PhD English | University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), 2023
Dissertation Title: Re-Rhetoricizing Global Souths Contrapuntally: Borderless Transnational Feminist Design Justice
MPhil English | Pokhara University, Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research Kathmandu (IACER), 2012
MA English | Tribhuvan University, 2008
CAREER
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Washington State University (WSU), Pullman | Fall 2023 –
Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research (IACER), Pokhara University | 2012 – 2017
Central Institute of Science and Technology (CIST), Pokhara University | 2010 - 2011
Bajra International College, Tribhuvan University | 2009 – 2010
PUBLISHED WORK
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly Monograph (1)
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2025). Gendering South Asia: Rhetorical Non-Phallic Bodies in the Global Capital. Routledge.
Edited Symposium (1)
Manis, Kathryn, Bibhushana Poudyal, & Patty Wilde. (2026). Emergency Archives: Investigating Rhetorical (Im) Possibility, Action, and the Impact of Precarious "Preservation" Under Crisis. Rhetoric Review, 1–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2025.2604368
Journal Articles (5)
Browne, Cheyenne, & Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2026). Queerlesque: Anticolonial and anti-heteropatriarchal love and abjection in (rural) queer performance. Peitho, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.37514/PEI-J.2026.28.2.11
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2025). Challenging Racism, Perpetuating Casteism: South Asian Moral Contradictions in the Diaspora. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 111(3), 515–519. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2025.2502338
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2021). "The "Nature" of Ethics While (Digitally) Archiving the Other." [Special issue on Unsettling the Archives.] Across the Disciplines, 18(1/2), 177-190. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2021.18.1-2.14
Poudyal, Bibhushana and Laura Gonzales. (2019). ""So You Want to Build a Digital Archive?" A Dialogue on Critical Digital Humanities Graduate Pedagogy." JITP Pedagogy. 15.
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2018). "Building Decolonial Digital Archives: Recognizing Complexities to Reimagine Possibilities." Xchanges, 13.2. https://xchanges.org/media/blogs/xchanges/14_1/poudyal_digitalarchives_bhformatted_4-9-19.pdf
Book Chapters (3)
Poudyal, Bibhushana and Mala Rai (2023). "The Smell of the Other and Self-Alienation: A Mani(fold)festo of Race, Ethnicity, and Fear of One's Own "Haunting Cooking Odors."" In Eileen E. Schell, Dianna Winslow, and Pritisha Shrestha (Eds.) Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts (pp. 71-83). Lexington Books.
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2022). "Counter, Contradictory, and Contingent Digital-Storytelling through Theories-Praxes of Community-Based Participatory Research and Minimal Computing." In Crystal VanKooten & Victor J. Del Hierro (Eds.), Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric (205-224). WAC Clearinghouse. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1541.2.09
Poudyal, Bibhushana, Tetyana Zhyvotovska, Estefania Castillo, Nora Rivera, Ann Shivers-McNair, Joy Robinson, and Laura Gonzales. (2020). "Interrogating what we mean by "Making": Stories from Women who Make in Community." In Maggie Melos and Jennifer Nichols (Eds.), Re-making the Library Makerspace: Critical Theories, Reflections, and Practices (pp. 203-224). Library Juice Press.
Conference Proceedings (1)
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2020). Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community? In Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC '20), October 03-04, 2020, Denton, TX, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416767
FORTHCOMING
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
Edited Collection
Poudyal, Bibhushana, Kathryn Manis, Ma-Ya, and Patty Wilde [Editors]. This is an Emergency (Archive): Recording, Remembering, Resisting, Refusing Under Catastrophe. [In conversation with WAC Clearinghouse.]
Book Chapters
Poudyal, Bibhushana. "Gaza as Sustainability Framework: Intellectual Praxis of Bearing Witness." In Kaylie Fougerousse, Joanna Gordon, & Katie Silvester (Eds.), Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies in the Community and Writing Classroom. WAC Clearinghouse. [In Press]
Journal Articles
Poudyal, Bibhushana. "Internationalist Guerrilla Feminism: Dismantling Empire in the Heart of the U.S. Higher Education." [Special issue on Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond.] Peitho. [Invited Publication; Under review]
Browne, Cheyenne and Bibhushana Poudyal. "Dugout Canoes as Archives in Motion: Creative, Embodied, and Activist Storywork on the Snake River." [Creative, Embodied, and Activist Approaches to Archival Research: Fostering a More Inclusive Future.] Writers: Craft and Context. [Proposal accepted; Under review.]
