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Portrait of Dr. Octavio Pimentel

Dr. Octavio Pimentel

  • Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2024

  • Pimentel, O. (2024). Blurb--“Glass ceiling breaking. Está cabron el libro—this book is powerful, and meaningful to all who read it. The engagement of Indigenous people in the Technical Writing field is next level thinking that will surely have people wanting more. Gracias.” Logan, Utah, United States: Utah State University Press.
  • Pimentel, O. (2024). Our Voice Matters. In The First-Gen Podcast.
  • Pimentel, O. (2024). Continuing to the End. In The First-Gen Podcast.
  • Pimentel, O. (2024). Navigating Higher Education. In The First-Gen Podcast.
  • Pimentel, O. (2024). Dandole Gas: Un Profe con Sangre del Fil. In Cross-Talking With An American Academic of Color: Essays in Honor of Victor Villanueva.
  • Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (2024). Foreword. In Grassroots Activism: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts. Ohio State University.

2023

  • Pimentel, O. (2023). The First in my Family. In The First-Gen Podcast. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/25PTGf3TWwg9hgrzb6gAGZ
  • Pimentel, O. (2023). We Are Strong Already. In The First-Gen Podcast. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/3tUTmtOQZ9ilwmOBMkyj4F
  • Pimentel, O. (2023). I Found a Path. In The First-Gen Podcast. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pD5593csCp7acZTb3ycXO
  • Pimentel, O. (2023). Believe in Yourself. In The First-Gen Podcast. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wrGDC7VJ9rr2Tar5KoyV4
  • Pimentel, O. (2023). Willing to Persist. In The First-Gen Podcast. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/25PTGf3TWwg9hgrzb6gAGZ

2021

  • Pimentel, O. (2021). The Push for the 1974 Statement…Once again.”. Symposium on Black Lives Matter and Antiracist Projects in Writing Program Administration: WPA Journal.
  • Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (Eds.). (2021). Cuentos and Testimonies II: Students’ Voices, Inclusion, & Anti-Racism. San Marcos, Texas, United States: Texas State University.
  • Pimentel, O., & Jimenez, J. (2021). Conversation Between a Prospective Student and a Texas State Professor: Empowering Students of Color. In Cuentos and Testimonies II: Students’ Voices, Inclusion, & Anti-Racism.

2019

  • Pimentel, O. (2019). “¡No Escondan el Nopal! Tus Raices son Obvias!” In Cuentos & Testimonies: Diversity & Inclusion at Texas State University. San Marcos, Texas, USA: Texas State University. Retrieved from https://www.provost.txstate.edu/cuentos-and-testimonies
  • Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (Eds.). (2019). Cuentos & Testimonies:  Diversity & Inclusion at Texas State University.

2018

  • Medina, C. (2018). Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media. (O. Pimentel, Eds.). Computers and Composition Digital Press.
  • Pimentel, O. (2018). Not the King: Cantando el Himno Nacional de los Estados Unidos. In Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media. Computers and Composition Digital Press.
  • Pimentel, O. (2018). It’s Time to Hear Me! I Mean Really Hear Me! In Making Futures Matter. Online.
  • Pimentel, O. (2018). Counter Stories: Brotherhood in a Latino Fraternity. Open Words Journal.
  • Pimentel, O. (2018). Introduction. In Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media. Computers and Writing Press.

2016

  • Pimentel, O., Pimentel, C. N., & Dean, J. (2016). The Myth of the Colorblind Writing Classroom: White Instructors Confront White Privilege in their Classrooms. In Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication (pp. 109–122). Boulder, Colorado, USA: University Press of Colorado.
  • Pimentel, O., & Wilson, N. A. (2016). Éxito (Success). In Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy (pp. 125–136). New York, New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.

2015

  • Pimentel, O. (2015). Historias de exito within Mexican Communities: Silenced Voices. (O. Pimentel, Ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press.

2014

  • Williams, M. F., & Pimentel, O. (2014). Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication. New York, New York: Baywood Press.
  • Pimentel, O., & Gutierrez, K. (2014). Taqueros, Luchadores, y los Brits: U.S. Racial Rhetoric, and its Global Influence. In M. F. Williams & O. Pimentel (Eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Technical Communication for the Baywood Technical Communication Series (pp. 87–99).
  • Pimentel, O. (2014). Learning to Write in Writing Centers: The Racial Experiences of Two Mexican Students. English in Texas, 44(2), 34–39.
  • Pimentel, O. (2014). [Review of El Dia de Los Muertos, by C. Tatum]. In Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañera. Santa Barbara, CA, USA: ABC-CLIO-Greenwood.

2013

  • Pimentel, O. (2013). The Changing Demographics of the United States: Rethinking the Academic Experience of English Language Learners. The Council Chronicle, 23(1), 27–28.
  • Pimentel, O. (2013). An Invitation to a Too-Long Postponed: Race and Composition. Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Community Literacy, and Service Learning, 12(2), 90–104.

2012

  • Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (2012). Race, Ethnicity, and Technical Communication: Examining Multicultural Issues within the United States. Journal of JBTC (3rd ed., Vol. 26).

2010

  • Pimentel, O. (2010). Mi Pobre Güerito. In L. D. Soto & H. Kharem (Eds.), Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children: Teachers Talk About Language and Learning (pp. 73–78).
  • Howard, R. M., & Pimentel, O. (2010). Latina/o Language, Discourses, and Rhetorics: A Bibliography for Composition and Rhetoric. Retrieved from http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Bibs/Latina.htm>.

2009

  • Pimentel, O. (2009). Disrupting Discourse: Introducing Mexicano Immigrant Success Stories, 80(2), 171-196.
  • Pimentel, O., & Velázquez, P. (2009). Shrek 2: An Appraisal of Mainstream Animation’s Influence on Identity Construction between African American and Latinas/os, 8(1), 5-21.

2008

  • Pimentel, C., Diaz-Soto, L., Pimentel, O., & Urrieta, L. (2008). The Dual Language Dualism: ¿Quiénes Ganan? Texas Association for Bilingual Education (TABE) Journal, 10(1), 200–223.
  • Johnson, J. R., Pimentel, O., & Pimentel, C. (2008). Writing New Mexico White: A Critical Analysis of Early Representations of New Mexico in Technical Writing. Journal of Business and Technical Communicatio, 22(2), 211–236.
  • Pimentel, O., & Velázquez, P. (2008). Shrek 2: An Appraisal of Mainstream Animation’s Influence on Identity. Journal of Latinos and Education, 8(1), 5–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348430802466704
  • Johnson, J. R., Pimentel, O., & Pimentel, C. (2008). Writing New Mexico White. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22(2), 211–236. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651907311928

2002

  • Pimentel, O. (2002). Coalition Pedagogy: Building Bonds Between Instructors and Students of Color. In V. Villanueva & S. B. Fowler (Eds.), Included in English Studies: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity (pp. 115–124).