Associate Professor

Ruth Osorio

3045 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Research Interests

Rhetoric, disability studies, feminist historiography, social movements, writing pedagogy

Articles

Osorio, R., Hutchison, A., Primeau, S., Ubbesen, M. and Champoux-Crowley, A. (2021). The Laborious Reality vs. the Imagined Ideal of Graduate Student Instructors of Writing. WPA.
Osorio, R. (2021). Constellating with our Foremothers: Stories of Mothers Making Space in Rhetoric and Composition. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space.
Osorio, R. and Hubrig, A. (2020). Enacting a Culture of Access in Our Conference Spaces. College Composition and Communication.
Osorio, R. (2020). I Am #ActuallyAutistic, Hear Me Tweet: The Autist-Topoi of Autistic Activists on Twitter. enculturation (31).
Osorio, R. (2017). Embodying Truth: Sylvia Rivera鈥檚 Delivery of Parrhesia at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally. Rhetoric Review 36 (2).

Book Chapters

Osorio, R., Hutchison, A. and Fiscus, J. (2021). Braiding Stories, Taking Action: A Narrative of Graduate Worker-Led Change Work Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices University of Colorado Press.
Osorio, R. (2020). A Disability-as-Insight Approach to Multimodal Assessment Improving Outcomes: Disciplinary Writing, Local Assessment, and the Aim of Fairness MLA.
  • 2020: Disability in College Composition Travel Award. , CCCC
  • 2020: Kate Broderick Faculty Award for Excellence in Promoting Educational Accessibility, 桃花社区视频 Dominion University
  • 2019: Summer Research Grant, 桃花社区视频 College of Arts and Letters
  • 2017: Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland Graduate School
  • 2017: James A. Robinson Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Maryland English Department
  • 2017: Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Travel Award, Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
  • 2016: All-S.T.A.R. (Scholarship, Teaching, Administration, Research) Fellowship, University of Maryland Graduate School