Staff Profile

Ruben Quesada

INTRODUCTION

Education & Training

Ph.D., English, Texas Tech University
M.F.A., Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts, University of California-Riverside  

 

Community

• Co-Chair, Women's History Awareness Month (2014 - 2015) 
• Faculty Representative, EIU Presidential Search Committee (2014 - 2015)

• Editorial Director/Founder: S&Q. Stories & Queer, a literary reading series whose mission is to create safe storytelling spaces for poets & writers of color in underrepresented areas of the country.

• Literary Editorial Experience

2014 - Present: Poetry Editor, Cobalt Review
2012 - Present: Poetry Editor, The Cossack Review
2011 - Present: Founder/Publisher, Codex Journal 

Publications

Interviews
 

Blue Mesa Review
University of Missouri-Kansas City
The Conversant 
La Bloga
Quiddity
Letras Latinas

Funding & Grants

• Person of the Year, The Daily Eastern News (2015) 
• Council on Faculty Research Award (2014 - 2015) 
• Writer-in-Residence, Red Lodge Clay Center (June 2015)
• Fellow, CantoMundo Latino Writers Collective (2011 - Present)
• Fellow, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference (2011)
• Writer-in-Residence, Santa Fe Art Institute (May 2010) 
• Fellow, Vermont Studio Center (2009)
• Fellow, Squaw Valley Community of Writers (2007)
• Fellow, Lambda Literary Foundation Writer’s Retreat (2007)
• Fellow, Idyllwild Arts Program (2007)

Frequently Taught Courses

• Poetry Writing
• Dramatic Writing
• Literary and Cultural Criticism
• Composition and Language
   

Research & Creative Interests

• Poetry & Poetics 
• Dramatic Writing
• Cultural Theory & Criticism 

Professional Affiliations

• Cantomundo
• Letras Latinas
• Modern Language Association
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs