Ph.D., Penn State (2023, English)
M.A., Penn State (2019, English)
B.A., University of Arizona (2017, English)
Ray Rosas is an assistant professor in the English department with expertise in writing studies and the rhetoric of health and medicine. He earned a PhD at the Pennsylvania State University and his publications have focused on Black and Latinx literacies, writing program administration, and the U.S. opioid epidemic. His work appears in WPA: Writing Program Administration, Composition Studies, and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. His book project entitled Claiming Writerly Agency: New Visions of Black and Latinx Excellence in Higher Education is under advance contract with Colorado State/Utah State University Press.
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
"Untold Pushbacks: Synthesizing Discourse-Based and Phenomenological Interviewing to Explore Tacit Knowledges of Black and Latinx Writers." Written Communication. Forthcoming.
“Literacy and Disciplinarity: Vignettes of Struggle and Identification.” Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline, edited by Lynn C. Lewis. Utah State UP, 2024, pp.182-194.
“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, vol. 6, no. 1, 2023, pp. 95-124.
“Renewing Commitments to Minoritized Writers.” (with Cheryl Glenn). Composition Studies, vol. 50, n.1, 2022, pp.127-134.
“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.