- Dr. Pamela Anderson-Mejías
- Professor / Senior Associate Dean & Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise: Applied & sociolinguistics; Online learning, LMLS
Office: ELABS 242
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3424
Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Affiliated Faculty
Faculty
- Nayelly Barrios
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing; Code-Switching
Office: ELABS 245
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2374
- Triauna Carey
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Alyssa Cavazos
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Writing Studies and First-Year Writing; Translingual Writing and Pedagogies; Writing Across the Curriculum; Border rhetorics; Teacher Preparation
Office: ELABS 270A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8779
- Dr. Colin Charlton
- Professor / Department Chair
Areas of Expertise: Writing Pedagogy; Writing Program Administration; Teacher Professional Development; Assessment; Multimodality
Fall 2022 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Katherine Christoffersen
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; bilingualism; language and identity; conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M 1:00p-3:00p (Online via Microsoft Teams)Office: ELABS 226
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8102
- Dr. Amanda Cruz
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Neurorhetorics, Disability Studies, Rhetoric of Silence and Exclusion, Women’s Rhetorics, Teacher Preparation and Professional Development, Cross Institutional Vertical Alignment, Translingual Writing and Pedagogies, and Translanguaging
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M-R 7:00a-9:00a & F by appt zoom code 2396044316Office: ELABS 266A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3551
- Dr. José Dávila-Montes
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Translation Studies; Cross-cultural Studies; Compared Rhetoric
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M 9:00a-2:00pOffice: BMAIN 1.526
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8215
- Thomas De La Cruz
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Writing studies, and Code-Switching
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 9:00a-9:30a & 1:45p-2:45p; T 12:30p-1:30p & 1:30p-2:30p. Zoom https//utrgv.zoom.us/j/3320353840Office: ELABS 266
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8781
- Norma Denae Dibrell
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: composition studies, transfer studies, translingual pedagogy, translingual theory, antiracist pedagogy, decolonial theory
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M 10:00a-12:00p ; W 9:00a-12:00pOffice: ELABS 266B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Dr. Sheila Dooley
- Associate Professor / Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Linguistics: typology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisitionAreas of Expertise:
Fall 2022: By appointment only.Office: BMAIN 1.534
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7110
- Dr. Minhee Eom
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Language testing, English as a Second Language, quantitative research
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 11:00a-12:20 pm ; TRF by appointment.Office: ELABS 241
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3424
- Marianita Escamilla
- Senior Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Literary Nonfiction; Service Leaning; Nonprofits; Popular Culture
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MWF 10:00a-11:00a via Zoom ; TR 12:45p-1:45pOffice: ELABS 205A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8771
- Shoney Flores
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy; Rhetoric and Composition Pedagogy; Online and Hybrid Pedagogy; Literary Translation; Developmental Education Pedagogy
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 12:15p-2:00p ; F by appointmentOffice: ELABS 270
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2373
- Dr. John Foreman
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Theoretical linguistics; syntax; documenting endangered languages; indigenous languages of the Americas; Zapotec
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 3:15-4:45 pm via Zoom https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/8273002187 ; T 4:00p-5:00pOffice: ELABS 231
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3427
- Amy Frazier
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Short stories - fiction about the people of the Rio Grande Valley
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 3:20-5:50 pmOffice: BSABH 2.420
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8843
- Dr. Nazaret Fresno Cañada
- Associate Professor / Associate Chair
Areas of Expertise: Audiovisual translation, media accessibility, audio description, closed captioning, live subtitling
Fall 2022 Office Hours: T 3:00p-5:00p, or by appointmentOffice: BMAIN 1.528
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7450
- Bonnie Garcia
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Composition Pedagogy; Gamification; Discourse Analysis
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 9:30a-10:30a ; TR 4:00p-5:00p via Zoom (82699938208); F 1:00p-5:00pOffice: ELABS 271
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3335
- Dennis Garza
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2022 Office Hours: TR 1:00-2:00 pm, email for appointmentOffice: BSABH 2.202
