About
Loren is a second-year PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education. Born in Asunción, Paraguay and raised in Brooklyn, NY, they earned their BA in Classics (with minor in translation studies) at the University of Michigan (2015), MPhil in Classics at Cambridge (2016), and MA in Classics with a certificate in writing pedagogy at UCLA (2019). Prior to returning to Michigan, they worked as a creative writing teacher for 6th-12th grade students, as a university writing specialist at the University of Oregon, and in digital accessibility and distance education at Northwestern University in Chicago. They are also a poet and speculative fiction writer.
Loren's research focuses on the history and pedagogy of college composition, especially writing's intersections with empire, materiality, labor, and critical theory, as well as abiding interests in writing centers, critical university studies, and 20th-century noir/pulp. They have published in the Writing Center Journal on contingent writing center workers and the rhetoric of (dis)comfort.
