Shelley Rodrigo

Senior Director, Writing Program

Professor

Modern Languages 451A

rrodrigo@arizona.edu

Research Areas

Professional development & mentoring

Online & technologically mediated learning

Writing program administration

Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is the Senior Director of the Writing Program; Professor in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) program; in the Department of English; and Affiliate Faculty with the School of Information at the University of Arizona. She researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. Shelley recently co-authored the award-winning Teaching Literacy Online; is working on the fourth co-authored edition of The Wadsworth/Cengage Guide to Research, and co-edited Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as College Composition and Communication, Journal of Writing Assessment, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, Teaching English in the Two-Year College¸ as well as various edited collections. In 2022 she became a Research Associate with The Readability Consortium and a Distinguished Fellow in the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona. In 2021 she was elected Vice President of the National Council of Teachers of English (a 4-year term including President in 2024) and was awarded the Arizona Technology in Education Association’s Ruth Catalano Friend of Technology Innovation Award. In 2018 she became an Adobe Education Leader, in 2014 she was awarded Old Dominion University’s annual Teaching with Technology Award, in 2012 the Digital Humanities High Powered Computing Fellowship, and, in 2010 she became a Google Certified Teacher/Innovator.

Books

Mitchum, Catrina, and Rochelle Rodrigo. Teaching Literacy Online: Observing, Analyzing, and Producing in Multiple Media. National Council of Teachers of English Press, 2024. Recipient of 2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research Publication given by the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age Research.
Miller-Cochran, Susan K., and Rochelle L. Rodrigo. The Wadsworth Guide to Research. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2009.
           The Wadsworth Guide to Research, 2nd ed., 2014.
           The Cengage Guide to Research, 3rd ed., 2017.
           The Cengage Guide to Research, 4th ed., in print.
Miller-Cochran, Susan, and Rochelle Rodrigo, eds. Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and Methodologies. Hampton Press, 2009.

Refereed Journal Articles

Koenig, Sallie, Catrina Mitchum, and Rochelle Rodrigo. “Using Completion Rubrics to Grade Engagement in Online Spaces.” Journal of Writing Assessment, vol. 18, no. 1, 2025.
Tseptsura, Mariya, and Rochelle Rodrigo. “FAQ: Developing & Maintaining Shared Curriculum.” Writing Program Administrator Journal ,vol. 48, no. 1, 2024, pp. 30-46.
Rodrigo, Rochelle, and Larissa Runyan. “Adaptation as Learning Transformation: Altering Conceptions of the Self via Multimedia.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4, 2024.
Mitchum, Catrina, Sallie Koenig, and Rochelle Rodrigo. “How do we know it works? Feedback Loops to Raise the Messy Middle in Online Formative Peer Assessment.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 75, no. 3., 2024, pp. 513-533.
Haverland, Arin, Kayle Skorupski, Catrina Mitchum, Rochelle Rodrigo, and Anna Leach. “There and Back Again: Implementing and Assessing a Digital Reading, Research, and Writing Application.” Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, vol. 2., no. 2., 2024, pp. 170-190.
Rodrigo, Rochelle, Beth Eyres, and Sara Walton. “Strategic Interventions: Grades-Based Nudging in Online and Hybrid Courses.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 51, no. 1, 2023, pp. 17-32.

Book Chapters

Halla, Michelle, Josh Barrows, Thais Cons, Huma Iqbal, Susan Miller-Cochran and Rochelle Rodrigo. “Human in the Loop: Leaning into Generative AI for Annotated Bibliographies.” The AI and Library Instruction Cookbook, The Association of College and Research Libraries. In Press.
Horton, Analeigh, and Rochelle Rodrigo. “Extra! Extra! Programmatic Newsletters as a Way to Read All About It.” WPAing in a Pandemic and Beyond, edited by Todd Ruecker and Sheila Carter-Tod. Utah State University Press, 2025, pp. 112-116.
Rodrigo, Shelley. “So, you want to be an OWPA.” PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Program Leaders, edited by Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle. The WAC Clearinghouse, 2023, pp. 20-36.
Rodrigo, Rochelle, and Teresa Davis. “Assigning and Assessing: Creative and Digital Literacies.” Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Annual Conference, 2022, edited by Christopher D. M. Andrews, Chen Chen, and Lydia Wilkes. The WAC Clearinghouse, 2023, pp. 53-70.
Mitchum, Catrina, and Rochelle Rodrigo. “Administrative Policies and Pre-Designed Courses (PDCs): Negotiating Instructor and Student Agency.” Working With and Against Shared Curricula: Perspectives from College Writing Teachers and Administrators, edited by Constance Kendall Theado and Samantha NeCamp. Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 29-44.

Shelley Rodrigo

Research Areas

Department of EnglishP.O. Box 210067, Modern Languages 445University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

Department of English
P.O. Box 210067, Modern Languages 445
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721