Angela Rona Estavillo
Graduate Assistant
- email: estaviar@jmu.edu
Building: Rose LibraryMSC: 1801 (Keezell Hall)
Departments: Instructional Design Department, Learning Innovations & Design Unit
Pronouns: She / Her / Hers
About me
I am a second-year M.A. student in the Department of English and the Graduate Assistant for Instructional Design at JMU Libraries. I earned my bachelor’s degree in English from Towson University, where I was a Writing Fellow supporting student writers in first-year seminar courses on the geography of food. Additionally, I worked as a Correctness Writing Expert for Proofit at Grammarly, helping to train and improve their AI-based digital writing assistant. During my time at JMU, I have served as a teaching assistant for courses in world literature and British literature. With a commitment to disability- and trauma-informed pedagogy, I seek to foster accessible, compassionate, and transformative engagement with language and literature.
My primary research interests are ecocriticism, postcolonialism, affect theory, disability studies, and Asian diaspora studies. I am also a poet whose work has been published in Cagibi, Cordite Poetry Review, and other journals. Outside of my academic and writerly pursuits, I enjoy strength training, sustainable fashion, narrative-rich video games, and the occasional cup of milk tea.
About Instructional Design Department
We are committed to building an engaging and inclusive learning environment at JMU by consulting with instructors and programs on instructional design (ID) for courses, curricula, and learning initiatives.
As instructional designers, our practices are informed by learning sciences, systems thinking, and pedagogy-driven community building. Centering equity, accessibility, and inclusion, we support instruction, learning, and scholarly work by providing instructional design solutions to enhance and sustain learners’ success. Our work simultaneously holds space to explore evidence-based emerging teaching and learning trends, tools, and methods while centering an ethic of care and a learner-centered experience
Request a consultation (select “Instructional Design” on the form) to design and develop inclusive and engaging assignments, courses, program orientations, learner-oriented resources, and curricula.
Learn more about our services.
About Learning Innovations & Design Unit
We create virtual and physical spaces, programs, and services for the JMU community to enhance, experiment with, and innovate in their teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Departments in this unit include Classroom Technology Services, Educational Technology Services, Instructional Design, Learning Technology Services, and Media Production & Makerspace Services.
To get started using our services, visit the Learning Innovations & Design Desk online or in Rose Library.