Santosh Khadka

Curriculum Vitae
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Department of English
California State University Northridge, CA 91330
E-mail: santosh.khadka@csun.edu
Phone: 818 677 4337 (Office)
Website: santoshkhadka.net

Education

PhD in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric

Syracuse University, New York (2014)

Academic Employment

California State University Northridge

Director of Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam (May 2016-)
Assistant Professor of English (August 2014-)
Mellon Faculty Mentor (March 2016-)
Visiting Faculty, South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR)
Visiting Faculty, Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia (CASSA)
Faculty Mentor, English Department Teaching Associate Program
(January, 2016-January, 2017)

Syracuse University
Teaching Associate (April 2012-May 2015)
Writing Consultant (August 2008- May 2015)
Teaching Assistant (August 2008-April 2012)
Writing Center Administrator Intern (August 2012-August 2013)
Teaching Mentor (Fall and Spring 2011; Fall 2012)

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA

Writing Tutor (Jan. 2008 to August 2008)

Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Assistant Professor of English (August 2005 to Jan. 2008)

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

 Lecturer of English (Jan. 2005 to Jan. 2008)

Ekta Books Publishers and Distributors, Kathmandu, Nepal

Editor of Bilingual Dictionaries (Jan. 2005 to Jan. 2008)

Publications

Books and Special Journal

Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice. Edited collection with
J.C. Lee. University of Colorado/Utah State University Press. January 2018.

Designing and Implementing Multimodal Curricula and Programs. Edited

Collection with J.C. Lee. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. Forthcoming,
2018.

Narratives of the Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Outside and

Inside the Academy. Edited collection with Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt and
Keith Dorwick. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. Forthcoming, 2018.

Co-editor (with J.C. Lee) of Special Issue on Multimodality. Journal of Global

Literacies, Technologies and Emerging Pedagogies, Fall 2015.

Articles and Book Chapters

A Broad-based Multiliteracies Theory and Praxis for a Diverse Writing

Classroom. Computers and Composition: An International Journal.
Forthcoming, March 2018. (38 manuscript pages).

Worlds Apart: A Third World Academics Navigation of US Higher Education

and Citizenship. Narratives of the Marginalized Identities in Higher
Education: Outside and Inside the Academy. Eds. Santosh Khadka, Joanna C.
Davis-McElligatt and Keith Dorwick. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.
Forthcoming, 2018. Chapter Accepted for Publication.

Extending the Conversation: Theories, Pedagogies, and Practices of

Multimodality, an introductory chapter with J.C. Lee for Bridging the
 Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice. University of Colorado/Utah State
University Press. Forthcoming, 2018. (15 Manuscript Pages)

Perspectives on Designing and Implementing Multimodal Curricula and

Programs, an introductory chapter with J.C. Lee for Designing and
Implementing Multimodal Curricula and Programs. Routledge: Taylor &
Francis Group. Forthcoming, January 2018. (17 Manuscript Pages)

Possibilities and Limits of a Multiliterate Composition Pedagogy in a

Globalized Writing Classroom. Practical Pedagogies: Engaging Domestic and
International Students in Translingual & Translocal Writing. Eds. Suzanne
Blum Malley, Alanna Frost, and Julia Kiernan. WAC Clearinghouse. Chapter
Accepted for Publication (25 manuscript pages).

Making the Outside Visible. an introductory chapter with Joanna Davis-

McElligatt and Keith Dorwick for Narratives of the Marginalized Identities in
Higher Education: Outside and Inside the Academy. Edited collection with
Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt and Keith Dorwick. Routledge: Taylor & Francis
Group. Forthcoming, 2018.

Editorial. Journal of Global Literacies Technologies, and Emerging

Pedagogies. Special Issue on Multimodality. Coauthored with J.C. Lee. 3.1
(2015). Web. http://joglep.com/index.php/archives/volume-3-issue-1/

Copyright Legislations and public good: A Multinational Survey. Literary

Studies 28 (March 2015): 85-96. Print.

(Teaching) Essayist Literacy in the Multimedia World. Composition Forum

32 (Fall 2015).

Geopolitics of Grants Writing: Discursive and Stylistic Features of Not-for-

Profit Grant Proposals in Nepal and the USA. Journal of Technical Writing and
Communication 44.2: 139-168.

