- Dr. Pamela Anderson-Mejías
- Professor / Senior Associate Dean & Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Areas of Expertise: Applied & sociolinguistics; Online learning, LMLS
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 242
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3424
Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Affiliated Faculty
Faculty
- Daniella Arredondo
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 9:00am-11:00am; Tue/Thurs 9:00am-12:30pm; Friday: By appointment online.
Office:
- Email:
- Crystal Bazaldua
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration, Teacher Professional Development, Assessment, Multimodality, Rhetorical Writing.
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 8:20am-9:20am; Tue 9:30am-10:35am & 12:30pm-1:45pm; Thurs 9:30am-10:45am.
Office: ELABS 245
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8101
- Caleb Camacho
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Composition Studies; First-year Writing; American Transcendentalism; Creative Writing; Historical Fiction; Screenwriting & the Historical Film
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:00pm-4:30pm in ELABS 269-A; and Tue/Thurs 2:00pm-3:00pm in Brownsville.Office: ELABS 269A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. José Luis Cano
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Immigration enforcement; Border rhetorics; Photography
Office: BSABH 2.408
- Email:
- Phone:
- 956-882-8840
- Dr. Danira Cantu
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Screenwriting/Historical Film, composition & Rhetoric
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:50pm-3:20pm; Tue/Thurs 12:20pm-1:50pm.Office: BSABH 2.416
- Email:
- Kristina Carpio
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office:
- Email:
- Sebastian Castillo
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Dual Enrolment; Argumentative Writing; Ethics
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:30pm-2:00pm; Tue/Thurs 1:00pm-2:00pm; Friday Online by appointment.Office: ELABS 245A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8118
- Dr. Alyssa Cavazos
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Writing Studies; Translingual Writing and Pedagogies; Teacher Preparation; Writing Across Communities; Teaching and Learning Practices in Higher Education
Office: ELABS 270A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8779
- Gabriela Cavazos
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours:
Office: BSABH 2.201
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8246
- Dr. Colin Charlton
- Professor / Department Chair
Areas of Expertise: Writing Pedagogy; Writing Program Administration; Teacher Professional Development; Assessment; Multimodality
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Julio Ciller
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office:
- Email:
- Dr. Katherine Christoffersen
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; bilingualism; language and identity; conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Tues 11:00am-12:00pm and Online by appointment. Please email to verify office location for office hours.Office: ELABS 226
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8102
- Dr. José Dávila-Montes
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Translation Studies; Cross-cultural Studies; Compared Rhetoric
Office: BMAIN 1.526- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8215
- Thomas De La Cruz
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Writing studies, and Code-Switching
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:30pm-1:30pm; Tues 9:00am-9:30am & 12:15pm-1:15pm; Thur 9:00am-9:30am.
Office: 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 2024 Office Hours: Tue/Thurs 8:00am-9:00am; Wed 9:00am-2:00pm and Online by appointment.Office: ELABS 266B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Dr. Sheila Dooley
- Associate Professor / Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Areas of Expertise: Linguistics, typology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition
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
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:00am-12:20pm; Tue/Thurs by appointment.
Office: ELABS 241- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3424
- Jake Escamilla
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office Hours: Fri 12:00pm-5:00pmOffice:
- Email:
- Marianita Escamilla
- Senior Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Literary Nonfiction; Service Leaning; Nonprofits; Popular Culture
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 8:00am-9:15am; Tue/Thurs 9:30am-11:45am; Online by appointment.Office: 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 2024 Office Hours: Mon 3:00pm-5:00pm and online by appointment.Office: ELABS 266B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8120
- Dr. John Foreman
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Theoretical linguistics; syntax; documenting endangered languages; indigenous languages of the Americas; Zapotec
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Tues 9:00am-9:30am & 2:30pm-3:30pm; Thurs 9:00am-9:30am & 4:00pm-5:00pm.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
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30pm-5:30pm.Office: 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 2024 Office Hours: Tues 9:00 am-12:00pm or by appointment.Office: BMAIN 1.528
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7450
- Ayla Galvan
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: First-year Writing, Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 9:30am-12:00pm and online by appointment.
Office: ELABS 207
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Bonnie Garcia
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Composition Pedagogy; Gamification; Discourse Analysis
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:00pm-3:00pm; Tue/Thurs 10:00am-12:00pm via Zoom; Friday Online by appointment.Office: ELABS 271
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3335
- Cynthia Garza
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: First-year Writing, Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Friday 10:00am-3:00pm.
Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dennis Garza
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:15pm-2:00pm.Office: BSABH 2.202
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8246
- Elizabeth Garza
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: Linguistics
Fall 2024 Office Hours:
Office: ELABS 268
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Karissa Garza
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: First-year Writing, Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Tue/Thurs 9:30am-12:30pm; Friday by appointment.
Office: ELABS 245A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2374
- Dr. Caleb Gonzalez
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Wed 12:30pm-2:00pm in Brownsville; Thurs 4:00pm-5:30pm in Edinburg; Friday by appointment.Office:
- Email:
- Dr. Gabriel González Núñez
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Translation & interpreting; Legal translation; Court interpreting; Translation policy
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon-Fri by appointment online.Office: BMAIN 1.520
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7658
- Joshua Gray
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing - Fiction
Office Hours: Mon-Thur 8:00am-9:00am.
