Raymond D. Rosas

Professional Bio

Raymond D. Rosas is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and writing studies. His major academic interests include critical literacy studies, genre systems theory, and the rhetoric of health and medicine. An advocate of the teacher-scholar model of work in the academy, he believes one's research and pedagogical commitments should function symbiotically toward innovation and professional excellence. In 2019, he received an excellence in teaching award from Penn State's program in writing and rhetoric. His dissertation work examines the politics of writing instruction, especially as they pertain to African American and Latinx students in predominantly white institutions.

Publications:  

Rosas, Ray, and Cheryl Glenn. “Renewing Commitments to Minoritized Writers.” Composition Studies, vol. 50, n.1, 2022, pp. 127-134.

Rosas, Ray. “Encountering Lives on the Boundary: Mike Rose as Methodologist for Centering Minoritized Writers.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 45, no. 2, 2022, pp. 44-47.

Rosas, Raymond D. “From Junkies to Victims: The Racial Projects of the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic.” Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. Set to appear vol. 6, no. 1.

Rosas, Raymond D. “Literacy and Disciplinarity: Vignettes of Struggle and Identification.” Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline, edited by Lynn C. Lewis (accepted).