TWU English shines at CCTE conference

Mar. 4, 2025 — DENTON — The Texas Woman's University Division of English had an impressive showing at the 91st Conference of College Teachers of English conference Feb. 27-Mar. 1 in San Antonio.

Ten TWU graduate students or recent alumni gave presentations: Anna Anderson, Alexis Ramirez, Crystal Sosa, Karissa Garza, Desireé Thorpe, Lia Schuermann, Bethany Weston, Raegan Harvey, Juliette Holder, and Amanda Kerr.

Two of those earned awards, First-Year Composition instructor Weston took home the TCEA Best Paper of the Year Award for “Counter-Composition: Critical Race Theory Counterstory as a Means of Pedagogical Escape,” and PhD student Sosa earned the award for best nonfiction entry, “Hurricane: A Family’s Tale of Devastation.”

TWU was represented on the CCTE executive board by Danielle Littlefield Brady, Jennifer Judd, Rachel Johnston, PhD, Daniel Ernst, PhD, and Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, PhD. For the next term, Littlefield Brady was unanimously elected as President-Elect and TWU alumna Desireé Thorpe was elected to serve as a council member.

TWU's Sierra Mendez, PhD, gave the keynote address at the President’s Forum, discussing her work regarding postcards from the early 1900s used to spread a narrative about San Antonio to racially segregate the community.