Faculty and Staff Directory

Affiliated University Position(s)

Executive Director, Office of Global Affairs

Introduction

Dr. de Veritch Woodside’s research focuses broadly on the subversive power of voice and storytelling in Latinx/e and borderlands literature and vis-à-vis oral histories of local immigrant and refugee communities. She is the award-winning author of Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration (Texas Tech UP, 2021), an interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational migration that underscore the intersections of the physical, psychological, sociocultural, and legal/structural traumas endured by migrants and their families.

Her community-engaged research includes collaborative projects with formerly detained immigrants and their families to document psychosocial effects of displacement, detention, and deportation on individuals affected by immigration and enable partner organizations to improve and expand their services; with local undergraduate students who are undocumented and/or from mixed-status families; and with community partners to address the intersections of environmental racism, climate change, and migrant justice. She also developed an initiative funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities that connects UWT students with Tacoma Public Library’s Community Archives Center to engage with local non-profits and community members in a participatory process to co-create community archives that celebrate the diverse histories and experiences of our local communities whose experiences and histories are largely missing in local history collections and narratives.

Current Research

In recent years, Dr. de Veritch Woodside's research has expanded into various, interconnected directions, which include the following areas:

• Representations of trauma, narrative empathy theory, and narratives of transnational migration; 
• Community-based participatory research (CBPR) regarding psychosocial effects of displacement, detention, and deportation; 
• Educational and professional inequities faced by college students who are undocumented/DACAmented (and/or from mixed-status families);
• Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) addressing intersectional systems of oppressions connected with the Northwest Detention Center (now known as the Northwest ICE Processing Center);
• Documenting local Latinx/e and immigrant/refugee communities’ contributions to the South Sound; and 
• Global learning, access, and equity.

Teaching

Course Content and Delivery in English

TLAX 238: Hispanics/Latines in the U.S.
TLAX 267: Intro. to Chicanx/e Literature
TLAX 277: Latin American Literature in Translation
TLAX 355: Migration and the Transnational Family in Latinx/e Literature and Film

Course Content and Delivery in Spanish

TSPAN 101: Elementary Spanish I
TSPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II
TSPAN 103: Elementary Spanish III
TSPAN 303: Spanish Stylistics & Composition
TSPAN 335: Hispanic Linguistics
TSPAN 345: Spanish for Community Engagement
TSPAN 352: Hispanic Cultural Studies
TSPAN 388: Contemporary U.S. Latinx/e Literature
TSPAN 464: Mexican Literature and Culture
TSPAN 496: Experiential Learning/Internship
 

Affiliations

• Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) 
• Association of Washington International Student Affairs (AWISA) 
• National Association of Fellowship Advisors (NAFA) 
• Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidad (AEGS/AGSS) 
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 
• Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 
• The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 
• National Women Studies Association (NWSA) 
• National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) 
• Modern Language Association (MLA) 

Honors and Awards

International Latino Studies Book Award Silver Medal, Academic Themed Book (College) for Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration. 2022.

Judy Ewell Award for Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. 2022.

Distinguished Community Engagement Award in Human Rights. Office of Community Partnerships. University of Washington Tacoma. 2021.

Nominated for Adviser of the Year Award. Outstanding Student Ceremony for Awards and Recognition (OSCAR). University of Washington Tacoma. 2017.

Nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Member Award. Outstanding Student Ceremony for Awards and Recognition (OSCAR). University of Washington Tacoma. 2016.

University of Washington Tacoma Outstanding Women Award. Center for Equity and Inclusion. 2016.