Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kells CV
University of New Mexico
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
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MICHELLE HALL KELLS
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University of New Mexico Office Humanities #325
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies 1829 Sigma Chi Rd. NE mkells@unm.edu Albuquerque, NM 87131
Dissertation: Legacy of Resistance: Héctor P. García, the Félix Longoria Incident, and the Construction of a Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, Texas A&M University, College Station. May 2002.
Dissertation: Legacy of Resistance: Héctor P. García, the Félix Longoria Incident, and the Construction of a Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric.
M.A. English, Texas A & M University-Kingsville. May 1995.
Thesis: Basic Writing: A Gateway to College for Mexican Americans of South Texas.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies, August 2023 to present.
Associate Professor, Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies, August 2022.
Associate Professor, Department of English, August 2008 to 2022.
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, August 2004 to July 2008.
Visiting Scholar, University of Louisville. October 2012.
Visiting Scholar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. July 2001.
Lecturer, Texas A&M University. August 2002 to August 2003.
Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University. August 1997 to May 2002.
Visiting Instructor, Texas A& M University-Kingsville. June 1995 to May 1997.
Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. August 1993 to May 1995.
Research Assistant, (Latin American Studies) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. May to August 1993.
Special Assistant to the Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of New Mexico, November 2011 to May 2013.
ADMINISTRATIVE & LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of New Mexico, June 2022 to May 2024.
Special Assistant to the Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of New Mexico, November 2011 to May 2013.
Coordinator, Writing Across Communities, Department of English, University of New Mexico, November 2004 to May 2014.
Director, Rhetoric & Writing, Department of English, University of New Mexico, August 2010 to May 2011.
Interim Director, Rhetoric & Writing, Department of English, University of New Mexico, August 2008 to May 2009.
Interim Director, Graduate Studies Program, Department of English, University of New Mexico, January to May 2009.
Associate Director, University Writing Center, Texas A&M University, September 2003 to August 2004.
$2020 University of New Mexico Notable Service Award.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Conference of College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award
$2020 University of New Mexico Notable Service Award.
$2013 The Best of Rhetoric & Composition Independent Journals Outstanding Essay Award.
2019 Nominated Rhetoric Society of America Best Book Award.
2018 The Best of Rhetoric & Composition Independent Journals Outstanding Essay Award.
$2013 The Best of Rhetoric & Composition Independent Journals Outstanding Essay Award.
$2011-2013 Senior Fellow. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy.
2012 University of New Mexico Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award and Teaching Fellow. (Nominated March 2012).
2012 Conference of College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award (Contributing Author: “Mapping Cultural Ecologies of Language and Literacy.”) Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Eds. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Matsuda. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010: 204-11.
$2011-2013 Senior Fellow. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy.
$2006 Texas State Senate Resolution in Recognition of Book Release: Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights (Texas State Senate October 12, 2006).
2009-2010 University of New Mexico Faculty Research Sabbatical.
2007 Nominated Conference of College Composition and Communication Best Book Award.
$2006 Texas State Senate Resolution in Recognition of Book Release: Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights (Texas State Senate October 12, 2006).
$2002 Texas A&M University Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award.
2005 University of New Mexico Department of English Keleher/Hendon Junior Faculty Award.
2004 University of New Mexico Undergraduate Research & Creativity Colloquium Class Award.
$2002 Texas A&M University Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award.
$2001 South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Dissertation Research Scholarship.
2001-2002 L.T. Jordan Institute International Fellow to Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain.
2001 Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Graduate Student Research.
$2001 South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Dissertation Research Scholarship.
2001 Texas A&M University, Department of English Cresswell Award for Excellence in Teaching.
1996 Conference of College Teachers of English Award for Best Paper in Rhetoric.
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GRANTS
2023 The Center for Regional Studies Faculty Research Grant. Public Rhetorics and Colonized Representations of Indigenous Peoples of the Gila Wilderness Bioregion.
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$2022 McCune Foundation Grant for Southwest Environmental Education Coalition Community-Engagement Summer Program. SWEEC origin story https:
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2023 Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies. Ancestral Gila Homelands: Indigenous Kinship Ties and Land Ethics—2,000 Years, Before and Beyond.
2023 Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico. Western Sky Community Care Grant. 100th Anniversary of the Gila National Forest: Celebrating the Natural and Cultural History of the Gila Wilderness: Before and Beyond.
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$2020 Crossing Latinidades Pilot Project Co-Investigator for University of Illinois, Chicago Mellon Foundation Research Consortium with Levi Romero and Ralph Cintron Climate Change Group (sponsored by the University of Illinois, Chicago).
Albuquerque BioPark International Rhino Day YouTube Video SWEEC Event https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSAE9Ugz2Q
2021 The Center for Regional Studies Faculty Research Grant with Levi Romero for Mi Cultura Cura: Testimonios de la Nueva Mexicanos Digital Archive Project. https://www.miculturacura.org/projects https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pkgul8GdHvQ
$2020 Crossing Latinidades Pilot Project Co-Investigator for University of Illinois, Chicago Mellon Foundation Research Consortium with Levi Romero and Ralph Cintron Climate Change Group (sponsored by the University of Illinois, Chicago).
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2018 The Center for Regional Studies Faculty Research Grant for Local 890 Salt of the Earth Recovery Project.
2016 College of Arts and Science Faculty Subvention Grant for Vicente Ximenes, LBJ’s Great Society and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric.
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$2006 University of New Mexico College of Arts and Science Faculty Subvention Grant for Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights.
2008 Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Research Grant, “Vicente Ximenes & LBJ's Great Society: The Rhetoric of Mexican American Civil Rights Reform.”
2007 International Writing Center Diversity Research Grant, “Writing Across Cultures: Tutoring Enthnolinguistically Diverse Students.”
$2006 University of New Mexico College of Arts and Science Faculty Subvention Grant for Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights.
$2003 Texas A&M University, Undergraduate Research Opportunity (Research Assistant) Grant
2005 University of New Mexico, Research (RAC) Grant, “Vicente Ximenes and President Lyndon B. Johnson: The Role of the Inter-Agency of Mexican American Affairs in Post-World War II Mexican American Civil Rights Reform.”
2004 University of New Mexico, Teaching Allocations (TAS) Grant, “Improving First-Year Composition: Assessing Writing Experiences and Language Attitudes of First-Year UNM Students.”
$2003 Texas A&M University, Undergraduate Research Opportunity (Research Assistant) Grant
$2001 Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence Multicultural Teaching Incentive Grant
2002 Texas A&M University Center for Humanities Research Grant
2001 Race and Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University Research Grant
$2001 Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence Multicultural Teaching Incentive Grant
$1995 Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish) Honor Society, Texas A & M University-Kingsville.
HONORS
2002 Phi Kappa Phi, Texas A&M University.
$1995 Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish) Honor Society, Texas A & M University-Kingsville.
$1983 Psi Chi, San Diego State University.
1995 Sigma Tau Delta, Texas A & M University-Kingsville.
1993 Alpha Chi, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi.
$1983 Psi Chi, San Diego State University.
1983 Distinction in Psychology, San Diego State University.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books: Single Author Monographs
Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric.
Southern Illinois University Press. January 2018. (332 pps.)
Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights. Southern Illinois University Press. December 2006. (286 pps.)
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Books: Co-Edited Volumes
Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities. Co-editor with Laura Gonzales. Syracuse University Press. February 2022. (292 pps).
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Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education. Co-editor with Valerie Balester and Victor Villanueva. Heinemann/Boynton-Cook. (2004). (147 pps).
Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines. Co-editor with Valerie Balester. Heinemann-Boynton/Cook. (1999). (188 pps).
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Peer Reviewed Articles
Mi Cultura Cura: Solastalgia, Querencia, and the EcoPoetics of Nature and Culture. Vol. II. Special issue “The U.S. Southwest as Land, Landscape, Place, and Environment” of Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts in the Greater Southwest Vol. 3 (Fall 2023/Spring 2024).
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“Doing Democracy: The Salt of the Earth Recovery Project--Citizen Scholars and Activists Writing Across Communities.” Journal of Open Words: Access and English Studies. 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2020): 1-33. (9560 words). 1.12 https://wac.colostate.edu/openwords/
Article Link: https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/openwords/v12/kells.pdf
“Writing Across Communities and the Writing Center as Cultural Ecotone: Language Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Graduate Education.” Praxis. 14.1 (Winter 2016): 27-33.
“The Rhetorical Imagination of Writing Across Communities: Nomos and Literacy Education as a Gift-Giving Economy.” Journal of Reflections. Sustainability Studies Special Issue. 16.1 (Fall 2016): 149-163.
“A Prison Story: Public Rhetoric, Community Writing, and the Politics of Gender.” Journal of Reflections. 15.2 (Spring 2016): 9-35.
“Welcome to Babylon: Junior Writing Program Administrators and Writing Across Communities at the University of New Mexico.” Composition Forum. 25 (Spring 2012): http://compositionforum.com/issue/25/
“What’s Writing Got to Do with It? Citizen Wisdom, Civil Rights Activism, and 21st Century Community Literacy.” Eds. Shannon Carter and Deborah Mutnick. Community Literacy Journal Special Issue. 7.1 (Fall 2012): 89-110. **(Recipient of 2013 The Best of Rhetoric & Composition Independent Journals Outstanding Essay Award).
“Writing Across Communities: Diversity, Deliberation, and the Discursive Possibilities of WAC.” Reflections (Special Issue: Exploring Diversity in Community-Based Writing and Literacy Programs). 6.1 (Spring 2007): 87-108.
