Victor Villanueva (born 1948) is an American academic and scholar in rhetoric and composition studies, serving the role of Regents Professor Emeritus at Washington State University.

[1][2][3] In 2009, Villanueva was the recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar's Award.

[4][5] Villanueva has written and edited a number of significant works on the topic of race, rhetoric, basic writing, and the social and political contexts of literacy education.

Victor Villanueva received his PhD in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Washington in 1986.

His book Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, which won the NCTE David H Russell Award for Distinguish Research in the Teaching of English[1] and the Conference on English Education (CEE) Richard Meade Award for Research in English Education,[6] explored problems related to race, marginalization, and identity within U.S. literacy education through the telling of his own autobiography as a Puerto Rican negotiating the American public school system.