research Seminar): Critical and Comparative Librarianship.
• Fall 2019: ILS Z503, Instructor, Representation and Organization
• Fall 2019: Z701, Introduction to Doctoral Research in Information Science
• Spring 2019: ILS Z634, Instructor, Metadata
• Fall 2018: ILS Z503, Instructor, Representation and Organization
• Spring 2018: ILS Z503, Instructor,Representation and Organization
• Fall 2017: ILS Z503, Instructor, Representation and Organization