About Me
My name is Roberto Leon and I am a recent graduate of the Language, Writing, and Rhetoric doctoral program at the University of Maryland College Park. My research, teaching, and service center on issues of encounter, form, and agency.
My research interests include histories and theories of rhetoric and composition, comparative rhetoric, professional/technical writing, second language writing, and writing program administration. Recent presentations can be found on here. A recent publication is "Review of Style and the Future of Composition Studies, edited by Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri" in Composition Studies 49.3 (2021), pp. 200-203.
In addition to teaching in Maryland, I have previously taught in Hawai’i and Utah, and have regularly taught online courses since 2013. Besides teaching first year composition, I have also designed and taught courses in rhetorical theory, technical writing, grammar, basic writing, L2 oral fluency, and tutoring oral fluency. In all my teaching, I encourage metacognition as a way of recognizing and developing flexible approaches to form and agency.
SERVICE
I currently serve as an Administrative Fellow for the University of Maryland's Writing Center and serve on the board of Interpolations: A Journal of Academic Writing at the University of Maryland. Previously, I have also served as an Administrative Fellow with our Academic Writing Program, a summer Administrative Fellow for the University of Maryland Writing Center, as a Mentor-in-Teaching with the English Department, and as a member of the Digital Presence committee of the Writing Program Administrators Graduate Organization (WPA-GO). I have worked with our department Writing Committee as a graduate student representative and I co-chaired our 2020 graduate student conference, "Radical Visions: Abolition as Praxis in Literature, Rhetoric, and Culture."