Book Chapters
Poudyal, Bibhushana. "Insurgent Digital Humanities with the Global South: Radically Undisciplining the Discipline." In Ujjwal Jana (Ed.), Digital Humanities in the Global South: Practices, Challenges and Possibilities. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming. [Invited publication]
Documentary Making
Lo, Buddha and Bibhushana Poudyal [Scriptwriters and Producers]. Voices from Sailung: Bonpo Rituals and Tamang Indigenous Knowledge. [In a post-production stage]
SCHOLARSHIP
ADDITIONAL SCHOLARLY PROJECTS
Professional blogging (1)
Poudyal, Bibhushana. (2019, December 1). "Digital Activism: Strategic, Inessential, and Inenarrable Alliances for an Ethical and Political Imperative." Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. [Open Source] [Selected as Editors' Choice for Digital Humanities Now]
Digital-Public Humanities Projects (2)
Poudyal, Bibhushana.Rethinking South Asia from the Borderlands via Critical Digital A(na)rchiving: Politics, Im/Possible Ethics, and Anti/Aesthetics (http://cassacda.com) | July 2018 – May 2023.
Poudyal, Bibhushana (Research, Writing, Theorizing, & Conceptualizing) and Rahul Malik (Coding & Programming). Global South Solidarities Anarchive (http://gssolidarities.org)
Book Translation (1)
An Arduous Path: A Story of Tibetan Refugee's Struggle by Shree Bhakta Khanal, Kathmandu: Shangri-La Pustak P. Ltd., 2020. [Co-translated with Karuna Karki, from Nepali to English]
Public Writing in Nepali Language (10 +)
Aparaajeeta Parijaat 2022 –
साम्र्याज्यबादि षड्यन्त्रमा हिजाब [English Translation: Hijab in an Imperialist Conspiracy] | Jan 2023.
साम्र्याज्यबादले ल्याएको "नारीवादी मुक्ति" को एउटा कथा [English Translation: A story of "Feminist Liberation" Brought About by Imperialism] | May 2022.
ThahaYatra 2022 –
सौन्दर्य प्रतियोगिता: सशक्तीकरण र वस्तुकरणको तानातानमा तङ्ग्रिरहेको विश्वव्यापी पितृसत्तात्मक पुँजीवाद [English Translation: "Beauty Pageants: Bolstering Global Patriarchal Capitalism in a Tug of War Between Empowerment and Objectification" | May 2022.]
Washington State University, Pullman | Fall 2023 – present
Assistant Professor of English
Affiliate Faculty of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Graduate Seminars
ENG 548: Seminar in Critical Cultural Theory: AI, Biopolitics, and Engineered Oppression | Spring 2026
ENG 548: Seminar in Critical Cultural Theory: Archives, Rhetoricity of Technologies, and Anti-Oppressive Interventions | Fall 2024 [Winner of the 2024 – 2025 Best Graduate Seminar of the Year Award]
ENG 591: Topics in Pedagogy: Comparative Antiracist Pedagogies | Spring 2024 [Winner of the 2023 – 2024 Best Graduate Seminar of the Year Award]
Graduate Independent Studies
ENG: 590: Research in English Studies | Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
Undergraduate Courses
ENG 362: Rhetorics of Racism | Spring 2024—Spring 2026
ENG 402: Technical and Professional Writing | Summer 2024
ENG 402: Technical and Professional Writing | Fall 2023
University of Texas at El Paso | Fall 2017 – Spring 2023
Co-instructor | Graduate Course
Advanced Critical Theory | Spring, 2020 | Instructor: Prof. Kate Mangelsdorf
Assistant Instructor | Undergraduate Courses
RWS 1302: Rhetoric and Composition 2 | Hybrid | Spring 2023
RWS 3359: Technical Writing | Online | Fall 2022
RWS 1302: Rhetoric and Composition 2 | Hybrid | Spring 2022
RWS 3359: Technical Writing | Online | Fall 2021
RWS 3355: Workplace Writing | Online | Spring 2021
RWS 3359: Technical Writing | Online | Fall 2020
RWS 1302: Rhetoric and Composition 2 | Hybrid | Spring 2019 – Spring 2020
RWS 1301: Rhetoric and Composition 1 | In-person | Spring 2018 – Fall 2018
Writing Center Consultant, Fall 2017
Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research Kathmandu (IACER) | 2012 – 2017
Graduate Thesis Supervisor | MPhil and M.A. | Fall 2014 – Spring 2017
Lecturer | Graduate Courses
History of Ideas | 2017
Literary Theory | 2016
Global Literary Theory | 2015
Western Tradition: Classicism to Modernism | 2014
History of Ideas | 2013
Literary Theory and Criticism | 2013
Co-instructor | Graduate Course
