Job Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Humanities 2102
Office Hours: Tu.-Th: 10:30 – 12:00
Bio:
Ana Cortés Lagos is a Chilean writing and rhetoric scholar specializing in transnational writing studies and rhetoric of science. She holds a PhD in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University and BA in Literature and Linguistics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research interests include WAC/WID, rhetoric of science, rhetoric of health sciences and medicine, and transnational writing studies. Her current research deals with the writing and language practices in a clinical vaccine research center located in Chile, working internationally in a changing global landscape. Her most recent publications include “Mirroring Lautaro’s Gesture: Toward a Canon in Latin American Writing Studies” (College English) and the co-authored paper “Do we train teachers on writing? Writing opportunities across the curriculum in elementary teacher education programs” (Calidad en la Educación). She is currently co-editor of the Latin American section of the WAC Clearinghouse International Exchange in the Study of Writing book series, and editor of English texts for RLEE Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura.