bio

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Writing and Associate Director of First Year Composition at Texas Woman’s University. I completed my PhD at University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2022. I teach courses in first year composition, visual rhetoric, digital rhetoric and rhetorical theory. My research examines rhetorical productions of coloniality/modernity, Western monologics, race and Americanity in ubiquitous settler archives. My current project focuses on networks of settler tourism postcards in San Antonio, Texas, at the turn of the 20th century, tracing across time-space cooperation between dominant imperial nations to mass-(re)produce themselves and impose their structural patterns of power.

The driving questions of my work are: How do stories become infrastructure? How can we tell different stories to dismantle infrastructures of extraction and mass-sacrifice?

My dissertation received the 2022 Dissertation Award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric and an honorable mention from the Rhetoric Society of America. My first article received the RSA Charles Kneupper Award for 2023. My research, teaching, and engagement in public humanities are rooted in my family’s experiences in land called San Antonio and my time working in the archives of the San Antonio Public Library. I currently live in Denton, Texas with my daughter, partner, two dogs, and a cat. Our favorite things are pickle juice snowcones, camping, musical theatre, and upcyling.

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Photo Credit: Holland-Rhodes Photography