Theresa Donovan
native of New Hampshire, I earned a bachelor’s and master’s from la Universidad de Puerto Rico, becoming fluent in Spanish along the way. My time in PR helped to lay the groundwork for my current scholarship in issues of language, power, and race. My work has focused on how we negotiate issues of power, whether as language choice or racial identity. In addition to my dissertation, “Era[c]ing diversity: A critical rhetorical approach to race and the new citizen,” I have a forthcoming article (Dec. 2015), “Habits of whiteness:The rhetorics of racial categories and the expansion of the racial divide” in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. Over the past decade, I’ve had the opportunity to teach widely diverse courses from first-year composition, bilingual workplace writing and a doctoral-level course in ancient rhetorics.
My current position as the director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies—UndergraduateProgram (RWS-UP) has turned my attention to research in writing program administration, and peer review interactions. As part of the RWS-UP team, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring our graduate-student instructors as they begin their careers in teaching in the university.
When I’m not in El Paso, I’m spending time in my adoptive home, Naranjito, Puerto Rico.
UTEP Faculty Profile: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=70104&ID=ldonovan
Contact Information
Email: ldonovan@utep.edu
Phone: 915-747-5222
Hudspeth Hall 115
Personal Information
Ph.D., The University of Texas at El Paso
Director of RWS-Undergraduate Program, Senior Lecturer