Michelle Kells

Michelle Hall Kells is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the English Department at the University of New Mexico and is a published author of numerous articles and books. She teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in 20th Century Civil Rights Rhetoric, Contemporary and Classical Rhetoric, Writing and Cultural Studies, and Language Diversity. She previously taught at Texas A&M. Her past and current work have helped to document the Mexican-American struggle for civil rights. She is a specialist in ethnolinguistic stratification and intercultural communication.
She is the author of: "Hector P. Garcia: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights".
She also has coedited the following: "Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines" (Heinemann, 1999) and "Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education" (Heinemann, 2004).
In 1999 she participated in the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
She is currently authoring on a new book project titled "Vicente T. Ximenes and LBJ’s “Great Society”: The Rhetoric of Mexican American Civil Rights Reform".

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