Wallace Cleaves
Wallace Cleaves is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Associate Director in the University Writing Program at the University of California at Riverside. His main responsibilities include First Year Writing and the TA development program and running the year long series of teaching practicum courses for new instructors in the writing program. His PhD is in Medieval English Literature and he has taught courses in Medieval, Renaissance and Native American literature at Pomona College in Claremont at Cal State Fullerton and at UC Riverside. He is a member of the Gabrieleno/Tongva Native American tribe, the Indigenous peoples of the Los Angeles area, and has served in a variety of positions on the Tribal Council, on the board of the Kuruvungna Springs Foundation, and is currently developing a land conservancy for the Tribal community. Recent publications include: A Student's Companion for The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, work on the 10th, 11th, and 12th editions of the St. Martin’s Guide to Writing including drafting the Instructor’s Manual for that text and for the textbook Reading Critically, Writing Well. He recently wrote a piece for World Literature Today, “Mission Project: Activism on a Smaller Scale,” and co authored and published his first work of Indigenous speculative fiction, “A Parable of Things that Crawl and Fly,” appearing in the magazine Pulp Literature.