Reformulating Notion of Intercultural Communication Style within a

Rhetorical Frame. Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6.1 (December, 2013):
1-16.

Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere: Tactics and Facebook. Emerging

Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social
 Media and Globalization. Eds. Marohang Limbu and Binod Gurung. Hershey,
PA: IGI Global, November 2013. 206-216.

In/variability of Research Methods/Methodologies of Transnational

Compositionists. Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies and Emerging
Pedagogies 1.2 (March 2013): 71-88.

Rhetoric of World Englishes, Writing Instruction Around the World and a

Global Outlook for the US Composition Classroom. Journal of Global
Literacies, Technologies and Emerging Pedagogies 1.1. (October 2012): 21-37.

Feasibility of Freewriting Heuristic in the English as a Second Language

(ESL) Classroom. Molung Research Journal: A Publication of Research
Articles on Multidisciplinary Issues 3.1 (Jan. 2012): 131-137.

Bilingual Dictionaries

Assistant Editor. Ekta Comprehensive English-Nepali Dictionary. (Editors

Shreedhar P. Lohani, and Rameshor P. Adhikary). Kathmandu, Nepal: Ekta
Publishers, 2011. (1,938 pages)

Associate Editor. Ekta Brihat Nepali-Angraji Kosh (Ekta Comprehensive

Nepali-English Dictionary). (EditorsShreedhar P. Lohani, and Rameshor P.
Adhikary). Kathmandu, Nepal: Ekta Publishers, 2011. (1,019 pages)

Research Contribution

Contributing Researcher, Citation National Project (Principal Researchers:

Rebecca Moore Howard and Sandra Jameson)

Keynote, Invited Talks and Workshops

Academic Values of Digital Portfolios, invited presentation for HSI/Mellon

Fellows, HSI Pathways to the Professoriate Program at CSUN, September 22,
2017.
Nepal Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 13-28, 2017. Program
Coordinator and Subject Specialist. Sponsored by United States Educational
 Foundation, Nepal and University Grants Commission, Nepal.
http://dhnepal.iacer.edu.np/subject-specialists.html
Mauros class invited lecture
Dreams Chasing Us, invited talk at United States Education Foundations Get
Inspired Series in Kathmandu, Nepal, August 8, 2016.
Multiliteracies Approach to Education, keynote speech at Transformations:
The Summer 2016 Education Summit at Midwestern University, Nepal, July 24-
26, Nepal.
Communication Style and Global Workplaces, invited Talk at Literary
Association of Nepal, Kathmandu, August 10, 2016.
Working with Sources: Strategies for Developing Your Research Agenda,
workshop at Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal,
August 9, 2016 (with Dr. Gene Hammond and Dr. Shyam Sharma, Stony Brook
University, New York).
Geopolitics of Grant Writing: Strategies of Non-profit Grant Writing, invited
talk at University of Delhi, India, August 6, 2016.
Academics in the USA: System of Education, American Classroom, and
Succeeding in College, invited talk at Pre-Departure Orientation, United States
Education Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal, July 20, 2016.
Writing in the Profession, Communities, and Across the Curriculum, invited
panelist at Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, July 18,
2016 (with Dr. Katherine Silvester, Dr. Shyam Sharma and Dr. Tika Lamsal).
A Materialist Approach to Digital Writing. A half-day Workshop at Institute of
Advanced Education, Communication, and Research (Pokhara University) in
Kathmandu, Nepal, July 15, 2016.

Selected Conference Presentations

National

Panelist, Transnational Writing Standing Group sponsored panel, A Study of

Writing Practices in Tertiary Education in Romania, Nepal, India, and
Colombia, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland,
March 15-18, 2017.
 Panelist, Engaging the Transnational: A Multi-Sited Study of Discourse about
Writing in Tertiary Education in Romania, Nepal, India, and Colombia, Writing
Research Across Borders IV Conference, Bogota, Colombia, February 15-18,
2017. Presented Virtually.

Panelist, Transitions in the Transnational Turn: Scholarship, Program

Administration, and Pedagogy, Rhetoric Society of America Conference,
Atlanta, May 26-29, 2016.