New Cosmopolitanism- South Asians in US | 2012 | Instructor: Prof. Arun Gupto
Central Institute of Science and Technology (CIST), Kathmandu | 2010 - 2011
Lecturer | Undergraduate Courses
Bachelor of Pharmacy: Technical Communication
Bachelor of Public Health: Technical Communication
Bajra International College, Kathmandu | 2009 – 2010
Lecturer | Intermediate Level Courses: English
LEADERSHIP
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Director of First-Year Composition | The University of Texas at El Paso | 2021 – 2023 (UTEP's FYC program won "2022-2023 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence")
Assistant Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies | The University of Texas at El Paso | 2020 – 2021
Board Member | Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research (IACER), Pokhara University | 2015 – present
Faculty Board and Honorary Overseas Digital Humanities Consultant | Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia (CASSA Research Center) | 2017 – 2019
Honorary Overseas Digital Humanities Consultant | South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR) | 2017 – 2019
Writing Center Coordinator | Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research (IACER), Pokhara University | 2015 - 2016
RESEARCH
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
Multilingual UX Lab | University of Texas at El Paso | 2018 - 2019
Women of Color in Computing Collaborative | 2018 – 2019
Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia (CASSA Research Center) | 2017 – 2019
South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR) | 2017 – 2019
Rethinking South Asian Studies | Advisors: Prof. Ashis Nandy, Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University), Prof. Arun Gupto (IACER), Dr. Robert Barnett (Columbia University) | 2013 - 2016.
SERVICE
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Organizer and Facilitator | Digital Storytelling and Global South Solidarities Fellowship Program: A South Asia Chapter | 2025 – 2026.
Organizer and Facilitator | Forum for Global South Solidarities and Memory Justice: A Seminar-Workshop with Nepal | Spring 2025.
Community member | Decolonial Solidarity Network Nepal | 2024 -
Founder | Global Souths Solidarities Teaching and Learning Group | 2023-
Vice President | Sajha Sahayatri Nepal [A Home for Under-17 Survivors of Sexual Violence] | 2022 – 2023.
Editorial Board, Writer, and Translator | Aparaajeeta Parijaat [A Grassroot Feminist Magazine in Nepali language] | 2022 – 2023.
Researcher and Writer | El Paso for Palestine @EPforPalestine | 2021 – 2022
Executive Member, Researcher, and Writer | Academic Revival of Indigenous Studies and Education | University of Texas at El Paso | 2019 – 2023
Member | Frontera Retórica - Student Chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) | University of Texas at El Paso | 2018 –
Trainer | Basic communication fundamentals for effective teachers–students' communication in English language | Timal Daada, Kavre District, Nepal | 2011.
Editor | Aadim 2001 Journal | Released in Two days seminar on leadership challenge in First Rotaract Multi District Conference, Nepal | Organized by Rotaract International | 2001.
Steering Committee Member | Two days seminar on leadership challenge in First Rotaract Multi District Conference, Nepal | Organized by Rotaract International | November 3-4, 2001.
Member | Rotaract Club of Kathmandu Mid Town | 2000 – 2004.
Volunteer and Researcher | Maiti Nepal: A Society Free from Trafficking of Children and Women | 2000.
RECOGNITION
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RECOGNITION
External Awards
Weiss 2025 Summer Fellow | College of Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University | Fully funded | 2025.
Chairs' Memorial Scholarship Award | Conference on College Composition and Communication | 2022.
Forum for the Future of Comparative, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Work: Graduate Student Funding Award | University of Utah | $200 | 2021.
Rhetoric Society of America Graduate Research Development Award | $450 | 2021.
