About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M-San Antonio, where I research the intersection of writing program administration, community colleges, and critical race theory.
I completed my Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). At UTEP, I taught a variety of undergraduate writing course and a graduate course in Writing Program Administration. I also served as the Assistant Director of the
As a scholar in rhetoric and composition, my interests in community colleges was sparked by working at two community colleges in central California. My dissertation, “Community College WPAs: Implementing Change Through Advocacy” examines the work of writing program administrators/directors/coordinators at several community colleges across the United States to give a much needed comprehensive understanding and voice to the work of writing program directors at two-year colleges. Furthermore, my research in race and writing program administration are influenced by my personal experiences as a Latina in higher education and the cultural wealth students of color bring to the writing classroom. Even though more than half of the undergraduate student body population in the United States attends community colleges, the work of writing program administrators at two-year colleges is vastly underrespresented in rhetoric and writing studies.
My research has led me to collaborate and co-author a chapter titled, “Tenemos que hacer la lucha: Reflections of Latin@s in Rhetoric and Writing Studies,” which is forthcoming in an edited collection titled Lingua Franca: First Generation Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication. I have also co-authored a chapter, titled “Dismantling writing assessment: towards collaborative rubrics,” which will be incorporated in an edited collection titled Beyond the Frontier: Innovations in First Year Composition to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2017. I have presented my research at international and national conferences, such as CCCCs, NCTE, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the International Writing Centers Association, the Latin American Writing Center Conference, and the Two-Year College English Association.
I completed my Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). At UTEP, I taught a variety of undergraduate writing course and a graduate course in Writing Program Administration. I also served as the Assistant Director of the
As a scholar in rhetoric and composition, my interests in community colleges was sparked by working at two community colleges in central California. My dissertation, “Community College WPAs: Implementing Change Through Advocacy” examines the work of writing program administrators/directors/coordinators at several community colleges across the United States to give a much needed comprehensive understanding and voice to the work of writing program directors at two-year colleges. Furthermore, my research in race and writing program administration are influenced by my personal experiences as a Latina in higher education and the cultural wealth students of color bring to the writing classroom. Even though more than half of the undergraduate student body population in the United States attends community colleges, the work of writing program administrators at two-year colleges is vastly underrespresented in rhetoric and writing studies.
My research has led me to collaborate and co-author a chapter titled, “Tenemos que hacer la lucha: Reflections of Latin@s in Rhetoric and Writing Studies,” which is forthcoming in an edited collection titled Lingua Franca: First Generation Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication. I have also co-authored a chapter, titled “Dismantling writing assessment: towards collaborative rubrics,” which will be incorporated in an edited collection titled Beyond the Frontier: Innovations in First Year Composition to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2017. I have presented my research at international and national conferences, such as CCCCs, NCTE, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the International Writing Centers Association, the Latin American Writing Center Conference, and the Two-Year College English Association.