Episode 47 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in the Emerging Scholar Series. Florianne "Bo" Jimenez is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is currently Assistant Director of the UMass Writing Center. Her research interests lie in postcolonial theory, multilingual writing, literacy history, and Filipino studies, and she is writing her dissertation on resistance in Filipino student writing in the American colonial classroom at the turn of the 20th century. She was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. When she’s not writing her dissertation, Bo loves working out, reading, testing new recipes in the kitchen, and spending time with her husband and their two cats.