“Linguistic Contact Zones: An Examination of Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Attitudes” Written Communication. 19.1 (January 2002): 5-43.
“Dialogue, Dissonance, and Dialectic: Constructing a Textual History of Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life.” Ellen Glasgow Newsletter. 44 (Spring 2000): 1-5.
“Pedagogy and La Voz: Empowering Bicultural Writers.” Conference of College Teachers of English
Studies. 61 (September 1996). 27-33.
“The Sociolinguistic Contexts of Bicultural Writers.” 1996 Proceedings of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies.
Invited Encyclopedia Articles
“Writing Across Communities: Cultural Rhetorical Ecologies and Transcultural Citizenship in a Climate- Change COVID-19 Global Political Economy.” John Liontas, ed. The International Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Malden: Wiley Press. (Spring 2022).
“Writing Across Communities: Cultural Rhetorical Ecologies and Transcultural Citizenship.” (John Liontas, ed. The International Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Malden: Wiley Press. (Spring 2018).
“Latino/as in the United States: Transnationalism, Language, and Identity.” John Liontas, ed. The International Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Malden: Wiley Press. (Spring 2018).
“Héctor P. García.” American National Biography, Oxford University Press. (Fall 2015) www.anb.org
“Vicente Ximenes. American National Biography, Oxford University Press. (Fall 2015) www.anb.org
Peer Reviewed Chapters
“Rhino Crash, COVID-19, and a Shelter-in-Place Pedagogy for Teaching Science, Medical and Environmental Writing.” Technical Communication for Environmental Action. Sean Williams, ed. State University of New York Press. (Fall 2022).
“Topoi of Reflection, Resistance, and Resilience in Latina Leadership.” Co-Authored with Laura Gonzales. Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education Across Communities. Syracuse University Press. (November 2021).
“Latina Leadership and Lessons Learned from the Women of the Cold War Era Empire Zinc Mine Strike.” Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education Across Communities. Syracuse University Press. (November 2021).
“A Prison Story: Public Rhetoric, Community Writing and Politics of Gender.” Reprinted in Best of the Journals in Rhetoric & Composition 2017. Parlor Press. (Fall 2018): 308-34.
“Vicente Ximenes and LBJ's Great Society: The Rhetorical Imagination of the American GI Forum.”
Ed. Anthony Quiroz. Leaders of the Mexican American Generation. University of Colorado Press. (Fall 2015): 231-253.
“What’s Writing Got to Do with It? Citizen Wisdom, Civil Rights Activism, and 21st Century Community Literacy.” The Best of Rhetoric and Composition Independent Journals Outstanding Essays. Parlor Press. (Fall 2015): 27-55.
“Out of WAC: Democratizing Higher Education and Questions of Scarcity and Social Justice.” Texts of Consequence: Composing Social Activism for the Classroom and Community. Christopher Wilkey and Nicholas Mauriello, eds. Hampton Press. (Spring 2013): 174-225.
“Mapping Cultural Ecologies of Language and Literacy.” Cross-Language Relations in Composition.** Eds. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Matsuda. Southern Illinois University Press. (2010): 204-11. **(Recipient of CCCC 2011 Outstanding Book Award)
“Writing Across Communities: Diversity, Deliberation, and the Discursive Possibilities of WAC.” Reprinted in Writing and Community Engagement: A Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Thomas Dean, Barbara Roswell, and Adrian Wurr. Bedford St. Martin’s. (2010): 369-85.
Foreword. Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic Serving Institutions. Eds. Cristina Kirklighter, Diana Cárdenas, and Susan Wolff Murphy. State University of New York Press. (August 2007): vii-xiv.
“Questions of Race, Caste, and Citizenship: Héctor P. García, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Polemics of the Bracero Immigrant Labor Program.” for Who Belongs in America? Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration. Ed. Vanessa Beasley. Texas A&M University Press. (2006): 183-205.
“Tex Mex, Metalingual Discourse, and Teaching College Writing” for Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education. Ed. Shondel Nero. Lawrence Erlbaum. (2006): 185-201.
“Understanding the Rhetorical Value of Tejano Codeswitching” for Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education. Heinemann/Boynton-Cook. (2004): 24-39.
“Discourse and 'Cultural Bumping'.” Introduction. Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education. With Valerie Balester and Victor Villanueva. Heinemann/Boynton-Cook. (2004): 1-6.
“Histories, Ideologies, and Discourses of (Un)Identification: An Approach to Composition and Critical Pedagogy for Mexican American College Writers” for Included in English Studies: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Eds. Shelli B. Fowler and Victor Villanueva, NCTE. (2002): 43-51.
“Leveling the Linguistic Playing Field in the Composition Classroom.” Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines. Heinemann. (1999): 131-49.
“Voices from the Wild Horse Desert.” Introduction. With Valerie Balester. Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines. Heinemann. (1999): xiii-xxiii.
Jessica Enoch and Cristina Ramirez eds. Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1887-1922. Southern Illinois University Press, 2019.
Book Endorsements
Cruz Medina. Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay. University of Ohio Press. 2024.
Jessica Enoch and Cristina Ramirez eds. Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1887-1922. Southern Illinois University Press, 2019.
Invited Reviews & Essays
Review Essay of Frank P. Barajas Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021 in Journal of American History. (June 2022). (888 words).
“Shelter in Place: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.” Invited Essay. The Black Range Naturalist. 3.3 (July 2020). (1430 words).
Review Essay of Zevi Gutfreund Speaking American: Language Education and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles in Journal of American History. (June 2020). (668 words).
Review Essay of Stacey K. Sowards ¡Si, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers in Quarterly Journal of Speech. 106:1 (January 2020) (2480 words).
Review Essay of Maggie Rivas-Rodriquez Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights in Journal of American History. (September 2016): 519-520. (548 words).
“One Picture, 1,000 Words.” New Mexico Magazine. (July 2015): 66-7.
“Landscapes of Civic Literacy: The Rhetoric of Remembering” Invited Review Essay of: Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory in JAC 29.1-2 (Spring 2010): 451-64.
“Argument Revisited; Argument Redefined: Negotiating Meaning in the College Composition Classroom.” Invited Review Essay. Argument and Advocacy. 35.4 (Spring 1999): 192-95.
Poetry and Creative Work
“mí papí, me dice” in Mi Cultura Cura: Solastalgia, Querencia, and the EcoPoetics of Nature and Culture. For special issue “The U.S. Southwest as Land, Landscape, Place, and Environment” of Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts in the Greater Southwest (Fall 2023).
“La Lengua” in “A Question of Querencia: Alienation, Democracy, and Academia.” Intermezzo. Fall 2023.
“Soy de Querencia de los caballos” in “Language, Literacy, and Landscape: Cultivating Mi Cultura Cura Community Poetry as COVID-19 Testimonios for Laura Gray-Rosendale and Barbara Gleason, eds. Basic Writing in the 21st Century: Legacies, Learners, Landscapes and Future Possibilities (Peter Lang). Fall 2023.
“Manteca” in New Mexico Poetry Anthology. Eds. Levi Romero and Michelle Otero. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, Press. 2023.
“Mestizaje” in Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities. Eds. Laura Gonzales and Michelle Hall Kells. Syracuse University Press. (Spring 2022): 6.
“Grief” in “A Prison Story: Public Rhetoric, Community Writing, and the Politics of Gender.” Journal of Reflections, 15(2), 9-33.
WORK UNDER CONTRACT
Rhetoric of Embodiment: Mujerista Activism, Environmental Imagination, and the Mining of the Salt of the Earth. Advanced Contract. (Penn State University Press).
“Language, Literacy, and Landscape: Cultivating Mi Cultura Cura Community Poetry as COVID-19 Testimonios for Laura Gray-Rosendale and Barbara Gleason, eds. Basic Writing in the 21st Century: Legacies, Learners, Landscapes and Future Possibilities (Peter Lang).
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The Public Memory of the Salt of the Earth.” New Mexico Historical Review. Special Issue. Editor Durwood Ball. Spring 2025.
“A Question of Querencia: Alienation, Democracy, and Academia,” for Ruben Casas and Shiben Banerji, eds. Special Issue Intermezzo.
Looking to the Mountain: Sacred Lands, Healing Cultures Gila Centennial Anniversary Poetry & Photography Anthology (for Museum of New Mexico Press).
The San Joaquin River Club (Eco-Poetry).
Ginny: An Archeology of Women, Writing, and Wilderness. (EcoPoetic Memoir).
GUEST SCHOLAR INVITATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Key Note Address. 2023 Conference Historical Society of New Mexico. Silver City, NM. March 2023. “The Public Memory of the Salt of the Earth.”
Invited Speaker for Western New Mexico University. “Nueva Mexicana/o Leadership Across Communities: Cultivating Pathways to the Professorate.” (May 2023)
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Invited Speaker with Ralph Cintron and Donnie Sackey. “Poieses of the Future: The Transdisciplinarity of Climate Change, Migration, and Land-Based Ethics.” 2023 RSA Summer Institute. Penn State.
Presentation: “Land Lines: Climate Change(s), Migrations, Ancestral Homelands, and the Bioethics of the Gila Aldo Leopold Wilderness.”
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Invited Speaker. 72nd Anniversary Commemoration of the Women of the Empire Zinc Mine Strike, Local 890. Hanover, New Mexico. (May 2022).
Aaron Rogers. “New Plaque Commemorates Empire Zinc Mine Strike.” Silver City Daily Press. 16 May 2022.
Invited Speaker with Levi Romero. “Mi Cultura Cura: Testimonios de la Nueva Mexico. UNM Latin American and Iberian Studies Institute. (November 2021).
Invited Speaker. “The Rhetoric of Friendship: The American GI Forum and the Fellowship of Héctor P. García and Vicente Ximenes.” Dr. Héctor P. García Commemorative Colloquium. Center for Mexican American Research at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. (September 2019).
Invited Speaker. “The Rhetorical Imagination of Vicente Ximenes: What the Cold War Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us in a Post-Obama Political Climate.” Guadalupe Theatre. San Antonio, TX. (September 2019).
Invited Speaker. “Going Home: The Story of Sam Fore and Vicente Ximenes.” Sam Fore Jr. Wilson County Public Library. Floresville, TX. (September 2019).
Invited Speaker. Center for Regional Studies. La Canoa Legacy Lecture. “Embodied Rhetoric and the Women of Local 890: The Cold War Mexican American Labor Rights Movement, Empire Zinc Strike, and Mining The Salt of the Earth.” National Hispanic Cultural Center. Albuquerque. (October 2018).
Invited Speaker. Featured Panel “Salt of the Earth and Beyond: Community Story Telling and Cultural Heritage.” New Mexico Museum Association Conference. Taos. (October 2018).
Invited Speaker. National Communication Association Conference. Featured Panel. “Querencia and Cold War Civil Rights Rhetoric: The Role of New Mexico Latina Activists in the Local 890 Empire Zinc Mine Strike, 1950-1952.” Salt Lake City. (November 2018).
Invited Speaker. Multilingual UX Symposium. University of Texas, El Paso. (November 2017).
Invited Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. California State University, Northridge. (March 2018).
Invited Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. 2017 NCTE Conference. St. Louis. (November 2017).
Invited Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. 2016 NCTE Conference. Atlanta. (November 2016).
Invited Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. University of Texas, San Antonio. (February 2016).
Invited Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. 2015 NCTE Conference. Minneapolis. (November 2015).
Invited Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. University of California, Berkeley. (February 2015).
“Citizen Scholars and the Cultural Rhetorical Ecology of Writing Across Communities.” 2015 Conference on Community Writing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Featured Speaker Workshop. (October 2015).
“Cultural Ecologies of Writing and Learning.” Westfield State University, Massachusetts.
Keynote Address and Featured Speaker Workshop. (January 2014).
“The Rhetorical Imagination of Writing Across Communities: Nomos and Literacy Education as a Gift-Giving Economy.” Featured Speaker 2012 Watson Conference. University of Louisville. (October 2012).
“What’s Writing Got to Do with It? Citizen Wisdom, Civil Rights Activism, and 21st Century Civic Literacy.” Keynote Address. Albuquerque Cultural Conference Cultural Survival in Difficult Times. (August 2011).
“The Chamizal Effect: Tropes of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Civic Literacy, and the 21st Century Rhetorical Imagination.” Keynote Address, University of Texas at El Paso, Frontera Retórica 2011 Symposium. (April 2011).
“Writing Democracy: What the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About 21st Century Civic Literacy.” Keynote Address. Texas A&M University-Commerce and Texas Federation of Rhetoric Symposium. (March 2011).
“Writing Across Communities: Imaginary Fiction or Cautionary Tale?” Keynote Address. Auburn University. (November 2010).
“That’s So WAC: ‘Speaking Life as a Second Language.’” Plenary Address. CCCC/Research Network Forum. Louisville, KY. (March 2010).
“Acorn Stories: From Graduate School to Tenure.” Texas A&M University. Department of English Colloquium. College Station, TX. (October 2008).
CCCC Statement on Diversity: “Diversity, Metaphorical Constructions, and Enacting Deliberative Democracy in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service.” (24 July 2008)
“Imagining Community Literacy.” Invited Scholar Presentation. Community Literacy Summit. Temple University, Program Chairs: Eli Goldblatt and Steve Parks. Philadelphia, PA. (April 2008).
“Going National: Vicente Ximenes and the Rhetorical Imagination of the American GI Forum.” Featured Speaker. American GI Forum 60th Anniversary Conference, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. (March 2008).
“Dr. Héctor P. García: Democracy as a Way of Knowing.” Keynote Address. Inauguration Ceremony for Center for Mexican American Research, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. (October 2006).
“Vicente Ximenes and President Lyndon B. Johnson: The El Paso Conference, Chicano Resistance, and the Rhetorics of Mexican American Civil Rights.” 2006 Texas State Historical Association Panel: Mexican American Civil Rights, 1940s-1960s. Austin, TX. (March 2006).
“Academic Discourse Acquisition and Ethnolinguistic Minority College Students: The Role of Language Attitudes in Teaching Composition.” 2003 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, NCTE College Section Panel, San Diego, CA. (December 2003).
“Dr. Héctor P. García and the Construction of a Post-World War II Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric.” Texas State Historical Association Conference. El Paso, Texas. (March 2003).
“Héctor P. García, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Polemics of the Bracero Immigrant Labor Program: Questions of Race, Caste, and Citizenship.” Plenary Address for Program in Presidential Rhetoric, George Bush School of Government and Public Service Conference on “The White House and Immigration Policy.” College Station, TX. (March 2001).
“Understanding the Rhetorical Value of Tejano Codeswitching” for Symposium on the Study of Writing and Teaching Writing, “Writing and Dialects of English” Program Chair: Peter Elbow. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. (July 2001).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Rhetoric and Climate Justice in the Age of Catastrophe.” Featured Panel Presentation. 2024 Rhetoric Society of America. Denver. (May 2024)
“New Directions in Chicana and Chicana Graduate Studies.” Panel Presentation with Matthew Goodwin, Stephanie Sanchez, Frank Aviles, and Marc Anaya. 2024 National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. San Francisco. (April 2024)
“Mujerista Spiritual Activism: La Solidaridad y La Caridad among the Women of the Empire Zinc Mine Strike, 1951-1952.” 2023 National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Panel Presentation with Laura Belmonte and Elvira Carrizal-Dukes. Denver. (April 2023).
“Mi Cultura Cura/Healing Through Culture: COVID-19 and Climate-Change Community Narratives.” 2022 Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, MD. (May 2022).
“In the Shadows of Democracy: Examining Alienation, Authoritarianism, and Resistance-Then and Now.” Panel Presentation with Ruben Casas, Frida Sanchez, Ralph Cintron, Morris Young, and Jacqueline Jones Royster. 2022 Rhetoric Society of America. Baltimore, MD. (May 2022).
“The Epistemic Rhetoric of the Salt of the Earth Recovery Project: Engaging Citizen Wisdom and Recovering the Public Archive” 2020 Rhetoric Society of America. Portland, OR. (May 2020). **COVID 19 Conference Cancelation.
“Labor Activism, Gender Identity, and Historical Representation of the Women of “Salt of the Earth” in Cold War New Mexico.” 2020 New Mexico History Conference. Silver City, NM. (April 2020). **COVID 19 Conference Cancelation.
“Querencia: Rhetorics of Place and the Power of Radical Intimacy.” 2018 Rhetoric Society of American. Minneapolis. (May 2018).
“Women and the Mining of Salt of the Earth: Public Rhetoric and the Politics of Gender, 1954-2014.” 2018 Rhetoric Society of American. Minneapolis. (May 2018).
“An ‘Open Space for Democracy’: Environmental Rhetoric in the Southwest.” 2016 Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA. (May 2016).
“Disturbance Ecologies and Writing Across Communities: Cultivating Imagination and Rhetorical Resilience.” 2016 International Writing Across Curriculum Conference. Panel Session with Tiffany Rousculp. Ann Arbor, MI. (June 2016).
“Citizen Scholars across the Curriculum: The Ecologies of Language and Belonging.” 2015 National Conference of Teachers of English. Minneapolis, MN. (November 2015).
“On the Borders of the Americas: Chicano Ecology, Topoi of Environmental Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Citizenship.” 2014 Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX. (May 2014).
“Navigating the ‘Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing:’ Invisible Landscapes, Cultural Contours, and the Eight Habits of Mind.” 2012 Writing Program Administration Conference, Albuquerque, NM. (July 2012).
“The Dark Ecology of Writing Across Communities: Reactive Rhetorics and Trickster Tropes.” National Consortium of Writing Across Communities Summit. Santa Fe, NM. (July 2012).
“The ‘Chamizal Effect:’ Solastalgia and the Rhetoric of Place on the US/Mexico Border.” 2012 Rhetoric Society of America, Panel Session with M. Jimmie Killingsworth. Philadelphia, PA. (May 2012).
“Welcome to Babylon: The New WPA & Transgressing the Intersections of Composition and Cultural Studies.” 2011 CCCC Atlanta, GA. (April 2011).
“The Public Rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: Phronesis and Mexican American Civil Rights Activism” Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. (May 2010).
“Discursive Democracy, Civic Literacy, and the Unfinished Work of the Civil Rights Movement.” 2009 CCCC. Session Chair: Keith Gilyard. San Francisco, CA. (March 2009).
“Vicente Ximenes and LBJ's Great Society: The Rhetoric of Mexican American Civil Rights Reform” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA. (May 2008). Session Chair: David Zarefsky.
“Revisioning WAC: Cultural Diversity, Agency, and Access.” 2007 CCCC, Session Chair: Susan McLeod, New York, NY. (March 2007).
