Education 

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MA Writing Studies & Rhetoric | St. Cloud State University Spring 2021 anticipated

• Completing coursework on composition pedagogy and theory, cultural and digital rhetorics, and the history of rhetoric

• Interested in the relationship between rhetoric and genre, mass media, and politics and planning to complete two culminating projects in these areas

• Working towards a cognate in Social Responsibility (applied sociology)

 

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BA Individualized Studies | Metropolitan State University 2018

• Designed my own major (Creative Sexual Communication) to explore the production of texts (comics, games, textbooks) and contexts (queerness and queerphobia, race and racism, social norms) about human sexuality

• Graduated with minors in Community Violence Prevention & Intervention and Game Studies

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Teaching Experience 

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Graduate Teaching Assistant | St. Cloud State University 2019-2021 anticipated

• Leading one section of ENGL 191: Introduction to Rhetorical and Analytical Writing, the FYC course, per semester

• Performing the duties of an instructor of record including designing assignments, grading, and keeping office hours

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Computer Lab Assistant | OperDoor Literacy (Minneapolis) 2018-2019

• Co-moderated a computer lab for ESL adult learners one day a week, including tutoring and custodial duties

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Presentations 

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Kuehn, Chad, Texx, Ulysses, and Toussaint, Alan. Addressing LGBTQ Content in the Classroom: Presentation, Reception, Transition. Minnesota Conference on Writing and English, theme "Civic Engagement Through 21st Century Literacies," 21 Mar 2020, Minnesota State University Mankato. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

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Texx, Ulysses B. USA/Ugly Politics: 2016 Presidential Election Fallout Through Fan Rhetoric. GSU New Voices, theme "(Un)Rest," 7 Feb 2020, Georgia State University.

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Texx, Ulysses B. The Human Transition in the Composition Classroom. Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing, panel "Addressing LGBTQ Content in the English Classroom," 26 Oct 2019, Minnesota State University Mankato.

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Tetu, Liz. The Comic State of Sex Edutainment. Comics Studies Society, theme "Comics & Politics," panel "Sexuality, Gender, and Comics in Pedagogy," 26 Jul 2019, Ryerson University. 

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Tetu, Liz. Objective Sexuality: Sex and Representation as Goals in Video Games. Metropolitan State University Student Research Conference, Apr 2018, Metropolitan State University.

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Tetu, Liz. Technopaganisms + Videogames. Metropolitan State University Student Research Conference, Apr 2017, Metropolitan State University.

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Publications 

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Tetu, Liz. "Making Herstory: Producing a queer female history in Ōoku: The Inner Chambers." LURe: Literary Undergraduate Research, vol. 8, 2018, pp. 86-91.

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Memberships 

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (graduate student) (2020 - )

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Comics Studies Society (independent scholar) (2019 - )

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