Composition: History & Theory: 1990 - 1999
Victor Villanueva
Description
Victor Villanueva was born in Brooklyn. A high school dropout of Puerto Rican descent, he spent seven years in the military before entering community college, eventually earning his PhD from the University of Washington. He is currently a Regents Professor at Washington State University, where he has also worked as an Equal Opportunity Program Director, Director of Composition, Director of the Program in American Studies, and Associate Dean. He is the author of Boot Straps: From an American Academic of Color, editor of Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader, and co-editor of Latino/a Discourses, Language Diversity in the Classroom, and Included in English Studies. His awards include the National Council of Teachers of English Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award, and the Young Rhetoricians Conference’s “Rhetorician of the Year” for 1999. Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 1999-2000, his research interests include racism, economics, and language. According to the Washington State University English department website, Villanueva “once wrote that he was a professor, a husband, a father, and a happy man. All that remains true.”
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11/03/09