Damián P Baca
- Professor, Mexican American Studies
- Associate Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 626-0779
- CESAR E CHAVEZ, Rm. 208
- TUCSON, AZ 85721-0023
- damian@arizona.edu
Awards
- HSI Fellow
- Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives, Spring 2021
- UArizona Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives, Fall 2020
- Assessing and Mapping the Impact of Decoloniality on Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication Studies
- Convention on College Composition and Communication Research Initiative Grant (CCCC), Spring 2020
- CCCC Outstanding Book Award
- Convention on College Composition and Communication, Spring 2020
- Writer-in-Residence Summer Fellowship
- National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing, Summer 2018
- National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing (NCERW), Fall 2017
- Outstanding Faculty for Graduate and Professional Students
- University of Arizona, Graduate and Professional Student Council, Spring 2018 (Award Finalist)
- Academic Leadership Institute
- Fall 2016
- M. Ruth Marino Chair
- Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College), Summer 2016
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Senior Capstone
MAS 498 (Spring 2025) -
Social Justice Movements
ENGL 150B2 (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
MAS 920 (Fall 2024) -
Social Justice Movements
ENGL 150B2 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Dissertation
MAS 920 (Spring 2024) -
Senior Capstone
MAS 498 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2023) -
Dissertation
MAS 920 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Advanced Composition
ENGL 306 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
MAS 920 (Spring 2023) -
Senior Capstone
MAS 498 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2022) -
Mexican American Culture
ANTH 319 (Fall 2022) -
Mexican American Culture
LAS 319 (Fall 2022) -
Mexican American Culture
MAS 319 (Fall 2022) -
Studies in Rhetoric+Comp
ENGL 696E (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Advanced Composition
ENGL 306 (Spring 2022) -
Culture, Community & Identity
MAS 265 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2021) -
Mexican American Culture
MAS 319 (Fall 2021) -
Topics In Am Literature
ENGL 486 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2021) -
Internship
MAS 593 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2020) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2020) -
Mexican American Culture
ANTH 319 (Fall 2020) -
Mexican American Culture
LAS 319 (Fall 2020) -
Mexican American Culture
MAS 319 (Fall 2020) -
Topics In Am Literature
ENGL 486 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2020) -
Mex-Am Lit In English
ENGL 443 (Spring 2020) -
Studies in Rhetoric+Comp
ENGL 696E (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2019) -
Technical Writing
ENGL 308 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2018) -
Internship
ENGL 593 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2018) -
Professional Studies
ENGL 595A (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2017) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2017) -
Professional Studies
ENGL 595A (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2017) -
Professional Studies
ENGL 595A (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Fall 2016) -
Independent Study
ENGL 499 (Fall 2016) -
Independent Study
ENGL 599 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Dissertation
ENGL 920 (Spring 2016) -
Professional Studies
ENGL 595A (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Baca, D. P. (2018). Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference. Routledge (Landmark Essays series).More infoThis edited collection makes visible the creation of difference by tracing the ways in which difference has come to be represented, critiqued, and challenged in rhetoric and composition studies. The use of ‘rhetorics’ signals something more than simply the grammatical plural. It signals the equalizing of knowledges, language strategies, and innovations that contribute to diverse understandings of rhetorical theory and practice.
- Baca, D. P. (2019). Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE/CCCC Press, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) Series.More infoContract signed September, 2018. Forthcoming, March 2019 with CCCC/SWR.
- Baca, D. P. (2018). Rhetorics of Difference. New York: Routledge.More infoLandmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference challenges the Eurocentric perspective from which the field of rhetoric is traditionally viewed. Taking a step beyond the creation of alternative rhetorics that maintain the centrality of the European and Greco-Roman tradition, this volume argues on behalf of pluriversal rhetorics that coexist as equally important on their own terms. A timely addition to the respected Landmark Essays series, it will be invaluable to students of history of rhetoric, literacy, composition, and writing studies.
- Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2009). Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Baca, D. (2008). Mestiz@ scripts, digital migrations, and the territories of writing. Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapters
- Baca, D. P. (2020). Doing Rhetoric Elsewhere: Chicanx Indigeneities, Colonial Peripheries, and the Underside of Written Communication. In Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts. Routledge.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). On Epistemic Disobedience, Confronting Coloniality, and Decolonizing the Visual: An Interview with Damián Baca. In Doing Digital Visual Studies: One Image, Multiple Methodologies(pp n.p.). Computers and Composition Digital Press.
- Baca, D. P. (2020). Doing Rhetoric Elsewhere: Chicanx Indigeneities, Colonial Peripheries, and the Underside of Written Communication. In The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts(pp 382-385). Routledge.
- Baca, D. P. (2019). Hopes and Visions: The Possibility of De-Colonial Options. In Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions.(p. 49). CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric.More infoIntroduction to the book and analysis of the previous two decades of research on colonial power in theory and teaching in rhetoric and composition studies.
- Baca, D. P. (2019). Writing the Digital Codex: Non/Alphabetic, De/Colonial, Network/ed. In Digital Afterlives: Futures of Indigenous Archives(p. 6). Dartmouth College Press.
- Baca, D. P. (2018). Introduction. In Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference(p. 12). New York: Routledge.
Journals/Publications
- Baca, D. P. (2016). Special Edition: "Decolonial Rhetorics, Compositions, and Classroom Agendas". Reflections, Proposal: 9 pages.
- Baca, D. P., & Garcia, R. (2020). Hopes for Concrete Actions and Collective Flourishing in the Face of COVID-19. Literacy & NCTE Blog, National Council of Teachers of English., 1.
- Baca, D. P. (2017). Decolonial Options and Writing Studies. Composition Studies, 45(2), 4.
- Gries, L., Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2010). Practicing Methods in Ancient Cultural Rhetorics: Uncovering Rhetorical Action in Moche Burial Rituals. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, 89--116.
- Baca, D. (2009). Rethinking composition, five hundred years later. JAC, 229--242.
- Baca, D. (2009). Rhetoric, Interrupted: La Malinche and Nepantlisma. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, 143--51.
- Baca, D. (2009). The Chicano codex: Writing against historical and pedagogical colonization. College English, 564--583.
- Baca, D. (2009). te-ixtli: The “Other Face” of the Americas. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, 1.
- Arnold, H., & Baca, D. (2007). In chapter one, Nakamura discusses “digital divides”, a theory about access to the internet by minority groups. She speaks on a sensitive subject, saying that Asians are the “model minorities” with more access to and knowledge about the internet; that African.
- Baca, D. (2006). Border insurrections: How IndoHispano rhetorics revise dominant narratives of assimilation.
- Baca, D., & Murray, J. (2002). Image Writing \& Non-Discursive Symbolization: The Limitations of Alphacentric Historiographies.
Presentations
- Baca, D. P. (2020, March). Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Indigenous / Latinx / African American / Asian-Asian American Dialogues. Convention on College Composition and Communication. canceled: College Composition and Communication.
- Baca, D. P. (2020, May). Hosting Settlers: Decolonial and Indigenous Rhetorics of First Contact. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. canceled: Rhetoric Society of America.
- Baca, D. P. (2020, May). Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Decolonial Praxis Across Communication and Composition. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. canceled: Rhetoric Society of America.
- Baca, D. P. (2020, May). Rhetorics of Presence: Environmental Resistance and Resilience. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. canceled: Rhetoric Society of America.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Coalition for Community Writing Mentorship. Convention on College Composition and Communication.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Community Writing Workshop. University of New Mexico, Southwest Environmental Education Cooperative.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Decolonizing Language in the Classroom. Bread Loaf Teachers Network. Bread Loaf School of English.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Histories of Rhetoric Elsewhere and Otherwise. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Job Market Strategies. Coalition for Community Writing.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Indigenous / Latinx / African American / Asian-Asian American Dialogues. Convention on College Composition and Communication.
