Iris D Ruiz
Peggy Shumaker, Series Editor
The Alaska Literary Series publishes poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction. Successful manuscripts have a strong connection to Alaska or the circumpolar north, are written by people living in the far north, or both. We prefer writing that makes the northern experience available to the world, and we choose manuscripts that offer compelling literary insights into the human condition.
All proposals for the this series should follow the press submission guidelines, and submission will be evaluated by the press acquisitions staff, the series editors and/or editorial board, as well as outside experts.
Iris D. Ruiz
Iris D. Ruiz is continuing lecturer for Merritt Writing Program and Lecturer in Ethnic Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. Her current publications are her monograph, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy, winner of the honorable mention CCCC Outstanding Book Award, and Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy, which she coedited in addition to contributing a chapter on the keyword "Race." Her work on race and writing program administration (WPA) was published as an article in the WPA: Writing Program Administration. Her current research focuses upon Chicanx history, decolonial theory, methods, intersectional and cross-generational trauma, and the politics of critical imperial scholarship and citation practices. Her work is also featured in the NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus history book with Parlor Press, Viva Nuestra Caucus, and in the Series for Writing and Rhetoric coedited collection, Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise. She aims to continue to work toward transformative and antiracist leadership, scholarship and pedagogical practice.
