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Iswari Pandey

of Writing and Rhetoric

Research and Teaching Interests

Writing and literacy studies, transnational and postcolonial rhetorics, qualitative research, multimodal compositions, English in international contexts, translation, South Asian studies

Affiliate: South Asia Center of Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University


Bio

I was born and raised in Wami, a small village in the mid-hills of western Nepal. After completing my high school from the village, I joined the Birendra Campus of Tribhuvan University (TU) in Chitwan, central Nepal, for my undergraduate studies. Next, I studied English (mostly British) literature and criticism at TU’s Central Department of English in Kathmandu. I also taught a variety of courses in literature and theory at the same department before joining, in 2000, the University of Louisville’s graduate program in English. Earlier in Nepal, I also had the opportunity to work in various roles including that of a schoolteacher, a youth activist, and a print and radio journalist.


Once in Louisville, I found myself deeply interested in writing and rhetoric, for the field allowed me to combine, in my inquiries, my diverse interests ranging from cross-cultural (mis)communication and postcolonial studies to writing and rhetoric about social change. In 2006, I completed my Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition with a dissertation on immigrant literacy and cultural practices. I am using some of the materials from that study to prepare a book manuscript on migrant literacies and transnational cultures. In the fall of 2006, I moved to Syracuse, where I live with my wife, Aruna, and our two beautiful children, Manas and Melissa. I write, travel, or just surf the net when I can.


Current Research

I am interested in the practice and teaching of writing and rhetoric in the cultural and material contexts of globalization. My current projects:

  • Book-length work on migrant literacies and transnational cultures (manuscript in preparation for submission)
  • Composing globalisms/globalizing compositions
  • Work-in-progress: Cross-cultural rhetorics


Major Themes

writing, rhetoric, culture, literacy technologies, ethics in qualitative studies, politics of language, postcoloniality and transnationalism, immigration and globalization


Recent Publications

My work has appeared, among others, in Computers and Composition: An International Journal(2006); the Writing Center Journal (co-author, 2006); the Atlantic Literary Review (2006);Multimodal Compositions: A Resourcebook for Teachers (Hampton Press, 2007); Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (Hampton Press, 2007); Gaming Lives in the 21st Century: Literate Connections (McMillan Palgrave, 2007).


Select Awards, Grants, Honors

Ford Foundation Research Grant, 2007; William Tolley New Faculty Research Grant, 2007, Syracuse University; Outstanding Scholarship Award (co-author), International Writing Center Association; Chairs' Memorial Scholarship, Conference on College Composition and Communication/National Council of Teachers of English, 2006; The John Richard Binford Award (given to one graduating doctoral student), Graduate (Dissertation) Award and Graduate Dean’s Citation, Graduate School, University of Louisville, 2006; Maddox Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies (First Place), 2006; J. F. Bonnie Graduate Essay Award in Literary Criticism (First Place), 2004-05, 2003-04, University of Louisville; Regional Scholar Grants, USIS, Kathmandu and American Studies Research Center, India (1999); Best Paper Award American Studies Research Center (ASRC), India (Jan.-Feb 1999); Mahendra Vidya Bhusan, Gold medal and honor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1994)


Teaching

Recent Courses
Syracuse University: 2006-

Graduate seminar
CCR 760/Advanced Studies in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric: Literacy and the Transnational Imaginaries (Spring 2007)

Undergraduate
WRT 255: Written Argument: The Public Turn (Fall 2007)
WRT 205: Critical Research and Writing (Spring 2007)
WRT 105: Practices of Academic Writing (Fall 2006)