Jessica Rivera-Mueller

Jessica Rivera-Mueller is an Associate Professor at Utah State University in the Department of English. She directs the department's concurrent enrollment program and teaches courses focused on English education and writing studies. Her academic work emphasizes teacher development, pedagogical inquiry, teacher agency, and social justice education, with a commitment to collaborative learning with students and colleagues.

Her research has been published in journals such as Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, and Utah English Journal, as well as in edited collections within writing studies and education. She actively serves on the executive board of the Utah Council of Teachers of English and is available to advise graduate theses related to secondary or post-secondary English pedagogy and writing studies.