My award-winning teaching for the New Start Summer Bridge Program and my teaching in the LEAD Scholars program highlights my dedication to serving underrepresented student populations as faculty at Santa Clara University, which began during my graduate study at the University of Arizona. In addition to collaborating on the LEAD Scholars iPad pilot, I have taught courses such as Social Justice and Literacy, Writing about Culture and Literature, Digital Publishing and Writing Studies, as well as a Bilingual first-year composition course.

Santa Clara University

Critical Thinking and Writing 2, Bilingual

In this first year composition course, students speak and write in Spanish during their first quarter and in English during their second quarter in my course where we focus on issues of language, translingualism and multimodal composing. Below are some examples of student work:

“Spanglish: Abomination or Identity”

Introduction to Writing Studies and Digital Publication

This class asks us to think about the writing process, how writing has always been multimodal, and how digital logic affects reading and writing for the screen. In Writing Studies, composing written communication no longer singularly refers to alphabetic texts and the ‘technology’ of the essay. Additionally, to meet the demands of writing post-graduation, writing for specific audiences in specific contexts needs to be considered in translating alphabetic texts into the genres available in online writing environments such as blogs, instructional YouTube videos and podcasts.

An example of student work: