Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede

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Dr. Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at California State University, Los Angles. She is a proud first-generation college graduate—the first in her family to earn a degree at a four-year university. Over the years she has been working in higher education, she has taught a wide range of courses in writing pedagogy and multiethnic American literature and has helped to develop several academic programs and global education initiatives for first-generation college students. Her research interests include spectrality and haunting in narratives of American history and culture; rhetorics of US empire; and applications of translingual and antiracist writing pedagogies in the development of writing-intensive study abroad programs for first-gen students. Her current book project, Writing the International First-Generation College Experience, is focused on the international writing communities she has established between first-gen students at institutions in the U.S., England, Canada, and the Dominican Republic. Traveling is her greatest passion, and she is committed to helping more first-gen students achieve their world travel dreams.

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Rahman, Md Mijanur, Danelle Dykhoff Stelzriede, and Linda Margarita Greenberg. "Addressing Equity Gaps in an HSI First-Year Writing Program: Institutional Initiatives and Faculty Collaborations." Writing Program Administration. Forthcoming Spring 2025. 

Markle, Gail and Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede. “Comparing First-Generation Students to Continuing-Generation Students and the Impact of a First-Generation Learning Community.” Innovative Higher Education, August 2020, pp. 1-14. DOI: 10.1007/s10755-020-09502-0.

Dyckhoff Stelzriede, Danelle, Emily Baird, Jennifer Hicks, Katrine Chakmakchian, and Noelle Kahwaji. “Perspectives on COVID: A Cal State LA Compendium.” The Coronavirus Stories Archive. July 2020. WAC Clearinghouse.

Dyckhoff Stelzriede, Danelle. “‘How do you change this tragedy of vision?”: Subversion and Citizenship in Victor Villaseñor’s Rain of Gold.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 44, no. 4, Winter 2019, pp. 20-42.

Nguyen, Shelbee, Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede, and Linda Lyons. “Global Citizenship in the First-Year: Making a World of Difference.” E-Source for College Transitions, vol. 15, no. 1, December 2017, pp. 13-15.

Dyckhoff Stelzriede, Danelle. “Haunted American Histories: Representing Spectral Subjects in Historical Crime Fiction.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Autumn 2017, pp. 77-100.

Rease Miles, La’Tonya and Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede. “Defining the First-Generation College Experience.” E-Source for College Transitions, vol. 13, no. 2, March 2016, pp. 4-6.

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