He has directed writing programs in China and Egypt and won the University of North Carolina Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001. Victor Villanueva is Regents Professor in the English Department at Washington State University. He is the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and has been awarded the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship and the Arts; the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award; and the first National Council of Teachers of English Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award, among many others.