Tasha Telles
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Mail code: 0520Campus: Dtphx
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Tasha Telles is a Senior Instructor for the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts for Arizona State University, Downtown Campus teaching English, First-Year Composition along with other Writing Concentration courses.
Aside from teaching, Tasha has participated in ASU's TRIO Upward Bound. A program geared for first-generation and/or low-income college bound high school students; providing academic support, mentoring, and university exposure.
Tasha has served as a mentor in the African and African American Faculty and staff Association and currently serves as the Downtown Campus Rep for the Faculty Women of Color Caucus, an organization that supports the success and access for faculty women of color.
In May 2024, Tasha was awarded the Kathleen A. Glenn Award for Teaching Excellence School of Applied Sciences & Arts, with ASUs Languages and Culture unit. At the foundation of her teaching is a commitment to “brave space” pedagogy and she is committed to continue the success of offering equitable grading practices with contract grading.
- MA English, Northern Arizona University , 2011
- BA Interdisciplinary Studies, Northern Arizona University, 2009
First-Gen Zone Conference: Building Blocks: Centering Student Voices in Pedagogy
- Arizona State University. February 2026
Social Justice WPAing: Talking the Talk AND Walking the Walk - Doing, Accounting, Supporting: Equity Walk in AZ
- Council of Writing Program Administrators, Reno, NV. July 2023
ASU Composition Conference, Arizona State University - Working Towards an Antiracist Writing Classroom Ecology
- Arizona State University, February 2023
Intervening Voices: Exploring Pedagogical Approaches to Inclusion - Unveiling and Contesting Monolingualism in and Through our Teaching. Co-Presented with Dr. Imge Ornali – How can epistemic injustice scholarship help us understand our own biases while teaching?
- DEISJ, CISA, Arizona State University. March 2021.
Antiracist Teaching and Assessment Practicum
- College of Integrated Sciences & Arts (CISA), Arizona State University. Spring - Fall 2022.
Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference (WSRL) - Crafting Identities of Digital Mattering
- New Mexico State University. November 2018.
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2026 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| WAC 101 | Intro to Academic Writing |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 301 | Writing for the Professions |
Crafting Identities of Digital Mattering. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy 2018. (8/2017-11/2018)
Intervening Voices: Exploring Pedagogical Approaches to Inclusion. DEISJ Workshop. Arizona State University. 4 March, 2020
- Unveiling and Contesting Monoligualism In and Through Our Teaching
April 2026 Sun Award
CISA, Arizona State University
March 2026 Outstanding Service Award
(nominated) Career Faculty Association, ASU
March 2026 Outstanding Teaching Award
(nominated) Career Faculty Association, ASU
March 2026 ASU Charter Award
(nominated) CISA College, ASU
March 2025 Professor of Impact Award
Arizona State University
May 2024 Kathleen A. Glenn Award for Teaching Excellence
School of Applied Sciences & Arts, ASU
Languages and Culture
May 2023 Professor of Impact Award
Arizona State University
May 2023 Professor of Impact Award
Arizona State University
May 2023 Sun Award
CISA, Arizona State University
July 2017 Teaching and Dedication Award
Upward Bound, Arizona State University
July 2016 Recognition for Teaching and Dedication
Clemente
October 2016 Sun Award
CISA, Arizona State University
Arizona Women in Higher Education (AWHE), Member
Faculty Women's Association (FWA)
Arizona State University's Faculty Women of Color Caucus (FWOCC)
African and African American Faculty and Staff Association (AAAFSA)
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NFDD), Member 9 August 2018
Mentoring: Honor's Faculty
Ongoing Work
- Barret Honor’s College Support Faculty
August - current (pilot)
- Dialogue Social Cohesion (Humanities) Workshop
August 2025 (current)
- Faculty Women of Color Caucus - ASU Downtown Campus Representative
May – December 2025
- FYC Curriculum Redesign Team
January 2023 – January 2024
- African and African American Faculty and Staff Association
Summer 2017, 2018, 2019
- TRIO Upward Bound
Keynote: A Challenge to Change: Heart-led Leadership in Uncertain Times - Creating an Ecology of Bravery: Challenging and Changing Standards
Arizona Women in Higher Education, Prescott, AZ. April 2026