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8246
- Dr. Gabriel González Núñez
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Translation & interpreting; Legal translation; Court interpreting; Translation policy
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M-F by appointmentOffice: BMAIN 1.520
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7658
- Joshua Gray
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing - Fiction
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M-R 8:30a-9:30a.Office: ELABS 270B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8779
- Tomas Guerrero
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Metacognitive Studies; Practical application of theory (Praxis)
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 12:45p-1:45p Zoom ; T 3:30p-5:30p Zoom 6961313043Office: ELABS 268B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8773
- Dr. Tekla Hawkins
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: rhetoric, new media, feminism, composition
Fall 2022 Office Hours: By appointment only.Office: ELABS 267
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3447
- Marcela Hebbard
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Online writing, translingualism, teacher preparation, second language writing, composition pedagogies, second language acquisition and writing development, transnational writing
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 3:30p-5:00p in office; TR 11:00a-2:00p by appointment only.Office: ELABS 271
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3335
- Miriam Herrera
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Composition & Rhetoric; Poetry Writing; Creative Writing; Mexican American Literature; Contemporary American Poetry
Fall 2022 Office Hours: By appointment onlyOffice: ELABS 205A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8771
- Pamela Herring
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition, Environmental Studies
Fall 2022 Office Hours: T 11:30a-12:30p; W 11:00a-12:30p; R 11:00a-12:30p & 3:15p-4:15pOffice: BSABH 2.410
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8884
- Stefanie Herweck
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Environmental Studies
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 2:15p-3:15p via Zoom ; TR 2:15p-3:15pOffice: ELABS 245
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2374
- Andrew Hollinger
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: de/re-professionalization of the "teaching class" (articulation of the interstices between teacher/institution/stakeholder/policy); writing programs + WPA issues; event theory + public rhetoric
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW by appointment ; TR 12:30p-1:45pOffice: ELABS 266
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8781
- Danyal Howard
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2022 Office Hours: W 9:30a-2:00p ; F 9:30a-12:00pOffice: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Dr. Margarita Isbell
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Contrastive Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Office: ELABS 345D
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Cynthia Lopez Guerrero
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Observing and discussing freshmen learning and writing habits as well as teacher pedagogies and practices.
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MT 3:30p-5:00p ; W 3:30p-5:00p.Office: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8975
- Shaun McCrory
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics; Linguistics and Political Economy
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW by appointment; TR 9:30a-11:30a ; F 2:30p-3:30p in BrownsvilleOffice: ELABS 205
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8771
- Charles McGregor
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Digital Rhetoric; Creative Writing; Queer Studies; Composition: First-Year Writing; Social Media
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M-R 12:30p-2:00pOffice: ELABS 270B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8789
- Susan Mills
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Service Learning in Composition; Curriculum Design in Writing Courses; The Application of Positive Psychology in Education and Writing; Online Teaching and Learning; First-Year Writing
Office: BSABH 2.202
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8246
- Dr. Randall Monty
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Critical Discourse Studies; Writing Center Studies; Border Studies; Technical Communication
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M 1:00p-4:00p ELABS 203; T 12:30p- 2:00p BSABH 2.408Office: ELABS 203
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8713
- Dr. Beatrice Newman
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and composition; Hispanic student writing; English Language Arts teacher preparation
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 10:00a-11:00a; M-R 1:00p-5:00p; F 8:00a-12:00pOffice: ELABS 208
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7384
- Dr. John Newman
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: English historical linguistics; English dialectal variation
Fall 2022 Office Hours: TR 10:00a-11:00a & 12:30p-2:00pOffice: BSABH 2.404
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7020
- Nicole Nicholson
