About ALES.

Our purpose

To stimulate theoretically informed and methodologically sustained writing research and writing teaching initiatives in higher education and professional contexts through the creation of a specific disciplinary space and a collaborative, critical mass of researchers and professors from various disciplines.

Established in 2016

ALES began its activities in Santiago, Chile, on October 17th, 2016, on the occasion of the First International Symposium of Teaching of Writing in Higher Education: The role of reading and writing in inclusion, equity, and educational quality, organized by the Universidad de Chile.

Steering committee

Dr. Federico Navarro
Chair - Founding member

Universidad de Buenos Aires; CONICET; Universidad de Chile
Argentina - Chile

Dr. Alma Carrasco-Altamirano
Founding member

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
​
​México
Dra. Elaine Espindola
Chair of III ALES Conference

​Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Brasil

Dr. Mónica Tapia-Ladino
Vice Chair - Founding member

Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Chile

Dr. René Venegas
Founding member

​Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Chile
​

Dr. María Ester W. Moritz
Founding member

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
​Brasil

MA. Soledad Montes
​​Secretary- Founding member

Universidad de Chile

​Chile

Dr. Estela Moyano
Founding member

​Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento; Universidad de Flores
Argentina 
​

​MA. Violeta Molina Natera
Founding member

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali)
​​Colombia

Network of institutions of higher education

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

​Argentina
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Universidad de Buenos Aires
​ Argentina
Universidade Católica Do Salvador
​
​​Brasil
Universidade Regional do Cariri

​Brasil
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla
México
Universidad Nacional Guillermo Brown
Argentina
Universidad de Antofagasta

​Chile
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco​
​
​Brasil
Facultad de Humanidades y Educación
Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida
Venezuela
Departamento de Humanidades
Universidad Nacional del Sur
​Argentina
​
Universidad de O'Higgins
Chile
Universidad Salesiana
Argentina
Centro Regional de Formación Profesional Docente de Sonora
​Mexico
Universidad del Desarrollo
​
Chile
Universidade Federal Da Paraíba

Brasil
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

​Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Jujuy
Argentina

Constitution ALES

Constitution ALES
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Founding Act ALES 

Founding act ALES
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Former steering committee

Dr. Natalia Ávila Reyes
Founding member- Steering committee member (2016-2018)-Organizer of the II Symposium 

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

​Chile