Shillana Bowen-Armendarez

Shillana Bowen-Armendarez is a Teaching Professor on ASU's Downtown campus where she teaches composition and literature. She also serves as the First Year Composition Coordinator for the Polytechnic and Downtown Phoenix campuses. In her role as Associate Dean for Career Track Faculty Development, Bowen-Armendarez represents career track faculty interests in academic policy, shared governance, and strategic planning; supports professional development initiatives that help CISA faculty thrive and align with broader college and university goals; and oversees faculty hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and career advancement for career track and clinical faculty.

Aside from her administrative and teaching responsibilities, she is involved with programs and opportunities targeted for student success such as Upward Bound, Bridging Success Early Start programs with Political Science and Social Work students, and ProMod. Bowen-Armendarez is also an affiliate faculty and teaching faculty fellow with the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.

In addition to teaching composition on the Downtown campus, Bowen-Armendarez has taught Lord of the Rings: A Study in Fan-Fiction; Fairy Tales and their Modern Retellings; Contemporary Literature; World Literature; British Literature.