Rachel Rodriguez

Staff
  • Director of the Writing Center

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Dr. Rachel Rodriguez earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville in 2021, her MA in English from the University of Maine, and her BA in English and Spanish from McDaniel College. She comes to 缅北强奸 with experience administering the writing centers at the University of Louisville and Chesapeake College. Her research interests include writing centers, composition pedagogy, translingualism, language difference, and basic writing. She has taught composition, basic writing, rhetoric, literature, business writing, and SAT test prep.

Publications:
鈥淓ngaging the Quiet Student: Digital Backchanneling in the Composition Classroom.鈥 Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 48, no. 3, 2021, pp. 354-62.  
鈥淭he Unique Affordances of Plainness in George Eliot鈥檚 Silas Marner and Middlemarch.鈥 George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 72, no. 1, 2020, pp. 34-54.
鈥淭ranslingual Approaches to Writing and Its Instruction.鈥 Co-authored with Bruce Horner, Emily Yuko Cousins, Jaclyn Hilberg, N. Claire Jackson, and Alex Way. WPA-CompPile Research Bibliography, No. 28, 2019.   

National Presentations:
鈥淨uestioning Our Reification of 鈥楽tandards鈥 in the Writing Classroom.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Virtual, April 7, 2021. 
鈥淪ustaining Community Literacy Efforts through a Rhetoric of Respect.鈥 National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Virtual, October 29, 2020.
鈥淭he Impact of the 鈥楾raveling Tutor鈥 Program on Campus Outreach and Tutor Development.鈥 International Writing Centers Association. Columbus, OH, October 18, 2019. 
鈥淲atching Our Words: A Corpus Analysis of Translingual Metaphors.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA, March 16th, 2019.
鈥淯sing the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing as a Tool to Inform First-Year Composition Pedagogy and Ensure College-Readiness in Secondary Schools.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO, March 23, 2012.