- Dr. Pamela Anderson-Mejías
- Professor / Senior Associate Dean & Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise: Applied & sociolinguistics; Online learning, LMLS
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule. By appointment only.Office: ELABS 242
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 655-3424
Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Affiliated Faculty
Faculty
- Dr. Elvia Ardalani
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spanish; Creative Writing
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 315
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3445
- Nayelly Barrios
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing; Code-Switching
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M&T 11:15-12:15 by zoom appointmentsOffice: ELABS 245
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2374
- Dr. Ryan Bessett
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Spanish in Contact; Bilingualism; Spanish as a Heritage Language
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 234
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3426
- Triauna Carey
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: email M-F to schedule meetings via zoomOffice: 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
Summer II 2021 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 226
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 655-8102
- Dr. Julio Ciller
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Language Teaching; Applied Linguistics; Program Administration
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-9:00-10:00 & by appt https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/2306444994Office: ELABS 345C
- Email:
- 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-R 2:00-4:00pm & 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BMAIN 1.526
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8215
- Thomas De La Cruz
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Writing studies, and Code-Switching
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: MTRF 1:00-1:30pm 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: email me to setup zoom appointmentsOffice: 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:
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BMAIN 1.534
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7110
- Jeffrey Doyle
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition; Video Game Studies
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-R 11:30-12:30 pm F2F, zoom, or by appt.Office: ELABS 269A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8780
- Dr. Minhee Eom
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Language testing, English as a Second Language, quantitative research
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: MTW 6:00-7:00 pm or by appointmentOffice: ELABS 241
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3424
- Marianita Escamilla
- Senior Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Literary Nonfiction; Service Leaning; Nonprofits; Popular Culture
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: T & R 8:30-9:30 am or by appt at anytimeOffice: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: T&R 10:00-1:00 pm F2F & zoom https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/767042204Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-R 3:00-3:15 pm (361) 265-8079 (WhatsApp)Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M & W 1:00-3:00 pm Schedule by appt via emailOffice: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BMAIN 1.528
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7450
- Dr. James Frost
- Associate Professor /
Areas of Expertise: Environmental Rhetoric; Visual Rhetoric; Rhetoric of Photography
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BSABH 2.410
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8864
- Bonnie Garcia
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Composition Pedagogy; Gamification; Discourse Analysis
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-F 3:00-4:30 pm via zoom https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/83338862157Office: ELABS 271
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3335
- Carmela Garcia
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Literature from Ecuatorial Guinea; Dialects from Ecuatorial Guinea
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: MTW 4:00-5:00 pm email/zoom https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/83798881239?pwd=UjhaZWtodjZmdURLcDh5TUsrUnd2QT09Office: ELABS 318
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3446
- Dennis Garza
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M&W 1:00-2:00 pm F2F, email, zoomOffice: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BMAIN 1.520
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7658
- Joshua Gray
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing - Fiction
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 270B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8779
- Tomas Guerrero
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Metacognitive Studies; Practical application of theory (Praxis)
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-F 2:00-3:00 pm Zoom 6961313043Office: ELABS 268B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8773
- Dr. Tekla Hawkins
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: rhetoric, new media, feminism, composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 271
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3335
- Dr. José E. Hernández
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Spanish in the United States; Dialect contact
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: ThesisOffice: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7153
- Yanina Hernández
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) acquisition; Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) acquisition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 345C
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Miriam Herrera
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Composition & Rhetoric; Poetry Writing; Creative Writing; Mexican American Literature; Contemporary American Poetry
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 205A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8771
- Pamela Herring
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition, Environmental Studies
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-2:00 pmOffice: BSABH 2.410
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8884
- Stefanie Herweck
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Environmental Studies
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 266
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8781
- Danyal Howard
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: T & R 12:00-2:00 pm & Friday upon requestOffice: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Dr. John Isbell
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Romanticism.
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 345D
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Margarita Isbell
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Contrastive Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 345D
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Dania López-García
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics; Language Maintenance & Shift; Bilingualism; Language acquisition; Spanish as a Heritage Language
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BMAIN 1.512
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-6503
- Cynthia Lopez Guerrero
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Observing and discussing freshmen learning and writing habits as well as teacher pedagogies and practices.
