Louisa Spaventa

Post-Secondary Education

University of Texas Austin
Master of Arts
English

Teaching Experience

Austin Community College: 2003-present. English Composition 1301, 1302, American Literature II.

Instructor-created courses:

• Honors 1302 "Queer Writings"
• Liberal Arts Gateway 1301 "Exploring American Identities"
• Liberal Arts Gateway Course ENGL 1302 "Human as Spectacle"

The University of Texas at Austin: 1996-1998. Teaching assistant for Mechanical Engineering technical communications course.

Professional Publications

• “Gay Place” in The Austin Chronicle, 2017
• Bring the Noise: The Best Pop Culture Essays from Barrelhouse Magazine 
• Selected poetry: Coconut Poetry, No Tell Motel, apocryphaltext, Black Dirt, Tight 
• “Electronic Publishing in the Technical Communications Classroom” with C. Moore: American Society for Engineering Education Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, 1998
• The Independent, Santa Barbara's weekly newspaper: 1996 
• Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper: 1995 
• Dog Soup, Atlanta fanzine, staff writer: 1995 
• The Piper, Guilford College’s literary and art magazine, editorial staff: 1991-1994 
• The Guilfordian, Guilford College’s student newspaper, columnist: 1991-1994