Workshop co-chair, Engaging the Global in the Teaching of Writing: Critical

and Multiperspective Approaches, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Houston, April 6-9, 2016.

Teaching Essayist Literacy in the Multimedia World, Conference on College

Composition and Communication, Houston, April 6-9, 2016.

Multiliterate Composition Framework for Public Work of Composition.

Conference of College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, March 13-
16, 2013.

Reframing Identifications through Global-digital Confluence. Rhetoric

Society of America Bi-annual Conference, Philadelphia, May 25-28, 2012.

Writing Instruction Variations across Borders: Implications for U.S.

Composition Classrooms. Writing Education Across Borders Conference,
Days Inn Penn State, State College, PA. September 30-October 1, 2011.

Public Good": Even not an Afterthought in Copyright Legislations across

Nations. Conference of College Composition and Communication, Atlanta,
April 6-9, 2011.

Discursive and Stylistic Variations in Grants Proposal Writing in Nepal and

the USA: An Intercultural Technical Communication Case Study. Writing
Across Borders Conference, George Mason University, Virginia, February 17-
20, 2011.
 Quest for Ideal Copyright Legislation: A Survey of Public Good Provision
Across Four Countries. Conference on Intellectual Property, Iona College,
New York, April 30-May 1, 2010.

Rhetoric of World Englishes and its Implication to Composing Practices.

Conference of College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY,
March17-20, 2010.

Local

Guest Lecture on Digital Tools in Dr. Mauro Carassais LRS 491: Capstone
Seminar, March 8, and October 26, 2016.
Re-inventing Life: Sponsoring Literacies for Bhutanese Refugees in Syracuse,
NY. Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research, Syracuse University,
New York, May 5, 2012.
Why E-Portfolio. Syracuse University Teaching Assistant Orientation,
Syracuse University Graduate School Programs, 31st January, 2012.
Evaluating a Globalized Classroom: How to Respond to and Grade Domestic
and International Students Equitably? Syracuse University Future
Professoriate Program Conference, Hamilton, NY, May 17-18, 2012.
Panelist (with Fumilayo Edna Showers and Missy Watson), American
Classroom. Syracuse University Teaching Assistant Orientation Program,
August, 2011.
Panelist, Roundtable with Nonnative Speaking Writers. ESL Seminar Series,
Syracuse University Writing Center, February 9th, 2011.

Departmental

Organizer of Workshop on Composing with Web. May 2, 2016.

Organizer of Workshop on Composing with Video. Feb. 29, 2016.
Faculty Speaker, Transaction & Transfer: Globalization, Multiliteracies &
Higher Education, a panel of new faculty members, sponsored by English
Department, 15 April 2015
Presenter (with Dr. JC Lee), Going Multimodal in Stretch Classrooms,
Composition Faculty Fall Orientation, 20 August, 2015.
Presenter (with Dr. Sharon Klein), Working with Multilingual Student Writers,
Composition Faculty Spring Orientation, 15 January 2015.
 Presenter, New Courses for the Rhetoric and Composition Program,
Composition Faculty Spring Orientation, 15 January 2015.
Panelist (with Dr. Lois P. Agnew), Teaching Values: Case Studies.
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Community Day, The Writing Program,
Syracuse University, August 19, 2013.
CCR Panel with Dr. Paul Kei Matsuda, The Writing Program Spring
Conference. Syracuse University April 4-5, 2013.
Panelist (with Nicole Howell and Missy Watson), Cultivating Work and Life
in CCR. Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Community Day, The Writing
Program, Syracuse University, August 22, 2011.
Breakout group Leader, Reimagining Student Writer. Fall Conference, The
Writing Program, Syracuse University, August 23, 2012.
Panelist (with Dr. T J Geiger, Ben Kuebrich, and Caroline Ostrander),
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Colloquium, The Writing Program,
Syracuse University, New York, March 1, 2012.
Breakout group leader, Public Writing workshop with Nancy Welch, The
Writing Program, Syracuse University, May 6, 2011.
Breakout group Leader, Writing in Classroom Spaces. Spring Conference
2010: Writing Spaces, The Writing Program, Syracuse University, April 7-8,
2010.