Guest Presenter | Conference on Community Writing | Registration fee waiver | 2021.
Dorrance D. Roderick Endowment Summer Fellowship | Roderick Foundation | $2,000 | 2020.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Understanding Digital Culture Institute | $1,250 | 2020.
ATTW Amplification Award | $500 | 2020
ATTW Graduate Research Award | $500 | 2020.
ATTW Research Methods Workshop Scholarship | $200 | 2020.
Scholars for the Dream Travel Award | Conference on College Composition and Communication | $1,000 | 2019.
User Experience Fellowship | Kapor Center and the Coalition of Women of Color in Computing | $2,500 | 2019.
Emerging Woman Educator in Nepal | "Women's Leadership and Networking Reception" by the then US Ambassador to Nepal, Alaina B. Teplitz | 2017.
Finalist of International Open Poetry Contest | The International Library of Poetry | USA | 2002.
Internal Awards
Washington State University
Faculty Merit Prize | College of Arts and Sciences | $8,000 | 2025 – 2026.
WGSS Interdisciplinary Cross-listed Course Proposal and Revision Grants for ENG-362: The Rhetorics of Racism | $1,500 | 2025.
New Faculty Seed Grant | Project Title: Digital Storytelling and Global South Solidarities: Justice-Driven Open Scholarship in Humanities | $18,349 | 2025 – 2026.
Best Graduate Seminar of the Year Award ["ENG 548: Seminar in Critical Cultural Theory: Archives, Rhetoricity of Technologies, and Anti-Oppressive Interventions] | Voted by English Graduate Organization| 2024 – 2025.
Best Graduate Seminar of the Year Award [ENG-591: Topics in Pedagogies: Comparative Antiracist Pedagogies] | Voted by English Graduate Organization| 2023 – 2024.
Featured as the youngest Nepali Epic Writer in English Language in the following Nepali and South Asian media for the unpublished long poem, That Twelve Hour:
Television:
Nepal Television: Program Pratibha Parichaya | 11th October 1999
Nepal Television: Program Achel | 22nd December 1999
Young Asia Television | 2000
Magazines and Newspaper:
Jana Prahar, No. 9 | June 11, 2002. Bimochan, Bimarsha Publication Pvt. Ltd., No. 5 | May, 2001. Muna, Gorkha Patra Sansthan, No. 110 | February, 2000. Darpan, No. 8 | December 18, 2000. Wave, Himalmedia Pvt. Ltd., no.53 | May, 2000. Kantipur, Kantipur Publications Pvt. Ltd. | December 18, 1999. Gorakhapatra, GorakhaPatra Sansthan | December 18, 1999. The Himalayan Times, Himalmedia Pvt. Ltd., December 18, 1999.
MENTORSHIP
THESIS AND DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Washington State University
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Committee Chair:
MASTER'S THESIS
Grace No. Literary analysis of race/gender in media and methods for solidarity in activist groups. (Literature; Anticipated graduation in 2026).
Daman Khalid. World literature and the contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature. (Literature; Graduated in 2025).
Myra Henderson. Black Memoir as Intellectual Frameworks: Imagining A Revolutionary and Radical Shift in Society. (Literature; Graduated in 2025).
Genoveva Vega Gastelum. Rethinking Linguistic Justice Through Buen Vivir: Revitalizing My Mixteco And Its Integration to Rhetoric and Composition. (Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Graduated in 2025).
Second Reader/Committee Member:
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Corita Fernando. Labor and Aesthetics. (Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Anticipated graduation: Ph.D. – 2027).
MASTER'S THESIS
Briggette Hinnant. How to Mitigate Generative AI in FYC Classes. (Rhetoric and Writing Studies; M.A. Anticipated graduation – 2026).
Kevin Eloy Trujillo. Rhetoric of Justice in War. (Rhetoric and Writing Studies; M.A. graduated in 2025).
INDIVIDUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Committee Chair:
Cheyenne Browne. Relational Water Knowledges and Liberatory Sciences: Charting Anticolonial River Futures. (Anticipated graduation: PhD – 2028).
Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research (IACER)
MPHIL THESIS CHAIR:
Poshta Hari Baral (MPhil – 2017). South Asian diasporic women's bodily battle in the West for self-discovery in Manju Kapur's the Immigrant and Taslima Nasrin's French Lover.
