Books
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles, Chapters, and Conference Papers
Localization is a political act: Collaborating with Indigenous language speakers in communities. (2025). In N. N. Jones, L. Gonzales, A. M. Haas, and M. F. Williams (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Technical & Professional Communication. Routledge. Access here.
A linguistic justice statement for the field of professional, technical, and scientific communication (PTSC) (with Suzanne Black, Alison Cardinal, Oscar Garcia Santana, Laura Gonzales, Halcyon Lawrence, Soyeon Lee, Diane Martinez, Cecilia D. Shelton, & Josephine Walwema). (2025). In N. N. Jones, L. Gonzales, A. M. Haas, and M. F. Williams (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Technical & Professional Communication. Routledge. Access here.
Carrying meaning, bridging worlds: Indigenous language localization in Western courts. (2024). IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 84-88. Winner of the 2024 James M. Lufkin Award for Best ProComm Paper from the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm). Access here.
Online design thinking and community-based learning: Co-designing an Indigenous curriculum to help redress language marginalization. (2024). Programmatic Perspectives, 14(2), 88-119. Winner of the 2025 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication. Winner of the 2025 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) award in the category of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research Access here.
La traducción es activismo: Desafiando la verticalidad institucional a través de la traducción e interpretación en lenguas indígenas (with Mónica Morales-Good) [Translation is activism: Resisting institutional verticality through translation and interpretation in Indigenous languages]. (2024). In C. Kleinert, E. Monzó Nebot, and V. Tasa Fuster (Eds.), La traducción y la interpretación como claves en la protección de los derechos lingüísticos de las comunidades indígenas. Granada, Spain: Editorial Comares. Access here.
Understanding agency through testimonios: An Indigenous approach to UX research. (2022). Technical Communication, 69(4), 8-26. Winner of the 2023 Frank R. Smith Award for Outstanding Journal Article from the Society for Technical Communication. Access here.
Cultural biases in transitional writing courses and their effect on Hispanic students in Texas. (2021). In A. Bhusal (Ed.), Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms (pp. 39-66). IGI Global. Access here.
Community engagement in TPC programs during times of crises: Embracing Chicana and Latina feminist practices (with Laura Gonzales). (2021). Programmatic Perspectives, 12(2), 39-65. Access here.
Chicanx murals: Decolonizing place and (re)writing the terms of composition. (2020). College Composition and Communication, 72(1), 118-149. Access here.
“If Aristotle had cooked”: Contemporary feminist practices within the rhetoric of young Latinas’ spoken word performances. (2020). Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 20(1), 56-82. Access here.
Nora K Rivera, Ph.D. 