Damian Baca
Damián Baca is Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona, and faculty with the Bread Loaf Graduate School of English in Monterey, CA. He is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing, a retelling of the story of writing as a technology that emerges not with alphabets in the North Atlantic, but across the Valley of México, long before European territorial annexation and the advent of modernity/coloniality. He has also co-edited Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE (2010), Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference (2018), and Pluriversal Literacies: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures (2024). His 2019 publication, Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions with Romeo García, is Winner of the 2020 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Edited Collection).