Courses Taught

California State University, Northridge

ENGL 600A: College CompositionTheory and Pedagogy 1 Section

English 600A is the first course in English Departments Teaching Associate program. It is designed as a
teacher-training seminar to prepare newly selected TA candidates to teach First-Year Composition, focusing on
English 114A, Approaches to University Writing. The course addresses both theoretical and pedagogical
issues associated with the teaching of Composition today, including theories of process, social constructionism,
translingual writing, and emerging media, as well as key elements of classroom teaching, such as assignment
design, lesson planning, evaluation, and classroom management.

ENGL 600B: College CompositionTheory and Pedagogy 1 Section

English 600B is the second course in English Departments Teaching Associate program. It is also designed as a
teacher-training seminar to prepare TAs to teach second course in First-Year Composition, English 114B,
Approaches to University Writing. As 600A, this course also addresses both theoretical and pedagogical
issues associated with the teaching of Composition today, including theories of assessment, genre, and digital
media, as well as key elements of classroom teaching, such as project design, lesson planning, evaluation, and
classroom management.

ENGL 205: Business Communication in its Rhetorical Contexts 3 Sections

 English 205 focuses on the development of critical reading, research, writing, and technology skills in the
context of business. The course has four major elements: a) rhetorical reading, research, and writing, b)
collaboration and presentation, c) understanding and analyzing diverse audiences, and d) ethical considerations
in business communication.

ENGL 113A/B: Approaches to University Writing 4 Sections

Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of
logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate
gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the
elements of prose style.

ENGL 654: Literacy, Technology, and Diversity 1 Section

This course incorporates topics both from literary studies and rhetoric and composition, and focuses primarily
on new media composition, grant writing, sci-fi movies, postcolonial fiction, and diversity as it pertains to
creative and academic writing practices.

DW 459: Digital Writing 1 Section

This course engages the expanded notion of writing, and focuses specifically on the composing practices with
multisemiotic resources, such as sound, video, images, web, graphics, and animation, in the digital world. It also
deals with social media, digital identity, and ethical issues surrounding the digital production of texts.

ENGL 115: Approaches to University Writing 1 Section

Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of
logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate
gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the
elements of prose style.
ENGL 114A/B: Approaches to University Writing 3 Sections

Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of
logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate
gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the
elements of prose style.

ESW 99: Writers Workshop 6 Sections

This course is designed to give students opportunities for introspection, collaboration, summarizing, responding
to peers, and receiving feedback on reading and writing assignments.

Syracuse University

WRT 307: Professional Writing 2 Sections

This course engages a variety of professional genres that are frequently encountered in the workplace, and
teaches students to analyze audiences and situations, manage a sustained, multiple product project, work
collaboratively, design and produce texts and graphics, conduct basic usability testing, and develop effective
oral presentations.

WRT 205: Critical Research and Writing 8 Sections

This course engages the rhetorical strategies, practices, and conventions of critical academic
researched writing.
 WRT 205: Critical Research and Writing (Online) 1 Section

Online version of WRT 205 that focuses on the rhetorical strategies, practices, and conventions

of critical academic researched writing.

WRT 120/220: Writing Enrichment 2 Sections

These courses are independent studies in writing, and students are required to work one-on-one with a
professional writing consultant for a minimum of 12 hours during a semester to complete them.

WRT 105: Academic Writing 2 Sections

This course focuses on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially analysis and
argumentation, and engages students in the study and practice of writing processes, including critical reading,
collaboration, revision, editing, and the use of technologies.

Pokhara University
Eng. 550.3 Theories of Globalization 2 Sections

The course examines the themes, locations and representations of globalization from a variety of theoretical
perspectives and invites students to investigate how the processes of globalization are embodied in specific texts
and contexts.

Eng. 455.1 Discourses in the Disciplines 3 Sections

This course studies how multiple discourses of literature, philosophy, history, and politics come together to
construct certain discourse communities, and seeks to introduce students to the wide range and variety of
English prose, leading to a critical awareness of the textuality of writing, which they can apply to their own
writings.

Eng. 440.1 Environmental Composition 2 Sections

This course takes an environmental approach to writing and studies literature in order to learn about the relation
between nature and culture.

