Damián Baca “The Importance of Mentoring Latina and Latino Students” for the NCTE CNV panel on “Critical Literacy Research: 10 Years of Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color.” Friday, C.04 12:30-1:45PM, Coronado Ballroom G. Dora Ramirez Dhoore I.43 Saturday,... (Continue reading)
Damián Baca will lead the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute Workshop: “Latin American & Latina/o Rhetoric. Boulder, CO June 2011. Sponsored by the Latin American Rhetoric Association/Asociación Latinoamericana de Retórica–US Chapter. Workshop Description This workshop will provide opportunities to... (Continue reading)
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)
At the 9 a.m. Friday session, I presented my paper “Recursive Border Negotiation: Paideia, Conscientização and FYC” at the 2010 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference (http://english.arizona.edu/index_site.php?id=678) at the University of Arizona. My presentation addressed the use of “teaching as... (Continue reading)
Yazmin Lazcano We would like to congratulate Lazcano on the successful defense of her Master’s thesis titled: “Historical Memory Negotiated: Latino/a Rhetorical Reception to Ken Burns’ The War.” Her thesis is a rhetorical analysis of the controversy surrounding documentarian Ken... (Continue reading)
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)
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)
The following Latino Caucus Members will be presenting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, Kentucky held March 17-20, 2010. Ralph Cintron Octalog III: The Politics of Historiography in 2010 Abstract: “Materialist rhetoric,” “rhetorics of the everyday,” “rhetoric and... (Continue reading)
Baca, Damián and Victor Villanueva. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114BCE to 2010CE. (Studies of the Americas Series). Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Review “Rhetorics of the Americas will potentially be one of the finest contributions to rhetoric, broadly defined, in this decade.... (Continue reading)
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)