Suresh Lohani (MPhil – 2016). LGBTI in Nepal, Pakistan, and India: Law, religion, and individuals.
Gita Devi Luitel (MPhil – 2016). Rhetoric of woman empowerment in Jhumpa Lahari's Lowland.
Arjun Dauliya (MPhil – 2016). Chronicling the history of brutal past: Comparative study of poetry of witness of Calolyn Forche and Krishan Sen Ichchhuk.
Padam Prasad Acharya (MPhil – 2016). Racism in J.M. Coetzee's Youth and Life and Times of Michael K.
Sabita Tumbabo (MPhil – 2015). Resistance against colonial representation, gender domination: Study of Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre.
Shreeram Silwal (MPhil – 2015). Rhetorical analysis of Barack Obama discourse: A discourse for racial harmony in "post-racial" America.
Radha Devi Sharma (MPhil – 2014). Religious texts as human management: Narrating and prescribing motivation, knowledge, and skill for women.
Sharada Kumari Poudel (MPhil – 2014). Gender Stereotypes in World of Women and Nari: A Critical Discourse Analysis.
Gopal Adhikari (MPhil – 2014). Resistance of women as a form of identity and power negotiation in Chandalika and Malini.
M.A. THESIS CHAIR:
Aayushma Sharma (M.A. – 2014). Fallen women in Victorian fiction: The study of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Kamal Raj Adhikari (MA – 2014). Position of Afghan women in A Thousand Splendid Suns.
SUPERVISION
GRADUATE INDEPENDENT STUDIES SUPERVISION
Washington State University
Daman Khalid. Pluralistic Local Pakistani Literatures Against Islamophobia, Colonialism, And Bourgeois Nationalism | Fall 2024
Valanci Villa. Antiracist Pedagogies | Spring 2025
GUIDANCE
MENTORING
Washington State University
Anastacia Garcia. On their PhD research project | 2025 – 2026.
Kevin Eloy Trujillo. On their PhD research project | 2025 – 2026.
REVIEWING
PEER REVIEW EXPERIENCES
Journal of Cultural Analytics | 2025.
Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2025.
Practices & Possibilities book series, WAC Clearinghouse | 2025 –
Composition Forum | 2023 – 2024.
Peitho Journal | 2021 –
Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy edited by Brian Croxall and Diane Jakacki | 2020.
Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric edited by Crystal VanKooten and Victor J. Del Hierro | 2020.
PRESENTATIONS
INVITED TALKS, LECTURES, AND WORKSHOPS
Speaker. "Internationalist and Intersectional Feminisms." FemScouts - WSU Women's Center. October 6, 2025.
Panelist. "Faculty Research Panel on Research Methods and Methodologies." English Department, WSU. April 23, 2025.
Keynote Speaker. "Shifting Perspectives: Transnational Feminisms and Liberation." WSU Graduate Women of Color Alliance. April 1, 2025.
Speaker. "CAH Seminar Series for First-Gen Graduate Students." Center for Arts and Humanities, WSU. March 28, 2025.
Speaker. "EGO Seminar on Academic Conferences." WSU English Graduate Organization. November 15, 2024.
Panelist. "Free Speech Panel for Faculty." WSU Pullman Community Equity Response Team. September 12, 2024.
Respondent to Keynote Speakers. "Connecting Communities: The First Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Conference." Center for Arts and Humanities, WSU. April 26, 2024.
"Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Borders and Bridges." Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships Working Group on Advancing Arts & Humanities, WSU. March 27, 2024.
Speaker. "CAH Seminar Series for First-Gen Graduate Students." Center for Arts and Humanities, WSU. February 23, 2024.
"Impossible Digital Archives: Ethics, Justice, and the Other." Department of English, UTEP. November 9, 2021.
"Building a Collaborative Network to Support Women of Color in User-Experience and Technology Design." Invited Keynote Presentation. Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC). October 7, 2020. [With the Women of Color in Computing Collaborative]
"Critical Digital Humanities and Participatory Design: A Workshop Series in Kathmandu, Nepal" | Co-organized with SAFAR & Co-conducted with Dr. Laura Gonzales | South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR) | Partially Funded by United States Education Foundation- Fulbright | Kathmandu, June – July 2019.