Eng. 425.1 Critical Approaches to Literature 2 Sections

This course attempts to orient the students towards various critical schools and approaches including traditional
criticism, formalism, psychoanalysis, mythological and archetypal criticism, feminist criticism, cultural studies,
Marxist criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, and reader response criticism, and encourages them to
apply those critical approaches to particular literary texts.

Tribhuvan University

Eng. 508.2 Non-Western Studies 1 Section

This course seeks to provide a countervailing balance to the primacy of the Western ideas and literature in the
academic courses of universities of Nepal and elsewhere, therefore, integrates contribution of the diverse range
 of societies from China, Korea and Japan to Indian subcontinents to Persian and Arabian world to Africa, the
Caribbean and the native settlers of the America to ideas, culture and literature of the world.

Eng. 505-1 A General Survey of British and

American Fiction 2 Sections

This course is designed to offer students a critical-chronological survey of British and American fiction by
examining them from a variety of theoretical perspectives: Marxism, Gender Studies, Deconstruction, Cultural
Studies, Formalism, Reader Response criticism, and minority and post-colonial studies.

Eng. 504-1 Creative Writing 1 Section

The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the processes involved in producing different types of
creative texts ranging from poetry, fiction, and dram to films in order to scaffold their creativity in composing
similar or different texts.

Eng. 502-1 Critical Theories from Plato to Post-moderns 2 Sections

This course surveys critical theories from ancient Greek time to the present. Therefore, the course comprises of
selections from canonical critical texts from classical Greece to modern Western Criticism.

Consulting

Syracuse University Writing Center

Spring 2013; Fall 2012; Spring and Summer 2009

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Writing Center

Spring, 2008; Summer 2008

Services

Department
California State University, Northridge
Faculty Mentor, English Department Teaching Associate Program, Spring 2015-
Member, Business Communication, 2016-2017
Member, Composition Committee, 2016-2017
Faculty Evaluator, Subject Matter Exit Interviews, 2014-Present
Interviewer, Teaching Assistant Selection Committee, 2014-Present
Creator and Administrator of Writing and Rhetoric Social Media Initiative at
CSUN, which includes a blog/website, a Facebook Group, a Facebook page, and
a Twitter account. This initiative launched in the Spring this year aims to increase
 visibility and web presence of rhetoric and writing minor, and rhetoric and
composition option in MA in English.
Chair, Amenities Committee, 2015-2016
Member, Composition Committee, 2015-2016
Member, Amenities Committee, 2014-2015
Member, Composition Committee, 2014-2015
Panel Moderator, Associated Graduate Students of English Conference, Spring
2015
Judge, most accomplished student essay in third section (Critiquing
Consumerism) of 22nd edition of Wings, Fall 2015. Wings is a collection of most
distinguished student essays at CSUN.
Syracuse University, New York
Writing Center Administrator Intern
-Developed and administered professional development sessions for
writing consultants and teachers
-Developed writing resources for writing consultants/teachers,
undergraduate students, graduate students, and multilingual students
-Administered the Writing Centerput together WC schedule, oversaw
online and face-to-face consulting sessions in the WC, and resolved
issues with WC Online software
-Helped develop undergraduate (WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant
Practicum), and graduate (WRT 600: Writing and Rhetoric for
Multilingual Writers of English) courses administered by the Writing
Center
Member, Lower Division Committee. The Writing Program, Syracuse
University Fall 2010 and Spring 2011.
Member, Writing Center Committee. The Writing Program, Syracuse
University Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.
Member, Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University, 2010-2012
Member, AARG Project (Assigning, Responding, Reading and Grading
Student Writing), The Writing Program, Syracuse University, Spring
2012.
Member, Online Reading Group, The Writing Program, Syracuse
University, Fall 2012.
Member, Online Group on Working with Students with Disabilities, The
Writer Center, Syracuse University, Spring 2013.

