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Education

Ph.D. Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Expected 2020, “The Available Means of Motherhood: Writing as a Tool to Mother While Behind Bars,” Advisor: Patricia Roberts-Miller

M.A. Rhetoric & Writing , University of Texas at Austin, 2016, “Writing Their Way Through Motherhood: An Investigation of Writing’s Role in the Methods Incarcerated Mothers use to Mother While Behind Bars,” Advisors: Patricia Roberts-Miller & Casey Boyle

Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, Texas Christian University, 2015

B.A. English, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, CO2011

Honors & Awards

May Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2019  

English Department Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2018    

Florence Durrett Endowed Presidential Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Global Outlooks on Education Institute Fellow , Texas Christian University, 2015

Graduate Student Travel Grant, Texas Christian University, 2013, 2014

English Department Travel Grant, Texas Christian University, 2012, 2013

University Fellowship, Texas Christian University, 2012- 2013

Certificates

Inclusive Classrooms Leadership, University of Texas at Austin, 2018

Grant Writing I, II, University of Texas at Austin, 2018

Questionnaire Design and Survey Analysis, University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Certificate in “Crucial Conversations” Training, Texas Christian University, 2013

course work

University of Texas at Austin

Rhetoric & Writing Studies, Spring 2017

Networked Writing, SUPV Teaching in Rhet/Writing, Fall 2016

Feminist Jurisprudence, Extrahuman Rhetorical Relations, Spring 2016

Memory/Trauma/Violence, Digital Rhetorics, Race/Class/ Gender in American TV, Fall 2015

Texas Christian university

Directed Pedagogy: Women’s Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, Introduction to Feminist Theory, Spring 2015   

Writing for the Profession, Dissertation Hours, Fall 2014

Modern Critical Theory, Women’s Rhetoric, Research Practices: Rhetoric & Composition, Spring 2014                                                                                                                                                                                              

Directed Pedagogy: Prison Literature, Teaching College Composition, Fall 2013

Directed Study: Critical Race Theory, Modern Rhetoric, Spring 2013

Introduction to Composition Studies, Latino/a Poetics, Language and Theory, Fall 2012                                             

Teaching experience

Instructor of Record

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, Princeton, Summer 2017, 2018, 2019

RHET 309K: The Rhet of Injustice in Comics, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2017, Spring 2018

RHET 306: Cost & Crisis in Higher Education, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2016, Spring 2017

ENG 20803: Writing As Argument , Texas Christian University, Fall 2014, Spring 2015

ENG 10803: Writing As Inquiry Texas Christian University, Fall 2013, Spring 2014

Teaching Assistant

RHET 398T: Supervised Teaching, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018, Fall 2019

E316L: British Literature, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015, Spring 2016

Adult GED Course, Pueblo County Jail, Spring 2011, Summer 2011

Co-Taught

SOC 307E: Contemporary U.S. Social Problems, Gardner Betts Juvenile Detention Center, Spring 2019

Designed

RHE 306: Inclusion and Diversity on the College Campus, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2019

Academic Work Experience

Assistant Director of Lower Division Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018-Present

Presentations CO-Coordinator, UT University Writing Center, Fall 2017-Present

Writing Consultant, UT University Writing Center, Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017

Tutor—English, Math, Social Studies, Math Around the Corner, Fort Worth, TX, 2015-2016

Admissions Counselor, Ashford University, Denver, CO, 2012

Service

Writing Center Inclusion Discussion Group, University of Texas at Austin, 2019

Lower Division Rhetoric & Writing Curriculum Committee, University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2018

Lower Division Rhetoric & Writing Online Curriculum Committee, University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2018

First-Year Forum Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2017, Spring 2018

Incarcerated Survivors Advocacy Program, Austin, TX, 2017-2018

Opening Doors For Women, Fort Worth, TX, 2014