Reva E. Sias

Reva E. Sias is an Associate Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program, in the Department of English at California State University, Fresno. She specializes and teaches courses in cultural rhetoric(s), critical race theory, anti-racist writing assessment, and writing theory and pedagogy. As a Writing Program Administrator, she serves as the Interim Co-Director of the Writing Program at Fresno State. Her research interests, as well as her published works, include archival studies, rhetorical feminist historiography, cultural literacy, African American rhetoric and culture, Black Feminist and Womanist Theory, visual literacy, and Black women’s studies and literacy practices. In addition to her service in the Department of English, Dr. Sias serves on the Fresno State Academic Senate, on the University Graduate Committee, and on the College of Arts and Humanities Executive Council. Likewise, she holds and has held many leadship roles in several professional organizations in English Studies and in the field of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies. For instance, Dr. Sias serves on the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Board of Directors. She has held elected leadership on the NCTE College Section Steering Committee, and in the Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly, where she was the international representative for Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Programs. She also served as the chair of the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Richard Ohmann Award Select Committee, which selects the best article in the annual volume of the College English Journal, and which is awarded by NCTE College Section Steering Committee. In addition to her contribution in collections and profesisonal journals, her most recent publication is "Searching for Myrtilla Miner’s School for Colored Girls: Afrafeminist Strivings, Ethical Representations, and Nineteenth-Century Archives” in Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry (2021). Dr. Reva E. Sias serves as a submission reviewer for the Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.