“Writing Across Communities: Diversity, Deliberation, and the Discursive Possibilities of WAC.” 2006 CCCC, Session Chair: Juan Guerra, Chicago, IL. (March 2006).
“Out of WAC: Democratizing Higher Education and Questions of Scarcity and Social Justice.” International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Clemson University. (May 2006).
“Cultural Ecology and the Role of WAC in the Global University.” 2005 CCCC, San Francisco, CA. (March 2005).
“What's Culture Got to Do With It?: A Cultural Ecology Approach to Teaching Technical Writing.” 2004 CCCC, San Antonio, TX. (March 2004).
“The Question of Whiteness: The Texas Caucasian Race Resolution and the Emergence of a Post-World War II Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric.” 2004 Rhetoric Society of America. Austin, TX. (May 2004).
“Critical Communicative Action, EcoComposition, and Professional Writing: Approaches to Teaching Intercultural Communication Principles in the Technical Writing Classroom.” 2003 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, San Diego, CA. (December 2003).
“Ethnolinguistic Identity and the Textual Construction of Ethos by Mexican American College Writers.” Special Session: A Critical Examination of Literacy for Hispano/Latino/Chicano Students. Linguistic Association of the Southwest Conference, Pan American University of Texas. (October 2003).
“In the Shadow of Black Tuesday: Action Plans for Effective Intercultural Communication.” 2003 Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Session with Jimmie Killingsworth. New York, NY. (March 2003).
“Héctor P. García, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 'Imagined Fraternity': Rhetorics of Race, Citizenship, and Mexican American Civil Rights.” Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, NV. (May 2002).
“Vision-Making: Silencio, Solidaridad y Acts of Contrition.” 2001 CCCC Session with C. Jan Swearingen and Jimmie Killingsworth, Denver, CO. (March 2001).
“Coming to Voice in the Wild Horse Desert.” 2000 CCCC Session with Winifred Horner. Minneapolis, MN. (April 2000).
“‘A Throne in de Seat of His Pants’: Reflections of the Ciceronian Orator in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and Literature.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. (October 2000).
“Coming to Voice in the Wild Horse Desert.” 2000 CCCC Session with Winifred Horner. Minneapolis, MN. (April 2000).
“Language Attitudes as Ideological Mirrors: The Reproduction of the Dominant Discourse among Mexican American Bilingual Writers.” 1999 CCCC Session with Victor Villanueva Jr., Valerie Balester, Ralph Cintron, and Juan Guerra. Atlanta, GA. (March 1999).
“Deconstructing Linguistic Ambivalence: Meta-Linguistic Discourse of Mexican American College Writers.” 1999 CCCC/Research Network Forum. Atlanta, GA. (March 1999).
“Nominalization as Metalingual Practice.” Linguistics Association of the Southwest (LASSO).
San Antonio, TX. (October 1999).
“Dialogue, Dissonance, and Dialectic: Constructing a Textual History of Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life.” Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, IL. (December 1998).
“Attending to Language: Ethnocentrism, Linguistic Bias, and Language Attitudes in the College Writing Classroom.” 1998 CCCC Session with Akua Duku Anokye. Chicago, IL. (April 1998).
“Leveling the Linguistic Playing Field in First Year Composition.” 1998 Conference of College Composition and Communication/Research Network Forum CCCC/RNF. Chicago, IL. (April 1998).
“Juxtaposed: Women, Writing, and Work.” 1998 South Central Women Studies Association Conference. Houston, TX. (March 1998).
“Tex Mex and the College Writer: How Are We Shaping Language Attitudes in the Writing Classroom?” 1997 CCCC/RNF. Phoenix, AZ. (March 1997).
“Modeling the Rhetorical Stance in the Writing Classroom.” 1996 Conference of Texas Council of Teachers of English. Texas A&M University-Kingsville, TX. (October 1996).
“The Sociolinguistic Contexts of Basic Writers.” 1995 Conference of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA). Houston, TX. (October 1995).
“A Rhetorical Analysis of Poetry: The Interweaving Tropes of La Lavandera/The Laundry Woman.” Las Hijas del Quinto Sol: Studies in Latina Identity Conference. St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX. (July 1995).
“Basic Writing: A Gateway to College for Mexican Americans of South Texas.” 1994 Conference of South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. (November 1994).
“Historical Development of Women of Latin America Since Independence” adopted as supplementary text for History of Latin America, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, TX. (May 1992).
NCTE FACULTY MENTOR CULTIVATING NEW VOICES AMONG SCHOLARS OF COLOR
TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Portfolio of Michelle Hall Kells at:
NCTE FACULTY MENTOR CULTIVATING NEW VOICES AMONG SCHOLARS OF COLOR
Faculty Advisor for Laura Gonzales, Michigan State University. August 2016 to February 2018.
Placement: Assistant Professor. University of Florida, Fall 2019 to present.
Faculty Advisor for Lorena Gutierrez, Michigan State University, August 2014 to February 2016.
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside, Fall 2017 to present.
Faculty Advisor for Abygail Gutierrez. “Being “American”: How Filipinos Constructed and Were Constructed by America.” (Spring 2021-Fall 2021).
HONORS & FELLOWSHIP ADVISOR
Ronald E. McNair Undergraduate Research Scholar Advisor
Faculty Advisor for Abygail Gutierrez. “Being “American”: How Filipinos Constructed and Were Constructed by America.” (Spring 2021-Fall 2021).
Faculty Advisor for Maria Elwan. “A Village Approach to Community and Academically Sponsored Literacy Programs.” (IRB Approved/Grant Supported Research Project) (2012 to 2013).
El Centro de la Raza, Summa Academia
Faculty Advisor for Xóchitl L. Santillán Reyna, MA Chicana and Chicano Studies (September 2023 to May 2024).
Faculty Advisor for Angelique Tapia, MA Rhetoric & Writing Program. (September 2019 to May 2020).
Summa Cum Laude. MA Program Placement: UNM RW MA Program (Fall 2022)
Honors Thesis
Faculty Advisor for Jennifer Evans ENGL 497 Senior Honors Thesis. (Fall 2021 to Spring 2022). “Writing Across Spheres: Mapping the Rhetorical Imagination in Woman’s Environmental Literature.”
Summa Cum Laude. MA Program Placement: UNM RW MA Program (Fall 2022)
Graduate Program Placement: University of Washington MA
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PhD Program (Fall 2022)
Faculty Advisor for Abygail Gutierrez ENGL 497 Senior Honors Thesis. (Fall 2020 to Spring 2021).
“Archeology of the Coconut as a Trope in Pacific Island Culture and Myth.” Magna Cum Laude.
Graduate Program Placement: University of Washington MA
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PhD Program (Fall 2022)
Lobo Gardens Project.
Internship
Faculty Advisor for Isabel Josefina Strawn ENGL 499 Internship in Professional Writing (Fall 2019).
Lobo Gardens Project.
MA Program Placement: UNM RW MA Program (Fall 2022)
Outstanding MA Portfolio Award
Jessica Bowen. MA Portfolio Director. “Identity, Place, and Power in Public Discourse.” (December 2018 to Spring 2020).
Faculty Advisor for Kelli Lycke-Martin. “Textuality of Memory Sites: Recovering Cold War Mexican American Labor Rhetoric.” (December 2017 to May 2019).
Center for Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship Advisor.
Faculty Advisor for Zakery Muñoz. “Becoming American: Octaviano A. Larrazolo’s Rhetoric, An Archival Recovery of Hispanic Heritage.” (August 2019 to May 2020). Vicente Ximenes Scholarship Public Rhetoric and Community Literacy Recipient.
Faculty Advisor for Steven Romero. “Deliberative Rhetorics Across Borders and Communities.” (August 2018 to May 2019). Vicente Ximenes Scholarship Public Rhetoric and Community Literacy Recipient.
Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Foundation Fellowship Advisor.
Faculty Advisor for Dan Cryer. Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship Dissertation Award: “Inventing the Ecological Citizen: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Rhetorics.” (November 2013 to November 2014).
Jasmine Poblano. MA Portfolio Director. “Justice for Tia: An Exploration of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Through Kinship Ties.” (Fall 2022-Spring 2024). PhD Program Placement. UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (Fall 2024).
MA PORTFOLIO DIRECTOR
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies:
Jasmine Poblano. MA Portfolio Director. “Justice for Tia: An Exploration of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Through Kinship Ties.” (Fall 2022-Spring 2024). PhD Program Placement. UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (Fall 2024).
Diego Lucero. MA Portfolio Director. "Bridging Narratives: My Life's Journey from South Valley to Chicano Studies" (Fall 2022-Spring 2024). Professional Placement. City of Albuquerque Deputy Director of Art and Culture (May 2024). https://youtu.be/0yCq4imvw0A?si=d6k798V5enVcS8UJ
Marc Anaya. MA Portfolio Director. “The Future of Chicana/o Studies: Pathways to the Professorate and Public Leadership.” (Fall 2022-Spring 2023). PhD Program Placement. UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (Fall 2023).
Department of English: Rhetoric and Writing:
Jonathan Sisneros. MA Portfolio Director. "Ecologies of Writing: Academic, Public, and Personal." (Fall 2021-Spring 2022). Vicente Ximenes Scholarship Public Rhetoric and Community Literacy Recipient.
Moya McGuill. MA Portfolio Director. “Memory, Space, and Place in Historical Discourse.” (Fall 2020-Spring 2021).
