Cruz Medina

Cruz Medina is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Santa Clara University, and faculty for the Bread Loaf School of English program in Santa Fe, NM and Middlebury, Vermont. Dr. Medina’s research interests include digital writing and multicultural rhetoric, focusing on issues of social justice. His book Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining the Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency (Palgrave 2015) addresses issues of citizenship, education and politics related to Latin@s in the U.S. Visit Dr. Medina’s blog for updated teaching and research activities.

(Photo: Alex Hidalgo)

Education

PhD, University of Arizona
MA and MFA, Chapman University
BA, University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications

“‘Publishing is Mystical’: The Latinx Caucus Bibliography, Top-Tier Journals, and Minority Scholarship.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 39, no. 3, 2020, pp. 303-316. (with Perla Luna).
Medina, Cruz, and Octavio Pimentel, editors. Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media. Logan: Computers and Composition Digital P/Utah State UP, 2018, http://ccdigitalpress.org/shorthand.
“Decolonial Potential in a Multilingual FYC.” Composition Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, 2019, pp. 74-95. scholar commons link (Included in Best of the Journals of Rhetoric and Composition 2020)
“Comment & Response: A Response to Kim Hensley Owens’s ‘In Lak’ech, the Chicano Clap, and Fear: A Partial Rhetorical Autopsy of Tucson’s Now-Illegal Ethnic Studies Classes.’” College English, vol. 80, no. 6, 2018, pp. 539-545 (with Aja Y. Martinez and Gloria J. Howerton. https://works.bepress.com/cruz-medina/13/
Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. Google Books
“Family Profession.” College Composition and Communication (Sept. 2013) scholar commons link