"Critical Digital Humanities and Participatory Design" | Co-conducted with Dr. Laura Gonzales | Limbuwan Study Center | Kathmandu, June 2019.
"Theory, Philosophy, and Cultural Criticism" | Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research | Graduate Seminars | 2013 – 2017.
"A Seminar-Workshop on Postcolonial Discourses: Locating Postcolonialism in South Asian Context through the Nature of Theory" | Co-conducted with Prof. Arun Gupto | Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research | For Graduate Faculties, Students, and Researchers across Universities in Nepal | Kathmandu, April – May 2014.
"A General Survey on British and American Fiction," | Graduate Seminar | St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu | Visiting Lecturer | January, 2010.
"Works of Taslima Nasrin" | Undergraduate Seminar | National College: Centre for Development Studies | Kathmandu, 2010.
"Basics of Academic Writing" | Undergraduate Seminar | Sushma Memorial College, Itahari | June, 2010.
WORKSHOPS
REFEREED CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
"Remixing the Writing Classroom for Social-Global Justice" | Conference on College Composition and Communication | Baltimore, MA. | April 2025. [With Prof. Lauren Rosenberg]
CONFERENCES
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Emergency Archives: Re-rhetoricizing Dignity as Contingent Upon Anti-Oppressive Praxis" | Rhetoric Society of America | Portland, OR | May 2026 [Forthcoming].
"Trauma in Everyday Archives: Exposing the "Crooked" Rhetoric of Oppression" | Rhetoric Society of America | Portland, OR | May 2026 [Forthcoming].
"Emergency Archives: A Radical Call for an Internationalist-Intersectional Shift in Feminist Rhetorical Praxis" | Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference | Durham, NH | July 2025.
"Gaza as Method: An Actionable Decolonial Feminist Intellectual Praxis of Bearing Witness to Genocide" | Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference | Durham, NH | July 2025.
"Transforming Academia with Global Souths through Transnational Feminist Design Justice Frameworks" | Conference on Community Writing | Denver, CO. | October 2023.
Roundtable discussion of "Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies: Practicing Hope and Growing Change Inside and Outside the Writing Classroom" | Conference on Community Writing | Denver, CO. | October 2023.
"Counter-storytelling: A feminist antiracist approach to dismantle colonial archival logics" | Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference | Atlanta, GA. | September – October 2023. [Panel Presentation]
Roundtable discussion of "Reckoning with Oppressive Food Systems: Dismantling Hierarchies and Disrupting Power Structures through Antiracist Food Justice Activism" | Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference | Atlanta, GA. | September – October 2023.
Roundtable discussion of "What's Next—Future Research and Assessment of Curricular Innovation" | Center for Faculty Leadership and Development | El Paso, TX. | August 2022. [With Composition Committee at UTEP]
"Reinvigorating First-Year Composition Through Curriculum Redesign & Implementation" | Center for Faculty Leadership and Development | El Paso, TX. | August 2022. [Panel presentation with Composition Committee at UTEP]
"Digital storytelling through community praxis: Possibilities of subverting epistemic violence of colonial discourses" | Computers & Writing | Greenville, NC. | May 2022.
"Rethinking Theories and Praxis of Technical and Professional Communication with Diverse Communities Through Design Justice Frameworks" | Conference on College Composition and Communication | Chicago, IL. | March 2022.
"Weaving narratives digitally in a South Asian context through community praxis: Precarities, complexities, and possibilities" | Conference on Community Writing | Washington, D.C.| October 2021.
"Rethinking South Asia via UX and Participatory Design: A Methodology for Building Dialogic Rooms in Digital Archives" | Graduate Research Award Panel | Association of Teachers of Technical Writing | June 2021.
"Building Digital Archive through Collaborative UX Research: Relationship-Building with the Community or Knowledge-Building about the Community?" | Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) | Denton, TX | 2020.
