Fairuze Ahmed Ramirez
Lecturer
Email:
farramirez@ucdavis.edu
Office:
Shields 89
Research Areas:
Culture and Language;
Language and Power;
Power and Disguise;
Media Literacy & Mass Communications;
Visual Rhetoric and Oral Storytelling;
Yemeni-Arab American Studies- Negotiating identities
Teaching Areas:
Entry Level Writing
First-Year Writing & Composition
Integrated Reading and Writing
Writing Across the Disciplines
Writing for Social Change
Multimodal Composing
Biography:
Informed by my academic background in Anthropology, TESOL and Teaching College Composition, I strive to foster a collaborative learning environment that engages students with meaningful texts and topics, to support students' multilingual literacy needs and multicultural identities. In addition to providing learning opportunities that allow students to read and write for personal or academic purposes, I am also passionate about creating learning opportunities that raise students’ critical consciousness of political communication, to discover how culture, texts, and image shape our beliefs, and perceptions about people, language, and society.
Education:
B.A. Anthropology
M.A. TESOL & College Composition
California State University, Sacramento