Graduate Student Instructors

Brian Rivera
  • Pronouns he/him
  • Title
    • PhD Student
    • Graduate Student Instructor
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies, Writing Program, John R. Lewis College
  • Email
  • Office Hours Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 pm (Zoom)
  • Mail Stop Literature Department
  • Courses JRLC 1: Academic Literacy & Ethos- Social Justice and Community, Writing 2: Rhetoric & Inquiry

Research Interests

20th/21st Century Latin American, Mexican & Latine Literatures and Cultures, Liquid Humanities, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities: Animal Studies. 

Biography, Education and Training

Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); UCLA

M.A. English; California State University, Northridge

B.A. English Subject Matter & Teaching English as a Second Language Minor; California State University, Northridge

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

2023 Recipient, The Humanities Institute Summer Pathways Fellowship

2022 Participant, Graduate Student Success Program

2023 Participant, GANAS Doctoral Summer Bridge Program

2022 Fellow, Eugene V. Cota Robles Fellowship

2022 Fellow, Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program

Teaching Interests

Courses Taught

University of California, Santa Cruz

JRLC 1: Academic Literacy and Ethos- Social Justice and Community

Writing 2: Rhetoric & Inquiry

 

California State University, Northridge

English 114B: Approaches to University Writing B

English 115: Approaches to University Writing

ESL Courses:

University Bridge Reading 

Advanced Listening & Speaking

Bussiness English