About

NEWS & UPDATES

*** officially joining the faculty at Texas Woman’s University in the fall as an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of First-Year Composition!!!!

*** my Rhetoric Society Quarterly article has been published online and is available to read!

*** honored to receive an Honorable Mention for the Dissertation Award from RSA but perhaps more honored by the comment that it was “one of the most evocative introductions to a dissertation we have ever read.” #storytellingmatters

*** completely floored to receive the award for Best Dissertation from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Thank you for supporting my project!

BIOGRAPHY

I grew up on a small farm just outside of San Antonio, Texas. My research, teaching, and engagement in public humanities are rooted in my family’s experiences in this place and in my time working in the archives of the San Antonio Public Library. I currently live in Austin, Texas with my fiancé, daughter, dog, and cat overlord. Our favorite things are pickle juice snowcones, camping, musical theatre, and upcyling.

I successfully defended my dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin in August and am currently employed there as a Postdoctoral Lecturer.

Commitment to dIversity & Equity

I grew up Latina and White-passing in Central Texas, meaning I move in many worlds. I belong to all and none of them. My father taught his three redheaded children and one dark haired daughter who died too early to be proud to be Mexican while never speaking to us in Spanish. As someone between, I grew up amidst and perceiving difference—not in humans but in their neighborhoods, their wealth, the jobs they do, the ways they are spoken to, and how early they die. I have seen and experienced cultural and economic alienation from dominant White culture in Texas. I have also been included in it and asked to perpetuate it. When I enrolled in graduate school as a single mother, and when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years later, my initial awareness of race- and class-based difference expanded further. Together, these experiences have made me deeply mindful of intersections of identity, to be aware of visibilized and invisibilized places student bodies occupy, and to consistently strive to make more space for more kinds of life.