Memoria: Essays in Honor of Victor Villanueva

Celebrate the profound impact of Victor Villanueva’s scholarship, teaching, and mentorship in the field of rhetoric and composition with this remarkable collection. Engaging both emerging and established scholars, this book explores the legacy of Villanueva’s contributions.

Victor Villanueva is Regents Professor Emeritus, a former director of comp, director of a university-wide writing program, director of an American Studies program, English department chair (twice!), former editor of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric monograph series of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, former head of that organization, its Exemplar, and Rhetorician of the Year.

From the politics of language, literacy, and education to Latinx rhetoric, colonialism, and racism, each chapter dives deeply into relevant themes upon which Villanueva has left his mark, and into the significance of Villanueva’s work from the perspectives of each contributor. Grouped into three sections-Memoria of Rhetoric, Memoria of Mentoring, and Memoria of Relations-the essays in this book invite the reader to sit alongside one of the field’s pioneers and to experience the power of his influence on the discipline. CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series 

Asao B. Inoue is a professor of rhetoric and composition in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University, where he teaches writing, composition, and assessment theory courses. He has published numerous books and articles on antiracist writing assessment, and won numerous national awards for his scholarship. He was the 2019 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Wendy Olson is an associate professor of English at Washington State University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and composition. She serves as the director of composition and writing assessment on the Vancouver campus. She has published on basic writing and composition pedagogy, writing program administration, writing in the disciplines, and feminist rhetorics.

Siskanna Naynaha is an associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She serves as the director of Writing Across the Curriculum, where she facilitates workshops that focus on engaging faculty in antiracist writing pedagogy to improve justice and equity in the teaching of writing in all disciplines. She has published on reading and writing across the curriculum, writing program administration, and Latinx students in US higher education.