George Mason University; Fairfax, VA, 2022-2025
    Ph.D. Student in Writing and Rhetoric
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Lafayette, LA
     Master of Arts in English, Rhetoric and Composition; May 2020
     Bachelor of Arts in English, Linguistics; December 2013
          -Minor in Communications

Thibodaux High School; Thibodaux, Louisiana, 2010
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Academic

Doctoral Researcher and Writing Instructor

George Mason University, Department of Writing and Rhetoric; August 2021 - Present
- Presidential Scholarship Awardee

Writing Consultant

Brainfuse, NetTutor, & Tutor.com; May 2020 - August 2021

University of Louisiana at Lafayette; August 2018 - May 2020
- Assistant Director of the Writing Center; August 2019 - May 2020

Writing Instructor

George Mason University; Fall 2022
-ENGH 382: Rhetoric of the Essay; a genre-studies course exploring how "the essay" historically and contemporarily makes knowledge

University of Louisiana at Lafayette; August 2019 - May 2020
- Instructor of record in the first-year composition sequence, English 101 and 102.

Content Creation

Freelance Writer & SEO Content Creator
- 2013 - Present
Toast on the Line - 2021-2023

Social Media Manager, New Orleans, LA
- Breads on Oak; June 2014 - August 2016
- Davillier Photography and Graphics; June 2013 - June 2014
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Foodservice

Server
- Boulevard American Bistro; March 2016 - August 2018

Barista
- Starbucks, Lafayette, LA; 2011 - December 2013
- French Truck Coffee, New Orleans, LA; August 2016 - December 2016
- Reve Coffee Lab, Lafayette, LA; May 2020 - August 2021

Kitchen Manager
-Breads on Oak, New Orleans, LA; December 2015-August 2017

Roaster Apprentice
-French Truck Coffee, New Orleans, LA; December 2016 - August 2018
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Extant:

Publications

Everything You Need to Eat: Food, Access, and Community
Review: ‍Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other
Review: Queerly Centered: LGBTQIA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace
Underrepresentation as Opportunity in the UL Lafayette Writing Center; The Dangling Modifier

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Conferences

"Labor and Precarity: Graduate Students Navigate the Neoliberal Academy." Tyler Martinez, Nic Nusbaumer, McKinley Green, Kelby Gibson, Jessie Wiggins; Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2024

"Disconnections: What are the Effects of Compliance in Graduate Labor Systems?" Tyler Martinez, Nic Nusbaumer, McKinley Green, Kelby Gibson, Jessie Wiggins; Association for the Teaching of Technical Writing Conference, 2023

"Fear as Ethos: The Charge for Change from March for Our Lives," Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 2022

"When your home is not for you: An embodied perspective on the history of Rhetoric" Symposium of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2022

"Talking to the Commenting Persona on TikTok," North Eastern Modern Language Association Conference, 2022

“Building Inclusivity and Transfer in UL’s Writing Center,” South Central Writing Center's Association Conference, 2020
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“Toward a Queer Writing Center,” College English Association Conference, 2019

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Chair – Rhetoric Society of America Student Chapter at George Mason Universtiy – 2021 - Present

Representative - Graduate and Professional Student Association at George Mason University - 2023-2025

Reviewer - Rhetoric Society of America Conference - 2024

Moderator - Secondary School Writing Center Conference - 2023
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Webmaster – ULL Writing Center 2019-2020
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Webmaster—Rougarou Journal of Arts and Literature 2019-2020
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Registration Committee Volunteer – Global Souths Conference 2019 – 2020
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Presidential Scholarship - 2022-2025 - George Mason University Writing and Rhetoric Program
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the First Year – 2020 – UL Lafayette First-Year Writing Program
Alumni Association Outstanding Master’s Graduate – 2020 – UL Lafayette
Outstanding Master’s Student – 2020 – UL Lafayette English Department - $200
A+ Scholarship – 2011 - Nicholas State University
TOPS Scholarship – 2010-2013 - State of Louisiana

Tyler J. Martinez

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