Office: ELABS 270B- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8779
- Eduardo Guerra
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:00pm-2:00pm; Online by appointmentOffice:
- Email:
- Tomas Guerrero
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Metacognitive Studies; Practical application of theory (Praxis)
Office Hours: Tues 1:30pm-3:30pm; Thurs 12:30pm-3:30pm.
Office: ELABS 268B- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8773
- 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 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:00am-12:00; Tue/Thurs 2:00pm-3:00pm; Online by appointment.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
Office Hours: Wed & Fri 2:00pm-6:00pm by online appointment.
Office: ELABS 205A- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8771
- Pamela Herring
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition, Environmental Studies
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: BSABH 2.410
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-8884
- Stefanie Herweck
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Environmental Studies
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:00pm-4:20pm ELABS 245; Tue/Thurs 3:00pm-4:20pm online via appointment.Office: ELABS 245
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2374
- Jasmine Hinojosa
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon 11:00am-1:00pm & 5:00pm-6:00pm in ELABS 268; Thurs 2:00pm-4:00pm in BSABH 2.416.Office: ELABS 268
- Email:
- Dr. Andrew Hollinger
- Assistant Professor
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
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 9:30am-10:45am aby online by appointment.Office: ELABS 266
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8781
- Danyal Howard
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon, Wed & Fri by appointment only.
Office: ELABS 329- Email:
- Cynthia Lopez Guerrero
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Observing and discussing freshmen learning and writing habits as well as teacher pedagogies and practices.
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Tue/Thurs 1:00pm-3:00pm via Zoom.Office: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8975
- Jose Lujan
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: Writing Studies and First-year Writing
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:15pm-4:15pm; Tue/Thurs 12:15pm-1:15pm; Fri online by appointment.
Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Christian Martínez
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration, Teacher Professional Development, Assessment, Multimodality.
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Mark Martínez
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:45pm-1:45pm
Office: BSABH 2.201
- Email:
- Charles McGregor
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Digital Rhetoric; Creative Writing; Queer Studies; Composition: First-Year Writing; Social Media
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:30pm-1:30pm; Tue 3:00pm-5:00pm.Office: ELABS 270B
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8789
- Dr. Randall Monty
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Critical Discourse Studies; Writing Center Studies; Border Studies; Technical Communication
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon 12:00pm-2:00pm in the BINAB common area; Tue, Thur and Fri online by appointment only; Wed 3:15pm-4:15pm
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
Fall 2024 Office Hours:
Office: ELABS 208- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-7384
- Dr. John Newman
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: English historical linguistics; English dialectal variation
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Tue/Thurs 10:00am-11:00am & 12:30pm-2:30pm
Office: BSABH 2.404- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7020
- Dr. Mark Noe
- Professor
Areas of Expertise: Rhetorical Theory; Pragmatism; Game-Based Learning
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 10:00am-12:00pm
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 2024 Office Hours: Mon-Thur 10:00am-10:40am;Office: ELABS 245A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8118
- Ramsés Ortín-Soriano
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Applied Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Bilingualism; Multilingualism
Office: ELABS 225- Email:
- Valerie Ortiz
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Office: ELABS 266B- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Regine Pellicer
- Lecturer III
Areas of Expertise: Socio-linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Writing Pedagogy
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 268A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8772
- Brittany Ramirez-Carter
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Composition Studies, First Year Composition, Discourse and Literacy Studies
Office: ELABS 269- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8780
- Dra. Alejandra I. Ramírez
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise : Mexican American and Mexican Indigenous community literacies, decolonial research methods in rhetoric & composition studies, muralism and visual arts, sensual rhetorics, transfeminisms/transnationalism, Anzaldúan borderland pedagogies, Chicana and Latina studies.
Office : BSABH 2.214
Website: https://www.mala-academica.com
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7956
- Blanca Rocha
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: 1301 Rhetoric and Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Marshall Saenz
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric & Composition
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: 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
Office: ELABS 266A- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8782
- Topacio Santivañez-Pool
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: First Year Writing; Composition Studies; Cultural Studies
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 269
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8780
- Alyssa Segura
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise: Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration, Teacher Professional Development, Assessment, Multimodality.
Fall 2024 Office Hours:
Office: BSABH 2.408
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956)-882-8846
- Lupita Strong
- Lecturer II
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and Composition; First-Year Writing
Fall 2024 Office Hours: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 2024 Office Hours:Office: ELABS 345A
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-8122
- Naomi Vela
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Fall 2024 Office Hours:Office:
- Email:
- Silvia Vera-Huesca
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: Reading, Writing, Acting, Theatre, Film
Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Dr. Sarah Warren-Riley
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Technical Communication, Rhetoric & Composition
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
Office: BSABH 2.406
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 882-7713
- Wei (Aviva) Xue
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Email:
- Sam Zapata
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Email:
Part-Time Faculty
- Francisco Faticati
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise:
Office:
- Dr. Yuanqing Li
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Zhen Li
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Jacquelyn Medina
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Ana Mendoza
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Kymberly Morquecho
- Lecturer I
Areas of Expertise:
Office:
- Kathryn O'Neil
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise:
Office:
- Jesus Reyna
- Lecturer I
Area of Expertise: Creative Writing, Mexican-American Studies, Writing Studies
Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
- Jose Salinas
- Part Time Lecturer
Area of Expertise: Writing and Literacy Studies
Office: ELABS 329
- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-3441
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.
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
Department of Literatures & Cultural Studies
Office: ELABS 345B- Email:
- Phone:
- (956) 665-2106