Intra-cirricular project gallery
This gallery is dedicated to the various in-class projects completed during my time as both an undergad and graduate student at UTEP. These projects do not necessarily reflect my research foci or my area of expertise. Instead, these projects demonstrate skills I hope to cultivate, as well as areas of study and methods of execution that I would like to further explore.
Dia de los Muertos Altar
Dia de los Muertos Altar
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
In partnership with UTEP Academic Technologies & the Smithsonian, the graduate students enrolled ENGL 5321, under the tutelage of Dr. Meredith Abarca, created and curated a virtual museum exhibit dedicated to Afro-Latinas/os and their cultural legacy, with an emphasis on their culinary contributions.
My exhibit, pictured here, is dedicated to Rachel Pringle, an Afro-Latina woman who purchased her freedom and legally ran a bordello, with the help of shrewd legal interpretation and food euphemisms.
In lieu of a traditional seminar paper, I curated an exhibit (not pictured) that focuses on rice, and its cultural and culinary significance to African, Latina/o and Afro-Latina/o communities.
To read more, visit inside.at.utep.edu.
This now defunct website was an initiative from former UTEP student and University Writing Center resident tutor, Elena Bitner. The Writing Help Online (WHO) was designed to give students and tutors
This now defunct website was an initiative from former UTEP student and University Writing Center resident tutor, Elena Bitner. The Writing Help Online (WHO) was designed to give students and tutors
Virtual Tutoring/Editing
I am grateful for having had the opportunity to be a university writing tutor. This helped me to realize a passion for service and teaching, and gave me the opportunity to brush up on the grammar rules that I had internalized by in grade-school.
I say I internalized these rules because I never gave much thought to the "why's" and "how's" of things like paralell sentence structure or nonrestrictive modifying clause until a student asks, and then watches me fumble for an analogy with which to my own writing process (and understanding of grammar rules) into words.
Writing quick definitions and examples of these rules, as well as hyperlinking helpful webpages proved useful, especially for online tutoring. Compared to something like Purdue's OWL, my own collection of grammar and composition rules is quite small, but it is something on which I still draw when editing for others or assessing my student's work.
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YouTube Shakespeare
In the Fall of 2011, UTEP's resident Shakespearian scholar, Dr. Ruben Espinosa, sought to explore various contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, tailored for a YouTube viewership. To gather empirical evidence, Dr. Espinosa created a group project for his undergraduates, in which a single scene or truncated play must be adapted to a modern context, while utilizing Shakespeare's original verbiage.
In the video (linked below), my group and I adapted Macbeth 4.1 to reflect the 2011 "Occupy" movement.