Dr. Cristina Devereaux Ramírez is a Professor and Program Director for the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) graduate program in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She received her doctoral degree in English with a focus in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2010. Prior to her graduate schoolwork, she taught middle and high school English Literature and Composition for 13 years with the El Paso Independent School District in Texas. Her current research focuses on archival and rhetorical recovery of Mexican and Mexican American women from the 19th and 20th centuries.Dr. Ramírez has published two feminist historical recovery books. Her first, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1887-1942 (University of Arizona Press, 2015), won the 2016 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Prize from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Her second, Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1875-1922 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019) was co-authored with Dr. Jessica Enoch of the University of Maryland and funded with a Research Initiative grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.Dr. Ramírez is also active in national and international academic coalitions. She currently serves as coordinating board member for the International Rhetoric Workshop, which is scheduled to hold a hybrid symposium in September 2021 at El Colegio de San Luis, and is a former secretary and active board member of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars. She is affiliate faculty of Latin American Studies, Mexican American, and Mexico Initiatives. Dr. Ramirez seeks to constructively collaborate with programs and organizations locally, nationally, and internationally to expand student’s working knowledge of how writing functions theoretically and practically in our everyday society.Research InterestsFeminist Writing Theory and Pedagogy / Histories of Rhetoric / Feminist Histories of Rhetoric, Archival Research / Historiography, Gender Studies / Mexican and Mexican American Studies / Professional Writing Pedagogies / Translation Theory and StudiesRead more about this authorRead less about this author