Jessica Bowen. MA Portfolio Director. “Identity, Place, and Power in Public Discourse.” (Spring 2020).
Kelli Lycke-Martin. MA Portfolio Director. “Textuality of Memory Sites: Recovering Cold War Mexican American Labor Rhetoric.” (Spring 2019). PhD. Program Placement. University of Arizona. (Fall 2020).
Tenure-Line Assistant Professor Placement, UNM-Valencia. (Fall 2023).
Steven Romero. MA Portfolio Director. “Community, Resistance, and Visibility: Rhetorics of Narrative and Self-Representation.” (Spring 2020).
PhD Program Placement: UNM Chicana & Chicano Studies. (Fall 2022).
Tenure-Line Assistant Professor Placement, UNM-Valencia. (Fall 2023).
Zakery Muñoz. MA Portfolio Director. “The Rhetoric of New Mexican Heritage and History: Constitutional New Mexico, Citizenship, and the Archives.” (Spring 2020).
Ph.D. Program Placement. Syracuse University. (Fall 2020).
Jessica Delaney. MA Portfolio Director. “The Work of Words: Meaning Construction as a Path to Empathy and Action.” (Spring 2015).
Sandra Alden. MA Portfolio Director. “Stylistic Moves: Constructing Ethos and Audience in Political Rhetoric” (Spring 2015).
Richard Sylvestre. MA Portfolio Director. “Intersectionality of Theory and Queer Space: Critical Pedagogy of the Liminal.” (Spring 2014).
Soha Turfler. MA Portfolio Director. “Life Words: Language, Power, and Paradox.” (Spring 2014)—MA Distinction.
Matthew Tougas. MA Portfolio Director. “The WAC—tivist’s Handbook: Writing for Social Change.” (Spring 2014).
Rachel Munger. MA Portfolio Director. “Stories We Tell Ourselves.” (Spring 2014)—MA Distinction.
Heather García. MA Portfolio Director. “Critical Education Policy Discourse Analysis and ESEA Reform in the Wake of NCLB” (Spring 2014).
Deb Paczynski. MA Portfolio Director. “Visual Rhetoric and Environmental Imagination.” (Spring 2013)—MA Distinction.
Rachel Gearhart. MA Portfolio Director. “Into the Mind of the Oppressor: The Rhetoric of Japanese American Internment.” (Spring 2012).
Erin Penner Gallegos. MA Portfolio Director. “Mapping the Intersections: Language, Place, and Identity.” (Spring 2011)—MA Distinction.
PHD DISSERTATION DIRECTOR
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies:
Steven Romero. Comprehensive Exams (Fall 2025);
Marc Anaya. Comprehensive Exams (Spring 2025).
Department of English: Rhetoric and Writing:
Brian Hendrickson. Comprehensive Exams (Spring 2013); Dissertation Prospectus: “Toward a Rhetorical Paideia of Writing In, Across, and Beyond the Disciplines: Genre Tracing of Citizen-Scholarship in the College of Engineering.” (Spring 2016).
Christine García. “’Siete Lenguas’: A Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric.” (Fall 2015). Vicente Ximenes Scholarship Public Rhetoric and Community Literacy Recipient. Assistant Professor. Eastern Connecticut State University.
Genevieve García de Mueller. “Shifting Dreams: Intersections of the Rhetorical Imagination of U.S. Immigration Policy and the Writing Practices of Dreamers.” (Fall 2018). Vicente Ximenes Scholarship Public Rhetoric and Community Literacy Recipient. Assistant Professor. Syracuse University.
Mellisa Huffman. “Getting on the Same Page: The Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Rhetoric within Collaborative Writing Situations.” (Spring 2015). Assistant Professor. Angelo State University.
Dan Cryer. “A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold.” (Fall 2014). Assistant Professor Roosevelt College (Chicago).
Lyndsey Ives. “Case Not Closed: Whiteness, Otherness, Action, and Reflection in the Genres of Freedom Summer.” (Spring 2014). Assistant Professor. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Tom Pierce. “Transitional College Writers and the Conversation on Error and Standardization Across the Curriculum.” (Spring 2013). Dean. Adult Education. Morton College (Chicago).
Greg Evans Haley. “Applied Rhetorics of the Self, the Citizen, and the Writer: Hermeneutics and Composition in Dewey, Arendt, and Ricoeur.” (Spring 2013). Lecturer. Oregon State University.
Michaelann Nelson. “Voices of Glen Canyon: The Influence of Place on Imagination and Activism” (Spring 2009). Assistant Professor. Utah State University Eastern.
CURRICULUM (COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT)
University of New Mexico (2004-present)
Practicum in Teaching and Research CCS 620 (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Borderland Environmentalisms CCS 593/NATV 595 (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Research Methods in Chicana and Chicano Studies CCS 552 (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Practicum in Teaching and Research CCS 620 (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Women & Environmental Writing ENGL 640
Nature Writing Across Culture ENGL 440/540 CCS 493/593 (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Chicano Ecology & the Rhetoric of Environmental Justice ENGL 440/540 (Latin American Studies)
Women & Environmental Writing ENGL 640
Food, Culture, & Environmental Rhetoric ENGL 440 (Sustainability Studies)
Writing with Tropes: Rhetoric of Wine ENGL 420/520
Biography & Memoir ENGL 416/516
Food, Culture, & Environmental Rhetoric ENGL 440 (Sustainability Studies)
Major Texts in Rhetoric ENGL 442
Writing About Food & Culture ENGL 320
Writing About Wine & Culture ENGL 320
Major Texts in Rhetoric ENGL 442
Major Texts in Rhetoric ENGL 542
Science, Medical, & Environmental Rhetoric ENGL 413
Contemporary Rhetoric ENGL 543
Major Texts in Rhetoric ENGL 542
Environmental Rhetoric & Writing ENGL 640 Seminar
Ideologies of Literacy ENGL 640 Seminar
Sophistic Rhetoric & the Pragmatic Attitude ENGL 640 Seminar
Environmental Rhetoric & Writing ENGL 640 Seminar
Scholarly Writing and Publishing (Rhetoric & Composition) ENGL 540
Writing Programs Administration ENGL 640 Seminar
Theories of Discourse: Approaches to Rhetorical and Literary Studies ENGL 640 Seminar
Scholarly Writing and Publishing (Rhetoric & Composition) ENGL 540
Tutoring College Writing Practicum ENGL 420
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Writing & Cultural Studies ENGL 440/540
Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Writing ENGL 420/520
Tutoring College Writing Practicum ENGL 420
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$520
Teaching Composition Practicum ENGL 537
At the Intersections of Rhetorical Theory & Discourse Studies ENGL 540
20th Century Civil Rights Rhetoric ENGL 440/540
Teaching Composition Practicum ENGL 537
Language & Diversity ENGL 440
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$540
Advanced Expository Writing: Writing Across Academic & Public Cultures ENGL 320
Advanced Expository Writing: Rhetoric of Place & Belonging ENGL 320
Language & Diversity ENGL 440
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$540
Expository Writing ENGL 101 (WAC-Enhanced)
Rhetoric & Civic Discourse ENGL 540
Rhetorics of Place and Belonging in 20th Century America ENGL 411 Honors Seminar
Expository Writing ENGL 101 (WAC-Enhanced)
Introduction to Linguistics ENGL
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LING 209
Texas A&M University (1997-2004)
Ethnolinguistic Diversity & Teaching Composition ENGL/LING 485
Introduction to Linguistics ENGL
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LING 209
Advanced Composition ENGL 241
Composition and Rhetoric ENGL 104 (Computer-Assisted Course)
Scientific and Technical Writing ENGL 210
Advanced Composition ENGL 241
Literacies & Learning Communities LBAR 289
(Advanced) Technical Writing ENGL 301
Technical Editing & Writing ENGL 320 (Computer-Assisted Course)
Literacies & Learning Communities LBAR 289
Rhetoric and Composition ENG 1301 (Computer-Assisted Course)
Texas A&M University-Kingsville (1993-1997)
Developmental Writing WRT 099
Rhetoric and Composition ENG 1301 (Computer-Assisted Course)
Sophomore Literature ENG 2362: Readings in Short Story and Drama
Rhetoric and Composition ENG 1302 (Computer-Assisted Course)
Sophomore Literature ENG 2342: Readings in Poetry and Novel
Sophomore Literature ENG 2362: Readings in Short Story and Drama
Composition
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Literacy Studies (Ethnolinguistic Diversity & Community Literacies)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION (DOCTORAL EXAMS)
Rhetoric (Environmental & Civil Rights Rhetorics)
Composition
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Literacy Studies (Ethnolinguistic Diversity & Community Literacies)
Critical Theory (Cultural Rhetorical Studies)
Sociolinguistics (Cultural Diversity & Language Attitudes)
RSA Affiliate National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing
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Professional Reviews & Profiles
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Southwest Hispanic Research Institute
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NCTE Cultivating New Voice Among Scholars of Color Affiliated Faculty
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UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute
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Coordinator, Translingual Literacy Studies. Department of English, University of New Mexico, November 2020 to 2022.
External Review & Evaluator
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of Latino/a Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. May 2024.
External Reviewer. The Ohio State University Press. October 2023.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of Writing, Literature, and Film. Oregon State University. August 2023.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion to Full Professor. Department of Writing and Language Studies. University of Texas at Rio Grande. August 2023.
External Reviewer. Penn State Press Democracy and Democratic Deliberation Series. March 2022.
