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dora ramirez-dhoore Degrees PhD, in Ethnic Literature, MA, in English Literature, |
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Research Interests Dora’s Research engages issues of production and consumption of texts tied to global and transitional perspectives of audience. This research incorporates ideas of nation-building, the defining of sovereignty, and the internationalization of socio-political global affects. As a mestiza working from the interstices, my work and professional service to the community focuses on theories that are considered to be coming from the margins. With the margin or border (physically and theoretically) as the center, my scholarship focuses on American ethnic literature—social, political, economic, and more. My own research, teaching, and service includes Literature and Rhetoric. Most central to my own research is the idea of bringing textual knowledge, literacy, and the power attached to those ways of knowing to underrepresented populations. My research interrogates the relationships between textual production and how and how our global systems fashion citizens to consume those words and images. (Ethnic American Literature, American Literature, Chicana/o Studies, Rhetoric and Historiography, Transnational Feminisms, Women and Gender studies, Border Studies, Rhetoric and Literacy Studies) |
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Recent Publications “The Cyberboderland: Surfing the Web for Xicanidad." Chicana/Latina Studies, the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras Y Cambios Social. 2005 “Discovering a ‘Proper Pedagogy’: The Geography of Writing at UTPA." Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. 2007. |
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Courses Frequently Taught English 275: Intro to Lit. Studies English 278: Survey of American Literature: Civil War to Present English 213: African American Literature English 387: Twentieth Century American Fiction Special Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Ethnic Literature |
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Teaching Philosophy My teaching pedagogy rests on the premise that the narratives around us construct our imaginations and our realities. My role as facilitator is to introduce students to a world of stories that help shape the rhetorical, perceptual, and ethical environment we live in and which meets up with the classroom. With this in mind, I as that students look beyond the |
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