"Critical Digital Humanities: Theories and Praxes to Learn to Work with and Learn from a Space of Difference" | Keystone DH | Philadelphia, PA | July | 2020. [Conference subsequently canceled due to COVID–19 pandemic]
"An Invitation to Convince and a Punishment for Provoking: The "Nature" of Hospitality in Academia?" | Rhetoric Society of America | Portland, OR | May 2020. [Conference subsequently canceled due to COVID–19 pandemic]
"Rethinking South Asia via UX and Participatory Design: A Methodology for Building Dialogic Rooms in Digital Archives" | Graduate Research Award Panel | Association of Teachers of Technical Writing | Milwaukee, WI | March, 2020. [Conference transferred to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic]
"Building (with) Technology Critically and Ethically: Resistance against Traditional Privileged Non/Pedagogical Structure." | Association of Teachers of Technical Writing | Milwaukee, WI | March, 2020. [Conference transferred to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic]
"Menstruation: A "bloody and smelly" leakage threatening a patriarchal border between public and private spaces." | Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association | El Paso, TX | October, 2019.
"Digital Archiving Against the Grain: Possibilities and Complexities." | Conference on College Composition and Communication | Pittsburgh, PA | March, 2019.
"Critical Digital Archiving: A Non-Hierarchical Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration." | CASSA Annual Conference on Asian Studies | Kathmandu | Type of Presentation –Digital | October, 2018.
"What is (or is There) a Female Body?" | Rhetoric and Religion in 21st Century: Possibilities, Publics, Partnerships | Knoxville, TN | October, 2018.
"Digital Archiving Against (and Along?) the Grain." | NSA's Annual International Conference: Transforming Lives through Technology and Empowerment | Las Cruces, NM | March 2017.
"Rape and Bio-Invisibility." Rethinking South Asian Studies: New Regionalism | Kathmandu, February, 2013.
COORDINATION
WORKSHOPS COORDINATED
"Crossing Colonial-Imperial Borders: Designing the Writing Program with Global Souths" | FYC program | UTEP | April 2023.
"Diversity Statement" | FYC program | UTEP | October 2022.
"Nepali Cultural Studies II: Emotion, Memory, and Fear" | Conducted by Prof. Arun Gupto | IACER | Sept - October 2016.
"Rethinking South Asian Studies" | Conducted by Prof. Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University), Prof. Arun Gupto (IACER), Prof. Robert Barnett (Columbia University), and Charles Armstrong (Columbia University) | Kathmandu | August 2016.
"Nepali Cultural Studies- Series I" | Conducted by Prof. Arun Gupto | IACER | July 2016.
"Critical Theory and Practice for Teaching Undergrad" | Coordinator | Conducted by Prof. Arun Gupto and Dr. Puspa Damai | IACER | April 2015.
DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Decolonizing Comparative Global Rhetorics | Seminar led by Dr. Romeo García, Prof. LuMing Mao, and Dr. Hua Zhu | RSA, 10th Biennial Summer Institute | May 22 – 25, 2023
CGS Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project | University of Texas at El Paso | Fall 2021 – Spring 2022.
Forum for the Future of Comparative, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Work | University of Utah | Oct 1–2, 2021.
Minimal Computing | Penn DreamLab | Instructors: Dr. Alex Gil (Columbia University) & Marii Nyrop (New York University) | June 14 – 17, 2021
Rhetorical Ethics in an Unjust World | Seminar led by Prof. Diane Davis & Prof. Nathan Stormer | RSA, 9th Biennial Summer Institute | May 24 – 28, 2021
Bordering Rhetorics: Mobility, Containment, & the Boundaries of Critical Rhetoric | Workshop led by Dr. J. David Cisneros, Dr. Lisa Flores, & Dr. Michael Lechuga | RSA, 9th Biennial Summer Institute | June 1- 4, 2021
NEH Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research | University of Central Florida | Instructors: Dr. Anastasia Salter & Dr. Mel Stanfill | June, 2020.
Research Network Forum | "Rethinking South Asia via Critical Digital A(na)rchiving: An Im/possibility of Ethics" | Work-in-Progress | RSA | May, 2020. [Conference subsequently canceled due to COVID–19 pandemic]
Building Alternative Archives: Opportunities and Disruptions in Archival Methods | ATTW | March, 2020. [Workshop subsequently canceled due to COVID–19 pandemic]
Digital Editions: Start to Finish–Programming4Humanists | Instructors: Dr. Laura Mandell & Dr. Diane Jakacki | Center of Digital Humanities Research, Texas A & M | January - March | 2020.
Research Network Forum | "Digital Archiving Against the Grain: Possibilities and Complexities" | Work-in-Progress | CCCC | March, 2019.
