Graduate Student Directory

Brian Edwin Rivera
  • Pronouns he/him
  • Title
    • PhD Student
    • Graduate Student Instructor
    • Teaching Assistant
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Affiliations Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Latin American & Latino Studies, Writing Program, John R. Lewis College
  • Email
  • Mail Stop Literature Department

Research Interests

20th/21st Century Mexican & Latine Literatures and Cultures, Liquid Humanities, 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

2024 Fellow, Imagining America (IA) Publically Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship

2024 Fellow, The Humanities Insitute Summer Public Fellowship

2023 Recipient, The Humanities Institute Summer Pathways Fellowship

2024 Intern, Peralta Community College District Faculty Diversity Internship Program

2022 Fellow, 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 

 

Teaching Assistant:

CRES 153: A Radical History of the Korean War