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RAMONA FERNANDEZ
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/353-2945 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
courses: WRA 125 Writing: American Ethnic & Racial Experience; WRA 195H Writing: Major Topics in American Thought (Honors Course)
Fernandez received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her teaching and research interests include cultural studies, gender and race, popular culture, women’s studies, semiotics, science fiction, and cultural literacy. She often teaches the Tier 1 course ATL 125: Writing: The American Ethnic and Racial Experience. Her Imagining Literacy: Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature addresses the ideological assumptions that underlie prevailing models of cultural literacy. Her continuing work cuts across disciplines, asking questions about literature, popular culture, race, gender, and the reconstruction of the human body by science and science fiction. She is associate editor of the on-line journal Rhizomes.
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