This book develops a new theoretical approach to the study of writing by fusing key aspects of postmodern theory with the empirical sensibilities of composition studies and with that field’s long-standing investment in writerly agency.  Specifically, Inside the Subject describes the act of writing in terms of the event, a concept for mapping relations between the symbolic and the nonsymbolic. In addition, the book casts writers as both locations and catalysts for these relations. And finally, it develops a theory of identity to describe these relations, and these locations, in more detail than the field currently has at its disposal. Raúl Sánchez's current research project examines decolonial theory’s potential impact on Composition and Rhetoric. In October 2017, at the Conference on Community Writing, he took part in a roundtable discussing his co-edited book, Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy (Palgrave, 2016). Recent publications include that book, as well as Inside the Subject: A Theory of Identity for the Study of Writing (NCTE/CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2017) and—with Maria Rogal—“ Codesigning for Development ” (Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design, 2018). Nationally, he isva member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication as well as the Cultural Rhetorics Consortium. He is on the editorial board of Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space, and has served on the editorial board of his field’s flagship journal, College Composition and Communication . At UF, he is an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Latin American Studies, and  a member of the United Faculty of Florida. He teaches courses in argumentative writing, professional communication, and critical theory, and cultural studies.