Qualitative Research Network | "Digital Archiving Against the Grain: Possibilities and Complexities" | Work-in-Progress | CCCC | March, 2019.
Digital Dissertation Workshop | University of Texas at El Paso | October, 2018.
Mapping Mexican History: Digital Scholarship Workshops | University of Texas at El Paso | April 27, 2018.
Teaching Online Academy | University of Texas at El Paso | October, 2017
Nepal Digital Humanities Seminar Institute | Prof. Scott Kleinman (Director of CSUN Center for the Digital Humanities) | Institute of Advanced Communication Education Research Kathmandu (IACER) | June, 13- 28, 2017.
Rethinking South Asian Studies | Mentors: Prof. Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University), Prof. Arun Gupto (IACER), Prof. Robert Barnett (Columbia University), and Prof. Charles Armstrong (Columbia University) | Kathmandu | August, 2016.
Rethinking South Asian Studies | Mentors: Prof. Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University), Prof. Shreedhar Lohani (IACER), Prof. Arun Gupto (IACER), Prof. Robert Barnett (Columbia University), and Prof. Benjamin Conisbee Baer (Princeton University) | Kathmandu | July, 2014.
New Regionalism | Mentors: Prof. Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University), Prof. Shreedhar Lohani (IACER), Prof. Arun Gupto (IACER), and Prof. Robert Barnett (Columbia University) | Kathmandu | February, 2013.
DISCIPLINE SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
Assessor | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) | Government of Canada | 2025 – [Invited]
Mentor | Online Mentoring Program | Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition | 2025 – 26.
Advisory Board | The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics | 2024 –
Association of Rhetoric & Writing Reorganization Committee (ARWS) | 2023 –
2025 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Selection Committee | Conference on College Composition and Communication | 2024 – 2025.
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access (IDEA) Committee | Rhetoric Society of America | 2023 – 2025.
Stage 1 Reviewer | 2022 CCCC | 2021
Assistant Editor | Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition | 2020 – 2021
Stage 1 Reviewer | 2021 CCCC | 2020
Editor-at-Large | Digital Humanities Now | Spring 2020.
INSTITUTIONAL
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Washington State University
University Service
New Faculty Seed Grant Awards Committee | College of Arts and Sciences | 2026 –
Equity and Outreach Awards Committee | College of Arts and Sciences | 2024 – 2026.
Inaugural Outreach, Access and Strategic Initiatives Advisory Council | College of Arts and Sciences | 2024 –
Equity and Justice (EQJS) Community of Practice | College of Arts and Sciences | 2024 –
Departmental Service
Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Undergraduate Major Track Working Group | 2026 –
Anti Anti-Immigrant Policies and Rhetorics: Reading Group | 2026 –
Professional Writing Career Track Job Search Committee | 2023 - 2024
Professional Writing and Social Justice: Reading Group | 2023 – 2024.
Extra-Curricular University Service
Founding Faculty Advisor | Washington State University's Global South Solidarities Student Organization (WSU-GSS) | 2024 –
Organizer and Facilitator | Global South Solidarities, Digital-Multimodal Humanities, and Memory Justice: A Two-Day Workshop and Fellowship Program | Department of English | Fall 2024.
PhD Student Member | Rhetoric Search Committee | English Department at UTEP | 2021
Website Creator, Content Writer, Designer, and Photographer-researcher | Women of Color in Computing Collaborative | Multilingual UX Lab at the University of Texas at El Paso | 2018 – 2019.
MEMBERSHIPS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
ASA Sociology of Sex and Gender
North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP)
Design Justice Network
Algorithmic Justice League
INTERESTS
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Anti-Oppressive Theories, Criticism, and Pedagogies
Anti-Racist, Anti-Colonial, Feminist Literatures
Critical Archival Studies and Critical Digital Humanities
Cultural Criticism, Critical Theory, Rhetorical Theory, and Literary Theory
Decolonial Border Rhetorics/the Borderlands
Digital and Multimodal Writing and Rhetoric
First-Year Composition and Writing Program Administration
Grant Writing
International Technical Communication, UX, and Design Justice
Public Rhetorics and Writing
Rhetorical Policy Analysis
South Asian Studies
Transnational Feminism, Global (South) Rhetorics, and Comparative Rhetorics
