Kristina Gutierrez is Professor at Lone Star College-Kingwood, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Composition and Rhetoric from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include place-based visual rhetoric, museum rhetoric, and Renaissance studies. She has published work focusing on place-based visual rhetoric in murals and architecture. In addition, she is coeditor of the journal, Open Words: Access and English Studies.