Visiting Assistant Professor/Houston Writing Fellow - University of Houston
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." ~Horace Mann
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I am currently teaching the diverse student population at the University of Houston main campus in Houston, TX. I completed my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at El Paso in May 2016 .
My research interests include responding to student writing, multi-modal technologies in the classroom, technical writing, professional writing, education rhetoric, political rhetoric, writing pedagogies and discourse.
My academic background is comprised of political science, technical writing, and organizational communication, prior to entering the field of rhetoric and composition.
THOUGHTS ON TEACHING
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. ~Dan Rather
FAVORITE QUOTE
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ~ Henry David Thoreau
CURRENT PROJECT
Completing Book Manuscript based on my dissertation (A Critical Analysis of the Rhetoric of Education Reform in the United States) for summer 2018.