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Ruiz Successfully Defends Dissertation

Ruiz Successfully Defends Dissertation

The Latino Caucus would like to congratulate Iris Ruiz who successfully defended her dissertation this year. Ruiz has accepted an offer at the University of California, Merced, the newest of the UC system. Starting this fall, she will be working... (Continue reading)

Leon Successfully Defends Dissertation

Leon Successfully Defends Dissertation

The Latino Caucus would like to congratulate Kendall Leon who successfully defended her dissertation this year. Leon will be joining the faculty of Rhetoric & Composition at Purdue University this Fall. The project abstract follows: Building a Chicana Rhetoric for... (Continue reading)

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2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

KR will be accepting electronic submissions February 1st through February 28th, 2010, through the Short Fiction Contest page of the KR website. Louise Erdrich will be the final judge. The winning story will be published in The Kenyon Review, and... (Continue reading)

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Ramón Accomplishments

We would like to congratulate: Bettina Ramón for successfully defending her Master’s thesis titled “Composing, Gender, and Composing Gender: The Construction of Gender Variance in Online Spaces.” Abstract: In this work, I identify the ways in which blogs problematize the... (Continue reading)

Ramírez Achievements

We would like to congratulate the following individuals: Cristina Devereaux Ramírez for the successful defense of her dissertation titled “Claiming the Discursive Self: The Rhetoric of Mexican Women Journalists, 1876-1940.” Cristina currently holds a Post-Doctoral position as a research and writing... (Continue reading)

College English: “Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad”

NCTE Latina/o Caucus members Damián Baca and Victor Villanueva co-edited a special edition of College English, “Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad,” 71.6 July 2009. Table of Contents: Introduction Damián Baca and Victor Villanueva “The Chicano Codex: Writing against Historical and Pedagogical... (Continue reading)

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Victor Villanueva Receives 2009 CCCC Exemplar Award

Victor Villanueva Receives 2009 CCCC Exemplar Award

Those of us in attendance at this year’s opening plenary of the CCCC in San Francisco, on the morning of March 12th, got to see something really special. We got to see Victor Villanueva receive his much-deserved CCCC Exemplar Award,... (Continue reading)

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2009 Scholars for the Dream Award Winners

2009 Scholars for the Dream Award Winners

The Scholars for the Dream Award was established in 1992 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Its goal is to “encourage scholarship by historically underrepresented groups….—persons whose presence and whose contributions are central to the full realization of... (Continue reading)

2010 CFP for CCCC Louisville, Kentucky

2010 CFP for CCCC Louisville, Kentucky

Take advantage of the renewed enthusiasm gained at CCCC and review the Call for Papers for the 2010 CCCC Annual Convention, “The Remix: Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew,” which will be held March 17-20, 2010, in Louisville, Kentucky. To submit your... (Continue reading)

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Writing and Working for Change: A History of Social Movements by Teachers Within NCTE/CCCC

Participation Deadline: April 30th, 2009 Draft Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2010 Editors: Cristina Kirklighter, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Steve Parks, Syracuse University Samantha Blackmon, Purdue University In 2011, NCTE will celebrate its 100th year of continued support to teachers of English,... (Continue reading)

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