Santo Domingo as he appeared in his mother's dream before his birth
Talavera tile at the Convento de Santa Rosa
Puebla, Mexico
- an example of Mexican technologies of imagery -

Susan Romano
Assistant Professor of English
University of New Mexico
sromano@unm.edu

Academic Life
My professional training is in rhetoric and composition (Ph.D. 1996 University of Texas at Austin), with emphasis on teaching writing in networked environments. Currently I teach rhetoric and writing courses in the professional writing strand of UNM English.

I've published articles about gender and ethnicity in online environments, about teaching writing in early networked writing classrooms, about women and technology, about writing program administration, and about the Internet literacies of middle school children studying in northern Mexico. A couple of my publications are available on line: The Egalitarianism Narrative: Whose Story, Which Yardstick? and Writerly Readers: Close Readings of Close Relationships.

My current research inquires into a centuries-long tradition of rhetorical practice and writing instruction in Mexico: the religious and secular educational initiatives, the technologies of their transmission north, and their permutations and sedimentation in the southwest borderlands.

This year I'm working on a book project with Virginia Anderson, a collection of essays examining the future of doctoral education in rhetoric and composition: How We Dream Now: Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition. Last year's book project is now in print: Writing in an Electronic World (ABLongman 2001) with Beth Kolko and Alison Regan. You can read my 1998 book, co-edited with Janet Swaffar, Katherine Arens, and Phillip Markley, on line: Language Learning Online.

Links to Other Publications (underway and under construction)
Print Publications
Work in Progress
Dissertation: Commited to Writing: A History of Writing in Early Networked Classrooms

Turtles, Talavera, and Traveling Exhibits
The Turtles
The Talavera
Current Exhibits: Rosie and Robbie's Wedding