René

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René LeBlanc, M.A., M.F.A.

Writing Services Coordinator
Prelaw Advisor
SLAC
512.245.2515
trleblanc@txstate.edu

Biography & Education

René is the Writing Services Coordinator, at Texas State University's Student Learning Assistance Center. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting, Magna Cum Laude, and a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Magna Cum Laude, both from Lamar University. René also has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Fiction, Summa Cum Laude, from Southwest Texas State University. Currently, she is working on her PhD in Developmental Education, Literacy, from Texas State University.

As the Writing Services Coordinator she oversees the training of SLAC’s writing tutors, manages SLAC’s Online Writing Lab (OWL), collaborates in training events for the SLAC tutoring staff, works with students with preprofessional writing needs, and meets with students for Study Strategies sessions. René is one of two LSAC prelaw advisors at Texas State, René conducts intake interviews with students interested in pursuing law and works with them throughout their journey to law school, from guiding LSAT prep choices to writing personal statements, addenda, and curricula vitae. Overall, René’s work at SLAC supports the university’s mission to promote all students’ success.

Before joining SLAC in 2001, René taught English composition at Lamar University, worked at Texas State in 1994 as a tutor at the Writing Center, a Library Assistant in the Southwestern Writers Collection and the Wittliff Gallery, and a Teaching Assistant in the English department.

Selected Service Activities

  • Membership Chair. TX-National Organizations for Student Support (TX-NOSS)/Texas Association of Developmental Education (TADE). 2021-2022.
  • Mentor, Developmental Education, Literacy PhD. Program. 2022-2023.
  • Advisor, InkSpot Creative Writing Club 2015-present.
  • Treasurer, Student Association of Developmental Education (SADE) 2020-2021.

Selected Creative/Scholarly Work

  • Hodges, R., Acee, T. W., Jarrett, S. M., LeBlanc, R., Lin, Y., Castillo, A. M., Cox, C. H. T., Lawson, C., Oelschlegel, C. P., & Flaggs, D. A. (2019). Characteristics of learning frameworks courses in Texas public community colleges. Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2(1), 7-23. https://journals.tdl.org/jcasp/index.php/jcasp.
  • Hodges, R., Payne, E., Morgan, K., Ashton-Johnson, & LeBlanc, R. (2019). Salient factors for student success gained through a learning frameworks course. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 49(2), 129-145.
  • LeBlanc, T. R. (2018). Learning styles: Academic fact or urban myth? A recent review of the literature. Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 1(1), 34-40.
  • LeBlanc, T. R. (2013). Where the Body Ends. Queen’s Ferry Press.

Selected Presentations

  • LeBlanc, T. R., (2021, Dec. 2-4). Neurodiversity in postsecondary developmental education literacy courses: Postsecondary literacy study group doctoral panel. [Conference session]. Literacy Research Association (LRA), Atlanta, GA, United States.
  • LeBlanc, T. R (2021, Oct. 19). Neurodiversity and neurodivergence: Language gets everyone under the umbrella. [Conference session]. College Learning Center Association, (CRLA), Cincinnati, OH, United States.
  • Hill-Troglin, C., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, Nov.). Practitioners designing bridges to success: For all students. [Conference session]. College Academic Support Providers (CASP), Waco, TX, United States.
  • Shinn, H., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, Oct. 30-Nov. 1). Grow your own: Cultivating tutors through a private tutor program. [Round table]. College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA), New Orleans, LA, United States.
  • Hill-Troglin, C., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, Oct. 30-Nov. 1). Higher education and students with disabilities: Celebrating difference, embracing diversity. New Orleans, LA, United States.
  • Hill-Troglin, C., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, Sept.). Universal design off to the races: Disability diagnosis is not panacea. [Conference session]. National College Learning Center Association, St. Louis, MO, United States.
  • Edgel, T., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, May). A parenting of hope: Autoethnography on parenting adults with intellectual and developmental disorders. International Qualitative Congress, Champagne, Ill, United States.
  • LeBlanc, T. R., & Edgel, T. (2019, March). Student success courses: How strategy transfer takes off into core coursework. [Conference session]. National Association for Developmental Educators, Atlanta, GA, United States.
  • Shetron, T., Edgel, T., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, March). College students with intellectual disabilities take flight: Catch them on your campus. [Conference session]. National Association for Developmental Educators, Atlanta, GA, March 2019.
  • Fong, C., Ashton-Johnson, K., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, October). LASSI’s great adventure. [Conference session]. College Reading and Learning Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
  • Acee, T., Hodges, T., Jarrett, S., LeBlanc, T. R., Lin, Y., & Lawson, C. (2019, October).  Steering students towards success: an analysis of Texas learning framework courses [Conference session]. College Reading and Learning Association, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
  • Fong, C., Hill-Troglin, C., & LeBlanc, T. R. (2019, October). Higher education and students with disabilities: Celebrating difference, embracing diversity [Conference session]. College Reading and Learning Association, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
  • LeBlanc, T. R. (2017, October). Learning styles: Academic fact or urban myth, [Conference session]. College Academic Support Providers, Galveston, TX, United States.

Courses Taught

  • University Seminar (US 1100)
  • First-Year English (ENG 1310-ENG 1320)
  • Introduction to Creative Writing (ENG 3315)
  • Creative Writing: Fiction (ENG 4348)
  • Memoirs from Lives Off the Neurotypical Map (HON2309J.H01)

Honors Theses Directed

  • Massengale, Joseph. (April, 2019). For Madmen Only? The Authentic Memoir’s Destabilization of Identity.
  • Gonzales, Vanessa. (Nov., 2019). The Magic Number: A Collection of Stories About OCD.
  • Barrett, Kathleen Elaine. (April, 2017). Believe: A Collection of Short Stories. 
  • Crawford, Benjamin. (November, 2009). The Indwelling God.  
  • Boyd, Stephanie. (April, 2009). Horse AWAREness. Honors College.