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-F by appt via zoom code click 824-995-7791Office: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8975
- Dr. Nadeska Mayens-Robles
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean and American Spanish Dialectology; Lexical Semantics; Discourse Analysis
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 317
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3225
- Shaun McCrory
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics; Linguistics and Political Economy
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: Tues 1:10-2:10pm https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/9804448417Office: ELABS 270B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8789
- Dr. Húgo Mejías
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Hispanic Linguistics
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 322
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3445
- Dr. Maria Mendiola
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Hispanic health in the USA
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: Monday zoom by appt. & email meOffice: ELABS 345A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3226
- 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 208
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7384
- Dr. John Newman
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: English historical linguistics; English dialectal variation
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-F 9:00-10:00 am OnlineOffice: BSABH 2.404
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7020
- Nicole Nicholson
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Literacy/reading instruction; content-based ESL
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 269B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7895
- Dr. Mark Noe
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Rhetorical Theory; Pragmatism; Game-Based Learning
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-F 10:20-11:20 or by appt Kakaotalk ID 7449716490 Password 2021 https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/7449716490?pwdWXpTTOHUMkdlQkcwV2p6RG9FUjdHQT09Office: ELABS 245A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8118
- Ramses Ortin-Soriano
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Applied Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Bilingualism; Multilingualism
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 225
- Email:
- Valerie Ortiz
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-R Avail 1:15-3:30 pm email for zoom meeting appt.Office: ELABS 266B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Regine Pellicer
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Socio-linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Writing Pedagogy
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-R 12:00-1:00 pm & by appt. anytimeOffice: ELABS 268A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8772
- Ana Peña-Oliva
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Spanish as a Heritage Language; Language Contact; Bilingualism; Language Acquisition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 12:00-2:00pm appt via zoom https://utrgv.zoom.us/j/81265200287?pwd=R04vdHVDZWVSQ31ROTVIVXRYeXlrZz09 (Cellular, MSM,Whats App)Office: BMAIN 1.518
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8884
- Brittany Ramirez-Carter
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Composition Studies, First Year Composition, Discourse and Literacy Studies
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8780
- Dr. Lyon Rathbun
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Teaching writing; History of Rhetoric; Using Rhetorical analysis to study cultural and political history
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BSABH 2.412
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7956
- Dr. Marshall Saenz
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: Mon& Tues 2:00-3:00 pm online zoomOffice: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 266A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Topacio Santivañez-Pool
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: First Year Writing; Composition Studies; Cultural Studies
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BSABH 2.408
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8840
- Karina Stiles-Cox
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Spanish
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BSABH 2.402
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8853
- Lupita Strong
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and Composition; First-Year Writing
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: M-R by appt. F 11:00-12:00 pmOffice: ELABS 345A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8122
- Dr. Sarah Warren-Riley
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Technical Communication, Rhetoric & Composition
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: 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
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: BSABH 2.406
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7713
- Xin Zhang
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Linguistics; Teaching Chinese as second language; China Culture and Literature
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.Office: ELABS 245A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2375
Part-Time Faculty
- María Carmona-Alonso
- Director of the Translation and Interpreting Office / Part-Time Lecturer - Writing & Language Studies
Areas of Expertise: Translation and Interpreting
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: Not Teaching- Email:
- Luis Castaneda
- Part-Time Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Spanish
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching schedule.- Email:
- Dr. Alan Earhart
- Director of International Programs - International Programs & Partnerships / Part-Time Lecturer - Writing & Language Studies
Areas of Expertise: Italian
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching scheduleOffice: ESTAC 3.130
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2325
- 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
- Mercedes Torres
- Administrative Coordinator - B3 Institute / Part-Time Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Spanish
Summer II 2021 Office Hours: No teaching scheduleOffice: BLHSB 2.424
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7829
Graduate Teaching Assistants
- No Scheduled Teaching Assistants for Summer I 2021
- 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