- Baca, D. P. (2021). Rhetorical Sovereignty in Action: Community Literacies By and For Indigenous Stakeholders. Conference on Community Writing.
- Baca, D. P. (2020, November). Creating Dialogue across Generations of Scholars: Revolutionary Scholarship for and with Latinx Students, Families, and Communities. National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. online: National Council for Teachers of English.
- Baca, D. P. (2018, March). Latinx Futures: A Look at Emerging Latinx Research and Scholars. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO: NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus.
- Baca, D. P. (2018, March). Roots, Relationships, and Reciprocity: Food Literacies and Environmental Justice in Community Writing. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO.
- Baca, D. P. (2018, May). The Invention of Difference: Reimagining Rhetorics and Foundations for Rhetorical Understanding.”. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN.
- Baca, D. P. (2018, November). Creating Dialogue across Generations of Scholars: Revolutionary Scholarship for and with Latinx Students, Families and Communities. National Council for Teachers of English. Houston Texas: NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus.
- Baca, D. P. (2018, November). The Role of Stories in Amplifying Students’ Voices: Café y El Atole. National Council for Teachers of English.. Houston Texas: Bread Loaf School of English.
- Baca, D. P. (2018, October). Rural Literacies, Post-Industrial Countrysides/Nuestras Voces: Speaking out for Equity and Justice. New Mexico Council for Teachers of English. Albuquerque, NM.
- Baca, D. P. (2017, July). Transculturación, new mestiza consciousness, and Restitutions of Subaltern Invention. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. Taos, NM.
- Baca, D. P. (2017, March). Cultivating and Mobilizing Social Justice Work in CCCC. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR.
- Baca, D. P. (2017, March). Writing Before and Beyond Visible Speech: Tlacuilolitztli/Spreading Color on Hard Surfaces. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR.
- Baca, D. P. (2017, November). But Is That Writing?: Teaching Writing Before and Beyond the Alphabet. NCTE. St. Louis, MO: Bread Loaf School of English.
- Baca, D. P. (2017, November). Creating Dialogue Across Generations of Scholars: Revolutionary Scholarship for and with Latinx Students, Families and Communities. NCTE. St. Louis, MO: NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus.
- Baca, D. P. (2017, November). Navajo Voices in Action: Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Youth Leaders. NCTE. St. Louis, MO: Navajo Nation, Bread Loaf School of English.
- Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Advocating for Glocal Citizenship in K-16 English Classrooms. National Council for Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA.
- Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Bread Loaf International Peace Literacy Network. National Council for Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA: Bread Loaf School of English and Bread Loaf Teachers Network.
- Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Decolonizing English Literacy Practices in and out of the Classroom. National Council for Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA.
- Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Writing the Digital Codex: Non/Alphabetic, De/Colonial, Network/ed. Indigenous Archives in a Digital Age: A Symposium Celebrating The Occom Circle. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH..
- Baca, D. P. (2016, Spring). Local/Regional Practices: Recovering, Translating, and Strategic Practices from Spaces and Contexts of Coloniality. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX.
- Baca, D. P. (2014, April). Third Space Chicana Feminism and Writing in Colonial Situations. Seaker Series co-sponsored by the Department of English, Gender & Women's Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.More infoInvited Presentation
- Baca, D. P. (2014, March). La Malinche/Malinalli and Rhetorical History. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN.
- Baca, D. P. (2014, May). Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX.More infoSupersession Roundtable
- Baca, D. P. (2014, May). Tlacuilolitzli/The Spreading of Color on Hard Surfaces: Living Painted Knowledge in Symbols and Stories. Native American Indigenous Studies Association. Austin, TX.
- Baca, D. P. (2014, November). Critical Spaces for Teaching, Learning, Building: Conversations about Multicultural Education. National Council for Teachers of English. Washington, D.C..
Others
- Baca, D. P. (2020, November). ’We’ve Got Your Back’: The Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Program Turns 20. Council Chronicle 30:2.
- Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2009, June). SPECIAL TOPIC: Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad Introduction.