Victor Villanueva
Biography
Victor Villanueva, a Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican high school dropout, entered community college after the military (1968-1975), earning his Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington (with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition Studies) ten years later. He is currently a Regents Professor at Washington State University where he has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professorship in Liberal Arts. He has worked as an Equal Opportunity Program Director, Writing Project Director, a Director of Composition, Department Chair, Director of the Program in American Studies, and Associate Dean. He chaired the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 1999-2000 and was the chair of its annual meeting in 1998. He was declared the 2009 Exemplar for the Conference on College Composition and Communications and the 2008 recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award. The Young Rhetoricians Conference declared him “Rhetorician of the Year” for 1999. As well, Dr. Villanueva is the winner the 1995 NCTE David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship in English and the Conference on English Education’s Richard A. Meade Award for Distinguished Research in English Education. Both awards were for Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color. He is the editor of NCTE’s Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader (currently in its second edition), and is the co-editor of Latino/a Discourses (2004), Language Diversity in the Classroom (2003), and Included in English Studies (2002). He has edited a special edition of College English and has co-edited another, has three other books in various stages of development, has published 45 articles, book chapters, or reviews, many of which have been anthologized, and has delivered over 100 presentations, nearly 40 of which have been keynote addresses, including a distinguished Visiting professorship address. His current projects concern the rhetorics of the indigenous of the Caribbean and what those ways with words can tell us about current latinos and latinas in college composition classrooms, and the connections among economics, racism, and language. He once wrote that he was a professor, a husband, a father, and a happy man. All that remains true.
Research Interests
Villanueva's research concerns the interconnectedness among rhetoric (in its broadest sense), ideology, and racism, and their manifestation in literacy and literacy practices. To this end, his research takes him through classical and contemporary rhetoric, cultural studies, world-systems theory (as an approach to political economy), critical race theories, and composition studies (particularly contemporary theory). His current projects concern the rhetorics of the indigenous of the Carribbean and what those ways with words can tell us about current latinos and latinas in college composition classrooms.
Graduate Teaching Interests
Villanueva's research interests are reflected in his graduate teaching: composition theory, the rhetorics of political economy, the rhetorics of racism, and contemporary rhetorical theory. Villanueva finds his greatest graduate teaching to be the kind of one-on-one work involved in advising graduate students through MAs and PhDs.
Contact
- Avery Hall 499,
- 335-2680
- victorv@wsu.edu
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