Associate Professor, University of California at Davis

PhD, Syracuse University, 2010, M.A., English, Loyola Marymount University, 2005. B.A., English and Anthropology, University of San Diego, 2001.

Research Interests: Writing assessment, literacy, intersections of rhetoric and literacy, history of research methods, teacher training, Chicana rhetorics, educational policy, and composition theory and history.

Dissertation Title: Activists, Immigrant, Citizens: Grounding Rhetorical Conceptions of Literacy