University
 California State University Northridge
Director of Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam, May 2015-
Mellon Faculty Mentor, HSI Pathways to the Professoriate Project, August
2015-
Member, Writing Council, May, 2016-
Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Extended Learning, 2015-
Faculty Liaison, International Education Council, 2015-
Member, Multilingual Writers Group, 2014

Contributor, MyCSUNtablet Initiative, Fall, 2015

Syracuse University, New York

Teaching Mentor

-Served as core faculty during the Teaching Assistant Orientations

Programs
-Served as a small group leader and mentor to approximately 300 new
TAs
-Served as a session planner and presenter
-Participated in the development and implementation of TA program
activities throughout those academic years

Community

Taught a service learning course, ENGL 654: Literacy, Diversity, and

Technology in the Spring, 2015. Students wrote grants for We LIFT LA,
a local NGO at Northridge.
English as a Second Language Teacher for Bhutanese Refugees in
Syracuse, administered by Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Fall
2011
Tutor, Syracuse University GED Tutoring Program at Auburn
Correctional Services, NY administered by the Writing Program,
Syracuse University, Fall 2011.

Profession
Reviewer, Composition Forum
Reviewer, Pathways: A Journal of Humanistic & Social Inquiry
 Social Media Committee Member, Transnational Composition Standing
Group @ Conference on College Composition and Communicationthis
committee administers a blog, a Facebook Group, and a Twitter account
on behalf of this national Special Interest Group.
Guest Editor, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging
Pedagogies
Reviewer, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging
Pedagogies, and Sage Open.
Mentor in Mentoring @Cs, a program organized by The Council of
Writing Program Administrators Graduate Student Organization at
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida,
March 18-21, 2015.
Mentees:
Dr. Katherine Silvester, Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University
Mariya Tseptsura, doctoral student, University of New Mexico
Editor of Bilingual Dictionaries
-Collected and compiled Nepali/English vocabularies from various
primary and secondary sources
- Translated those vocabularies into equivalent English/ Nepali
vocabularies
-Edited giving the translation precision and exactness, and finally
published the bilingual dictionaries (Nepali to English, and English to
Nepali)
Proposal Reviewer, Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research,
Syracuse University, New York, 5th May, 2012.

Professional/ Pedagogical Training and Workshops

Organized
Workshop on Composing with Web. English Department, California
State University Northridge, May 2, 2016.
Workshop on Composing with Video. English Department, California
State University Northridge, Feb. 29, 2016.
Understanding and Responding to Multilingual Student Needs.
Syracuse University Writing Center, March 4, 2013.

Attended
 Digital Media and Composition Institute. The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH. June, 2012.

Tech Camp. Syracuse University, New York. May, 2011.

Diploma in Computer Applications. Shikhar Computer Institute, Nepal.

August, 1996-August, 1998.

Research as Rhetorical Inquiry. Workshop Participant. The Writing

Program. Syracuse University. Oct 25, 27. 2010.

Abolition and Radical Pedagogy session by Angela Davis. Workshop

Participant. Democratizing Knowledge. Syracuse University. Oct 12,
2010.

Conversations on Grading. Workshop Participant. The Writing

Program. Syracuse University. Oct 4, 11, 2010.

WRT 307 Workshop Series, a series about teaching Professional

Writing. Workshop Participant. The Writing Program. Syracuse
University. Spring. 2010.

WAC Conversation with Vicki Tolar Burton. Workshop Participant.

The Writing Program. Syracuse University. Nov 2. 2009.

Honors, Grants, Awards

College Composition and Communication Research Initiative Grant.

$10,000 (With Dr. Ligia Mihut, Dr. Shyam Sharma, and Sara Alvarez).
National Council of Teachers of English, Spring 2016.

Faculty Development Grant, English Department, California State

University Northridge, Fall 2016.

Faculty Writing Boot Camp. California State University, Northridge,

Summer 2015.
 Community Engagement Curriculum Development Grant. California
State University, Northridge, Spring 2015.

Summer Research Grant, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Doctoral

Program, Syracuse University, New York, 2012

Bedford/St. Martins Scholarship to attend Digital Media and Composition

Institute at Ohio State University, 2012.

Certificate in University Teaching, The Graduate School, Syracuse

University, New York, 2012

Summer Research Fellowship, The Graduate School Syracuse University,

New York, 2011

Nominated Member by Golden Key International Honor Society for

academic excellence, 2010

Nominated by Phi Beta Delta for academic excellence, 2010.

Deans List Award for exceptional academic excellence by Pokhara

Univeristy, Nepal in 2004
Numerous other merit awards and scholarships

Professional Affiliations

Rhetoric Society of America

Conference of College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English