External Reviewer. Preliminary Examination Committee Reader. University of Illinois, Chicago. Department of English. January to December 2022.
External Reviewer: Tenure and Promotion. Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies. University of Utah. August 2021.
External Reviewer. NCTE 2021 Conference Proposal Reviewer. February 2021.
External Reviewer. Routledge. Series on Translingual Writing. October 2019.
External Reviewer. Southern Illinois University Press. Invited Endorsement for Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1887-1922. Jessica Enoch and Cristina D. Ramírez, eds. September 2019.
External Editorial Reviewer. Special Collection WAC Clearinghouse Perspectives. Diverse Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum. September 2019.
External Editorial Reviewer. University of Arizona Press. Mexican American Studies Series. August 2017.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of English. Pacific Lutheran University. Oregon. August 2019.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of Writing and Language Studies. University of Texas at Rio Grande. August 2018.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. College of Education. Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies. University of New Mexico. August 2017.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of English. University of Oklahoma. August 2017.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of English. University of Arizona. August 2016.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of English. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. August 2011.
External Reviewer. Tenure and Promotion. Department of English. University of Texas at El Paso. August 2011.
External Reviewer. Albuquerque Community Foundation Grant Committee. Environmental and Historic Conservation Non Profit Community Projects. May 2017.
External Editorial Reviewer. Congress and Presidency: Journal of Capital Studies Series. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, November 2016.
External Reviewer. ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies)/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. December 2016.
External Editorial Reviewer. College English. January 2015.
External Reviewer. ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies)/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. December 2015.
External Reviewer. ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies)/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. December 2014.
Evaluator. Sul Ross State University (SACS) Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Committee, Alpine, TX. March 2008.
External Editorial Reviewer. Richard Ohmann Essay Award Committee for College English. September 2006.
External Editorial Reviewer for Journal of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. July 2005.
Subject Area Expert & Project Consultant
Consultant Title V Grant Con Ganas for Western New Mexico University. May 2023.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). KUNM Public Radio. Espejos Atzlan. Interview with host Cristina Baccin and Rachel Jackson (University of Oklahoma). 7 October 2019.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). San Antonio Express News. Elaine Ayala. “Ximenes’ Work Offers Lessons in History, Strategy.” 14 September 2019. A2.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). National Public Radio LatinoUSA. Sayre Quevado. “And They Will Inherit It.” October 2018. (Documentary Release 1 May 2019).
Project Chair. Local 890 “Salt of the Earth” Recovery Project. Community Activism Archive and Historic Preservation Project. Bayard, New Mexico. July 2017 to present.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). Grant County Beat. Sandra Michaud. “Salt of the Earth Recovery Project.” http://www.grantcountybeat.com/news/news-articles/45959-salt-of-the-earth-recovery-project; Silver City Sun News
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). “Rhetorical Value of Tejano Codeswitching.” Video Conference. Barry University, Miami. September 2016.
Author/Advisor (Subject Area Expert). Dr. Héctor P. García (Memorial) Honoree. Extra Mile (Citizen Recognition) Monument, Points of Light Foundation, Washington, DC April 2014.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). La Voz. Ernest Gurulé. “Civil Rights Act Turns 50.” 24 April 2014.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). Juan C. Guerra. Language, Culture, Identity, and Citizenship in College Classrooms and Communities. (Urbana: NCTE-Routledge.) April 2013.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). Albuquerque Journal. Deborah Baker. “JFK: The Tragedy Still Resonates.” 17 November 2013. A1-A8.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). Albuquerque Journal. Nicole Perez. “Vicente Ximenes, Rights Activist, Dies at 94.” 2 March 2014. B1-B6.
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). Voices. Radio Program KRKE Interview with Hakim Belamy (New Mexico State Office of African American Affairs). (October 2008).
Interview Source (Subject Area Expert). Voices. Radio Program KRKE Interview with Sonia Rankin (UNM Law School) (October 2007).
Conference Program Chair & Site Coordinator
Program Chair. 2024. “Ancestral Gila Homelands: Indigenous Kinship Ties and Land Ethics—2,000 Years, Before and Beyond.” Featured Speakers: Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Jeffery Shepherd. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Albuquerque. (April 2024).
Panel Chair. (NCERW Panel Coordinator). 2024 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. “EcoRhetorics, Intersectional Environmental Justice, and Land Ethics.” Denver. May 2024.
Session Chair. 2023 Conference Historical Society of New Mexico. Panel: “Through the Lens: Perspectives on Historical Photographs” with Terry Humble, Lorenzo Flores, and Javier Marrufo. Silver City, New Mexico (April 2023).
Panel Chair. (NCERW Panel Coordinator). 2022 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. “Environmental Rhetoric as Resistance & Resilience.” Baltimore. May 2022.
Panel Chair (NCERW Panel Coordinator). 2020 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. “Rhetorics of Presence: Environmental Resistance & Resilience.” Portland. May 2020.**Canceled for COVID-19.
Panel Chair (NCERW Panel Coordinator). 2020 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. “Narratives of Extraction: Labor, Mining, and Displacement in Cold War Communities of the Southwest.” Portland. May 2020.**Canceled for COVID-19.
Program Chair. 2018 NCERW Southwest Regional Chapter Summit. University of New Mexico. October 2018.
Program Chair (Charter Coordinator). RSA Affiliate National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing (NCERW) Panel. May 2018.
Panel Chair. 2018 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. “Environmental Rhetoric and the Southwest: Inventions and Reconstructions.” Minneapolis. May 2018.
Conference Site Coordinator. 2017 NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Institute. University of New Mexico. February 2017.
Program Chair. 2017 National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing (NCERW) Writers Workshop. Taos. July 2017.
Program Chair. 2016 NCERW Southwest Regional Chapter Summit. University of New Mexico. October 2016.
Panel Chair. 2016 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. Session “Environmental Rhetoric, Latinidad, and the Southwest: Place and the Language of Belonging.” Atlanta. May 2016.
Program Chair. Inaugural Meeting of National Consortium of Writing Across Communities. 2011 CCCC. Atlanta. April 2011.
Program Chair. 2012 Summit of National Consortium of Writing Across Communities. Santa Fe. July 2012.
Committee Member. Site Steering Committee with Charles Paine. 2012 National Council of Writing Program Administration Conference. University of New Mexico. July 2012.
Session Chair. Conference of College Composition and Communication Panel. “Diversity, Social Justice, and the New WPA: Responsible Relations in Knowledge-Making, Community Activism, and Writing Program Administration.” Atlanta. April 2011.
Session Chair. Conference of College Composition and Communication Panel. “Defining and Addressing Expectations for L2 Writers Across the Disciplines.” Atlanta. April 2011.
CCCC 2005 Workshop Invited Speaker. “CCCC Language Diversity in the Composition Classroom.” Workshop Facilitator with Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva. San Francisco. March 2005.
Program Chair. 2004 “Writing with Authority.” Academic and Professional Integrity Seminar. Texas A&M University. Featured Speaker: Rebecca Moore Howard. College Station. April 2004.
Session Chair. 2002 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. “Contextual Agency and Civic Discourse: Studies in Peace, Class, and Cynicism.” Las Vegas. May 2002.
Discussion Leader with Juan Guerra. CCCC/Research Network Forum. “The Rhetoric of Marginalized Cultures.” Denver. March 2001.
Program Chair. 2000 Literacy Symposium: Literacies and Literary Representations: Posing Questions, Framing Conversations about Language and Hispanic Identities. Texas A&M University. Featured Speakers: Juan Guerra, Jaime Mejía, and David Montejano. October 2000.
Session Moderator. Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and Literature, Talk and Story: Multicultural Reclamations of Identity. College Station. October 2000.
Program Chair. 1999 Literacy Symposium: Rewriting Literacies: Changing Communities, Shifting Discourses. Texas A&M University. Featured Speakers: Ira Shor, Andrea Lunsford, C. Jan Swearingen, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, and Akua Duku Anokye. College Station. October 1999.
Session Chair. Conference of College Composition and Communication Panel: Checking Our Cultural Baggage: Language Attitudes in the Writing Classroom. Chicago. March 1998.
Featured Speaker Chair. Conference of College Composition and Communication: Featured Session: A Tale of Many Enthymemes. Chicago. March 1998.
Session Chair. Conference of South Central Modern Language Association Session: Closing the Borders to Academe: Are Basic Writing Programs Under Siege? San Antonio. October 1996.
Session Chair. Conference of South Central Modern Language Association. Special Session:
On the Margins of the 21st Century: Writing Programs of the Future. Dallas. October 1997.
Session Chair. Conference of South Central Modern Language Association Session: Closing the Borders to Academe: Are Basic Writing Programs Under Siege? San Antonio. October 1996.
Program Chair. Conference of Texas Council of Teachers of English, Division I, II. Texas A&M University-Kingsville, October 1996.
Faculty Mentor (Laura Gonzales, University of Texas at El Paso). NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Program. National Council for the Teaching of English. Faculty Mentor of New Scholars of Color. August 2016 to February 2018.
Session Chair, La Lucha: The Struggle for Hispanic Civil Rights, 1920s to the Present, Texas A&M University, March 2004.
Visiting Scholar
Faculty Mentor (Laura Gonzales, University of Texas at El Paso). NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Program. National Council for the Teaching of English. Faculty Mentor of New Scholars of Color. August 2016 to February 2018.
Faculty Mentor. (Lorena Gutierrez, University of California, Riverside) NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Program. National Council for the Teaching of English. Faculty Mentor of New Scholars of Color. August 2014 to February 2016.
