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Assistant Professor, Writing

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Degrees

  • PhD Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas at El Paso
  • MA Comparative Literature, Universidad de Guadalajara
  • BA English, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua

Areas of Interest

  • Latin American Indigenous Studies
  • Latino Decolonial Thought
  • Cultural Rhetorics
  • Rhetorical Theory
  • Critical Pedagogy

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

  • ENG 686: Directed Reading
  • WRI 307: Latino Decolonial Rhetorics: An Indigenous / Intercultural Approach to Literacy, Education, and Civic Engagement
  • WRI 306: Rhetorics of the Image: A Decolonial Exploration of Media and Mediations
  • WRI 210: Creation and Negotiation of Research Spaces in College Composition
  • WRI 111: Writing New Media Across Difference

Selected Publications

  • Antsetik ta Pask’op sok Sk’anel te Yich’elik ta Muk’: Social Justice Movements and Maya Rhetorics.” In Just Rhetoric: The 2024 Rhetoric Society of America Conference Anthology, edited by Stephanie Jones, Gwendolyn Pough, and Erin Rand. Parlor P, in press.
  • “Pedagogía crítica retórica y alfabetizaciones en la zona fronteriza del no-ser.” Memoria del I Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Afroamérica, Casa de las Américas, 2024.
  • “Doing Translingualism Through Panoramic Ethos: Three Transnational Graduate Students’ Pathways across Multiliteracies and Implications for Program Practices.” Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Nancy Bou Ayash and Carrie Byars Kilfoil, University of Colorado Press, 2023.
  • “El desierto en el vergel, el vergel en el desierto: Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo y la tradición caballeresca del locus terribilis.” Memoria de la identidad: una mirada panorámica a la diversidad cultural mexicana, edited by Hariet Kristi Quint Berdac de Comparán, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2018.