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Center Graduate Students: Vanessa Rouillon

 

Vanessa Rouillon is a PhD candidate in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Contact Information

403 English Building | MC-718
vrouill2@illinois.edu

Biographical Statement

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of English, with a concentration in Writing Studies. I have a Master's degree in Economics, and in Teaching English as a Second Language. I taught academic writing for ESL students at UIUC for 3 years, and this is my second year as a Rhetoric instructor (Freshman Composition) in English. I'm also a consultant for the Writers Workshop. This is my third year there.

Research Interests

Discourse and text analysis; conversation analysis; study of narratives and multimodal writing; and African American literacies.