Visiting Scholar. Multilingual UX Symposium. University of Texas-El Paso. November 2017.
Visiting Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Program. Winter Institute. California State University Northridge. March 2018.
Visiting Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Program. Winter Institute. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. February 2017.
Visiting Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices of Scholars of Color Program. NCTE Winter Institute. University of Texas, San Antonio. February 2016.
Visiting Scholar. NCTE Cultivating New Voices of Scholars of Color Institute. NCTE Winter Institute. University of California, Berkeley. February 2015.
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITY
Affiliated Faculty & Executive Committee Appointments
Advisory Board. The Center for Regional Studies. University of New Mexico. November 2023 to present.
Crossing Latinidades Office of Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee Member. University of New Mexico. November 2020 to May 2022.
Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Advisory Board Member. University of New Mexico. August 2021 to present.
Translingual Literacy Studies Colloquium Event Coordinator. UNM Department of English Colloquia Series. Featured Speakers: Alyssa Cavazos (March 2021); Morris Young (September 2021); Rachel Jackson (October 2021); Jacqueline Jones Royster (November 2021); Shiben Banerji (February 2022); Ralph Cintron, Ruben Casas, and Frida Sanchez-Vega (April 2022).
Faculty Advisor ASUNM Lobo Gardens Club. University of New Mexico. September 2019 to Spring 2022.
Faculty Advisor GPSA Chicanx Studies Graduate Student Organization. University of New Mexico. September 2022 to present.
Faculty Advisor ASUNM We Care (Environmental Activism) Club. University of New Mexico. September 2021 to present.
UNM Sustainability Studies Earth Day Expo Exhibit Faculty Advisor. University of New Mexico. April 2022.
Faculty Advisor Lobo Gardens/Sustainability Studies (Affiliated Courses). ASUNM University of New Mexico. August 2018 to present.
Faculty Advisor EcoLiteracy at UNM Digital Hub.
October 2018 to present.
Affiliated Faculty Sustainability Studies Program, University of New Mexico. April 2016 to present.
Affiliated Faculty Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center of Health Policy, University of New Mexico. October 2010 to 2013.
Affiliated Faculty Latin American Studies Program, University of New Mexico. Spring 2007 to present.
Affiliated Faculty Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University of New Mexico. Spring 2008 to present.
Affiliated Faculty Chicano/a Studies Program/Department. University of New Mexico. June 2012 to present.
Executive Board. Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR), University of New Mexico 2005 to 2007.
Program Chair. Department Translingual Literacy Studies Spring 2022 Workshop. "Linguistic Equity: Resisting Linguistic Racism through Translingual Literacy Practice in English Studies" by Alyssa Cavazos (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley). March 2021;
Program Chair. Department Translingual Literacy Studies Spring 2022 Workshop. “The Shoulders We Stand On: The History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico” by Rebecca Blum Martinez (UNM, Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies). April 2021.
Coordinator and Digital Hub Content Manager. Department of English. Translingual Literacy Studies at UNM. November 2020 to present.
Executive Committee, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of New Mexico. 2022 to present.
Executive Committee. Department of English. University of New Mexico. 2015 to 2017.
Executive Committee. Department of English, University of New Mexico. 2005 to 2007.
Executive Board, Women’s Studies Program, University of New Mexico. 2008 to 2009.
Department of English Faculty Colloquium Presentation. “What the Cold War Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Democracy.” October 2017.
Workshop 1: “Knowing Our Students” (March 2014);
UNM Writing Across Communities Events Program Chair (2004-2014):
Featured Speaker/Facilitator UNM Writing Workshops: “Citizen Scholars: Cultivating Cultural Ecologies of Writing” WAC Series (March to April 2014):
Workshop 1: “Knowing Our Students” (March 2014);
Workshop 2: “Inviting Our Students into Academic Discourse” (March 2014);
Workshop 3: “Mentoring Our Students into Professional and Civic Cultures (April 2014).
Celebration of Student Writing Exhibits Student Union Ballroom (October 21, 2010; October 31, 2011; October 19, 2012; October 16, 2013);
Writing the World Symposium 2012: “Ecotones: Productive Spaces, Converging Communities.”
Paul Kei Matsuda (Arizona State University), Ecopsychologist Allen D. Kanner, PhD (UC Berkeley 1981), Michelle Eodice (University of Oklahoma) (April 18-20, 2012);
ABQ Community Writing Center Advisory Committee. (October 2012-May 2013);
Writing the World Symposium 2013; “Cultivating Connections: Writing Across Communities as an Act of Social Wellness.” Martha Townsend (University of Missouri) and Juan Guerra (University of Washington) (April 19, 2013);
Writing the World Symposium 2014: “Rhetorical Listening: Navigating Disparities in Privilege.” Krista Ratcliffe (Marquette University) (April 11, 2014);
Civic Literacy Colloquium Guest Lecture: “Farewell, My Normal Life: Misadventures in Sustainable Living.” Doug Fine (November 10, 2010);
Civic Literacy Guest Lecture: “Environmental Rhetoric and the Question of Climate Change.” Michael Coffey (November 17, 2010);
Write On! Workshops at UNM Student Union (Fall 2010- Spring 2013);
Writing Across Communities Faculty Outreach Project (Fall 2010-Spring 2011);
Civil Rights Symposium on Mental Health and the Community (March 4, 2011);
1st Annual UNM Mental Health Week (February 28-March 4, 2011);
Working With Writers Workshop: “Recognizing Diverse Discourses.” Tiffany Rousculp, Salt Lake Community Writing Center (March 23 & 24, 2011);
2011 Earth Day Conference: “Constructing Space(s): Making our Home(s) in the Twenty-First Century.” M. Jimmie Killingsworth (Texas A&M University) (April 22, 2011);
ABQ Community Writing Center Project (Fall 2010-Spring 2011);
UNM WAC Newsletter “Writing Communities” Volume 1, Issue 1: February 2011;
UNM WAC Newsletter. “Writing Communities” Volume 2, Issue 1: April 2012.
Program Chair. University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities 2009 Civic Literacy Colloquium Series. Featured Speaker: Sarah Cortez “Significant Voices: Women on Equal Rights and Sexual Justice.” March 2009.
Program Co-Chair with Charles Paine. University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities Assessment Workshop “Assessing Student Learning with Writing.” Featured Speaker: Linda Adler-Kassner. April 2009.
Program Chair. University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities 2008 Civic Literacy Colloquia Series. Featured Speaker: Kent Ryden “Place-Based Learning and Writing Across Communities” October 2008.
Program Chair. University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities 2008 Civil Rights Symposium. “Civic Literacies across Communities.” Featured Speaker: Keith Gilyard. Albuquerque. September 2008.
Program Chair. University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities 2007 Civil Rights Symposium. “40 Years of Community Activism, 1967-2007: Civil Rights Reform, Then and Now.” Featured Speakers: Hector Galán, Kehaulani Kauanui, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and Vicente Ximenes. Albuquerque. September 2007.
Program Chair, University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities WAC Week, “Writing Matters.” Featured Speakers: Reed Way Dasenbrock, Amy Wohlert, Karen Olson, and Eliseo Torres. Albuquerque. October 2006.
Program Chair, University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities WAC Week, “Writing Across Communities: Inviting Our Students to Academic Literacies” Co-Chair with Hector Torres. Featured Speakers: Susan McLeod (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Barbara Johnstone (Carnegie Mellon). Albuquerque. November 2005.
Program Chair. University of New Mexico, Writing Across Communities 2005 “Writing Across Communities: Literacy and Diversity at the University of New Mexico.” Featured Speaker: Juan Guerra (University of Washington). Albuquerque. April 2005.
Committee Service
Center for Regional Studies. Faculty Research Grant Review Committee Member. April 2022.
Center for Regional Studies. Graduate Student Research Fellowship Review Committee Member. April 2021.
Project Chair. Translingual Literacy Studies at UNM Colloquia Series.
Project Chair. EcoLiteracy at UNM Digital Hub. January 2019 to present.
Program Chair. GreenBag Guest Speaker Roundtable. Featured Scholar: Rachel Jackson (Oklahoma State University, Cherokee Nation). “Green Corn and Sacred Fire: Indigenous Ceremonies of Resistance.” October 2019.
Presenter and Workshop Facilitator with Jessica Bowen. “Rhetorical Resources of Science, Medical, and Environmental Writing.” UNM Health Symposium. April 2019.
Program Chair. Sustainability Studies Program GreenBag Guest Speaker Roundtable Series. August to December 2017.
Center for Regional Studies. Faculty Awards Research Grant Committee Member. August to December 2017.
Tenure and Promotion Committee. Department of English Rhetoric & Writing Faculty Representative. September 2016 to January 2017.
American Indian Summer Bridge Program. Invited Speaker ENGL 298. July 2015.
Faculty Advisor (and Nominating Faculty Member). El Centro de la Raza, El Puente Undergraduate Fellows Program. September 2015 to May 2016.
Department of English Executive Committee. August 2015 to May 2017.
Department of English Tenure and Promotion Committee. August 2016 to May 2017.
College of Arts and Sciences, Mid Probationary Tenure and Promotion Review Committee. December 2014 to March 2015.
$150,000 inter-departmental internal grant support for WAC at the University of New Mexico).
Development Coordinator and Grant Writer. Writing Across Communities Initiative 2004 to 2014. (Generated over
$150,000 inter-departmental internal grant support for WAC at the University of New Mexico).