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Literacy/reading instruction; content-based ESL
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 12:30p-1:30p ; TR 11:00a-12:00pOffice: ELABS 269B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7895
- Dr. Mark Noe
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Rhetorical Theory; Pragmatism; Game-Based Learning
Office: ELABS 219
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3430
- Mijin Oh-Villarreal
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Korean Language Studies, Korean Culture. Korean traditional music, Early Childhood Education
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M 9:40a-10:40a; TR 8:20a-9:20a; W 9:40a-10:40a & 12:20p-1:20p; F by appointment.Office: ELABS 245A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8118
- Ramses Ortin-Soriano
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Applied Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Bilingualism; Multilingualism
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M 9:00a-11:00aOffice: ELABS 225
- Email:
- Valerie Ortiz
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 9:30a-10:30a ; T11:30a-1:30p by Zoom (216 328 3085)Office: ELABS 266B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Regine Pellicer
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Socio-linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Writing Pedagogy
Fall 2022 Office Hours: TR 10:30a-11:00a & 6:00p-6:30p; MW 12:30p-1:30p; F 10:30a-11:30aOffice: ELABS 268A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8772
- Brittany Ramirez-Carter
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Composition Studies, First Year Composition, Discourse and Literacy Studies
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 12:15p-2:00p via ZoomOffice: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8780
- Dr. Marshall Saenz
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 1:00p-3:00p; T 11:10a-12:00pOffice: ELABS 269A
- Email:
- Yemin Sanchez
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Composition Studies; English as a Second Language; English Language Arts & Reading; Language and Culture; Hispanic First Year Writing Students
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 11:00a-12:00p; TR 12:30p-1:30p; or by appointmentOffice: ELABS 266A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Topacio Santivañez-Pool
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: First Year Writing; Composition Studies; Cultural Studies
Fall 2022 Office Hours: M-R 2:30p-3:30p via ZoomOffice: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8780
- Dr. Maggie Shelledy
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Writing Studies; Rhetorical History and Theory; Carceral Studies; Environmental Studies; Community Literacy
Fall 2022 Office Hours: T 2:00p-4:00p (E) online; W 12:00p-1:30p (E) online: R 12:00p-1:30p (B) onlineOffice: BSABH 2.408
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8840
- Lupita Strong
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and Composition; First-Year Writing
Fall 2022 Office Hours: TR 12:30p-1:30p; by appointment Zoom (696 182 8207)Office: BMAIN 1.210B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8874
- Dorian Vázquez
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Court Interpreting (EN<>ES); Translation and Interpreting; Conference Interpreting
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MW 3:30p-4:30p (E); TR by appointment; F (B) 11:00a-12:00p.Office: ELABS 345A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8122
- Dr. Sarah Warren-Riley
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Technical Communication, Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2022 Office Hours: MR 12:30p-3:00p via Zoom by appointment; TF by appointment onlyOffice: ELABS 274
- Email:
- Dr. Yong Kang Wei
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and Professional Communication; Rhetorical Theory; Non-Western Rhetorics (mainly Chinese); Intercultural Communication; Technical and Business Communication
Fall 20221 Office Hours: 24/7 online or by appointmentOffice: BSABH 2.406
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7713
Part-Time Faculty
- Marlene Galvan
- Director of the Writing Center / Part-Time Lecturer - Writing & Language Studies
Areas of Expertise: rhetoric & composition; writing in the disciplines/writing across the curriculum
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching scheduleOffice: ESTAC 3.119
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7974
Graduate Teaching Assistants
- No Scheduled Teaching Assistants for this semester
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
Affiliated Faculty
- Dr. Khalid Aada
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Francophone Literature, Multilingualism, Cultural Identity and Education in Francophone countries, The Culture conflict between tradition and modernization in the Arab world.
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Department of Literatures & Cultural Studies
Office: BSABH 2.114A- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8891
- Dr. Irina Armianu
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: French Thought, Teaching with Technology, Contemporary Novel, French Film Studies, Women and Gender Studies
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M&W 11:00-12:00pm via zoomDepartment of Literatures & Cultural Studies
Office: ELABS 345B- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2106