Member. Foundations of Excellence Task Force. Learning Dimensions Subcommittee. Chair: Kate Krause, Dean of University College. September 2012 to May 2013.
Member. University Career Advisory Committee. University of New Mexico. January to May 2014.
Member. Provost’s Diversity Council. September 2011 to May 2012.
Co-Chair with Nancy Lopez (Professor, Sociology). Provost’s Diversity Council Curriculum Subcommittee January 2012 to May 2012.
Chair. University of New Mexico Core Curriculum Task Force. July 2009 to May 2010.
Member. Provost’s Core Curriculum Task Force. August 2010 to May 2011.
Chair. College of Arts and Science. Strategic Committee on Core Writing. September 2011-May 2012.
Co-Chair. Hiring Search Committee Rhetoric & Writing Program/College of Education (LLSS) Assistant Professor Joint Appointment. 2011-2012.
Chair. Rhetoric & Writing Faculty and Graduate Student Forum. November 2011 to May 2012.
Nominating Faculty Advisor: Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship (Graduate Student) Awarded May 2013.
Nominating Faculty Advisor: Udall Scholarship: Honorary Mention (Undergraduate Student) May 2014.
Nominating Faculty Advisor: Hector Torres Fellowship. (Graduate Student). Awarded May 2014.
Member. Office of Student Affairs. Louie Awards Selection Committee. Faculty Representative. April 2012.
Member. Provost’s Hiring Search Committee. University of New Mexico Director of Center for Academic Programs. 2011-2012.
Member. Hiring Search Committee Rhetoric & Writing Program (Writing Program Administrator/ Professional Writing/Assistant Professor Appointments). November 2011 to April 2012.
Faculty Advisor. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center of Health Policy Fellows Program. January 2011 to 2014.
Coordinator. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center of Health Policy Junior Scholars Working Group. September 2011 to May 2012.
Chair. Rhetoric & Writing Faculty/Graduate Student Forum. November 2011 to April 2012.
Member. Rhetoric and Writing Graduate Committee Comprehensive Reading List Subcommittee. Fall 2012.
Faculty Advisor and Development Coordinator. Dr. Vicente Ximenes Scholarship in Public Rhetoric & Community Literacy. Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing Graduate Program. 2005 to 2015. (8 Awards).
Coordinator. Dr. Vicente Ximenes Memorial Tribute Reception. University of New Mexico. Sponsored by Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. March 2014.
Member. Hiring Search Committee Rhetoric & Writing Program/College of Education (LLSS) Assistant Professor Joint Appointment. 2010-2011.
Invited Speaker. Center for Academic Programs (CAPS). University of New Mexico. “The Ecology of Culture and Communication: Principles of Generativity.” March 2009.
Faculty Advisor English Graduate Student Association (EGSA). January 2009 to May 2009.
Invited Speaker. University of New Mexico. Department of English. EGSA Professional Development Guest Speaker Series. “The Conference Paper: Joining Your Intellectual Discourse Community.” October 2010.
Invited Speaker. University of New Mexico. Department of English. EGSA Professional Development Guest Speaker Series. “Navigating Your Graduate Career.” April 2009.
Nominating Faculty. University of New Mexico Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for Vicente Ximenes. May 2008.
Provost’s Diversity Committee, University of New Mexico. 2007 to 2009.
Graduate Studies Committee, Department of English, University of New Mexico. 2008 to 2009.
Strategic Planning Committee, University of New Mexico. 2006 to 2007.
Undergraduate Studies Committee. Department of English. University of New Mexico. 2004 to 2005.
$20,000.00 May 2015.
Founder. Vicente Ximenes Scholarship in Public Rhetoric and Community Literacy, Department of English, University of New Mexico. Established May 2005. Endowment
(12 Awards).
$20,000.00 May 2015.
Faculty Advisor. Department of English. Writing Across Communities (WAC) Alliance (ASUNM Chartered Student Organization). August 2006 to September 2014.
Faculty Advisor and Development Coordinator. ABQ Community Writing Center. Albuquerque Main Public Library. March 2011 to 2013.
Writing Consultant and Facilitator. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center of Health Policy Junior Faculty Research and Writing Retreat. January 2013 to May 2015.
Texas A&M University Committee Appointments (1997 to 2004)
Secretary, Writing Course Advisory Committee, Core Curriculum Council, Texas A&M University, September 2003 to August 2004.
International Education Scholarship Selection Committee Member, Texas A&M University. April to November 2003.
Invited Speaker, 2003 Texas A&M University L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness Fellows and International Service Banquet, “El Paseo: A Writer's Journey through Historic Spain.” January 2003.
Coordinator, University Honors Program, Texas A&M University, Century Scholars' Presentation. “In Search of Diversity: Joining the Discourse Communities of Texas A&M.” December 2002.
Coordinator with Larry Oliver and panelist, Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Grant Writing Colloquium, November 2002.
Invited Paper, Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology Colloquium. “The Rhetorics of Race, Citizenship, and Mexican American Civil Rights.” November 2002.
Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts, Affiliated Faculty. University Honors Program, May to December 2002.
Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching Selection Committee Member, Texas A&M University. April 2002.
Invited Paper, Texas A&M University Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Hispanic Studies Research Forum. “The Rhetorical Value of Codeswitching.” College Station. April 2001.
Sigma Tau Delta. Historian. August 1995 to May 1996.
Texas A& M University-Kingsville Committee Appointments (1993 to 1997)
Deming Quality Improvement Group. January 1995 to May 1997.
Sigma Tau Delta. Historian. August 1995 to May 1996.
Texas A&M University System-Wide Women’s Issues Conference.
First Year Composition Committee. August 1995 to May 1997.
Department of Language and Literature Senior Futures Night. August 1994.
Texas A&M University System-Wide Women’s Issues Conference.
Program Planning Committee. March 1996.
Writing Across the Curriculum Task Group. May 1996 to October 1996.
Enrollment Management Team. May 1996 to May 1997.
Student Retention Committee. September 1996 to May 1997.
Writing Across the Curriculum Task Group. May 1996 to October 1996.
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
Community Support Service & Projects
Executive Director. Southwest Environmental Education Cooperative (SWEEC) Community Writing Workshops: Bayard Public Library (June 2021); Columbus Public Library (May 2021); Hatch Public Library (May 2021); Kingston Black Range Lodge (June 2021); Tewa Women United, Valdez Park, Española (September 2021).
Program Chair. Black Range Environmental Writers (BREW) Speaker Series & Community Writing Workshops October 2019 to present.
Scholarship Award Committee. Albuquerque Community Foundation. April 2018.
Project Grant Committee. Albuquerque Community Foundation Environmental and Historic Preservation Committee. July 2017.
Project Chair. Salt of the Earth Recovery Project. Bayard, New Mexico. July 2017 to present.
Editor/Content Manager. Salt of the Earth Recovery Project. November 2017 to present.
Founder and Coordinator: Writer-in-Residence Fellowship Program. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. January 2017 to present. (15 Awards).
Founder and Program Chair, National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. Inaugural Meeting. 2016 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta. May 2016.
Editor/Content Manger. University of New Mexico. Writing Across Communities Website. 2004 to 2014. < http://www.unm.edu/~wac>
Editor/Content Manager. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing Website. 2016 Conference of Rhetoric Society of America.
Program Chair. NCERW Regional Chairs Summit. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. University of New Mexico. October 2016.
Founder. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric (NCERW) New Voices Incentive Scholarship (For Indigenous Undergraduate-Level Scholars). University of New Mexico. September 2016 to present. (3 Awards)
Founder. Ulysses Segovia Scholarship in Environmental Sciences, Public Health, and Ecological Literacies. Sponsored by National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. (For Secondary-Level Scholars). June 2016 to present. (15 Awards).
Editor/Content Manager. Writing Across Communities Resource Website. 2015 Conference on Community Writing. Featured Speaker. “Citizen Scholars and the Cultural Rhetorical Ecologies of Writing Across Communities.”
New Mexico Higher Education Department. Core Curriculum Steering Committee. Santa Fe, NM. July to September 2009.
Invited Speaker. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center of Health Policy. University of New Mexico. “Eco-Literacy & Rhetorics of Engagement.” January 2011.
Invited Speaker. Civil Rights Symposium, Luna Community College, Las Vegas, NM. October 2007.
Latino Caucus
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NCTE
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
National Council of Teachers of English/Conference of College Composition and Communication
Latino Caucus
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NCTE
New Mexico Historical Society
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
New Mexico Historical Society
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Spanish (Oral and Written Proficiency)
University of New Mexico, Faculty Research Leave, Spring 2016.
INTERNATIONAL STUDY AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
University of New Mexico, Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave, 2021-2022.
University of New Mexico, Faculty Research Leave, Spring 2016.
University of New Mexico, Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave, 2009-2010.
University of New Mexico, Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, Memoir Workshop, July 2015.
University of New Mexico, Faculty Research Leave, Fall 2014.
University of New Mexico, Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave, 2009-2010.
University of New Mexico, Taos Summer Writers' Conference, Poetry Workshop, July 2005.
University of Arizona Summer School in Guadalajara, Mexico. July to August 1993.
University of New Mexico, Taos Summer Writers' Conference, Poetry Workshop, July 2006.
University of New Mexico, Taos Summer Writers' Conference, Poetry Workshop, July 2005.
L.T. Jordan International Fellow at Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain. July 2002.
