Speaker list
Our Speakers for the Physical Session
Santosh Khadka, PhD
California State University, Northridge, United States
Dr. Santosh Khadka is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Northridge. He earned his PhD from Syracuse University in the United States. He has published a monograph, and co-edited 6 books and 2 special issues of a journal. His monograph, Multiliteracies, Emerging Media, and College Writing Instruction, and 3 co-edited books were published with Routledge in the years between 2018 and 2021. However, two of his co-edited collections, Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice (2019), and Professionalizing Multimodal Composition (2022) were published with the Utah State University Press. He has also published several scholarly articles in journals in the United States and Nepal, and co-edited two special issues of the Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies.
Rajendra Pangeni, PhD
Northwestern University, United States Nexus Institute of Research and Innovation (NIRI), Nepal
Dr. Rajendra Pangeni is a molecular oncologist with specialization in cancer Epigenetics. During his PhD and postdoctoral fellowships, he gained experience in epigenetics of brain, breast and lung tumors, brain metastases and stem cells. He is interested in Cancer genetics/epigenetics, cancer metastases, stem cells, experimental therapeutics and biomarker development. He has published research articles in numerous journals, including Cancer Cell, Clinical Epigenetics, Nature Communications, and Molecular Cancer Research
Bhushan Aryal, PhD
Delaware State University, United States
Dr. Bhushan Aryal is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Composition and Speech Program at Delaware State University. He develops and teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and composition. His research interests converse at the intersection of rhetoric and composition, digital writing, and South Asian rhetoric. He wrote his dissertation in 2018 on the constitutions of the United States, Nepal, and Cherokee Nation that he is converting into a monograph. He has published his work on the Mahabharat and continues to work on the epic. Currently, he also serves as an Associate Editor to WAC Clearinghouse’s CompPile Project. Originally from Western Nepal, Bhushan was educated at Tri-Chandra College, IACER, and West Virginia University.
Our Speakers for the Online Session
J. C. Lee, PhD
California State University, Northridge, United States
Dr. J. C. Lee is Associate Professor of English and Stretch Composition Coordinator at California State University, Northridge. Lee has worked on edited collections and special issues, and has presented at numerous conferences, including the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the Rhetoric Society of America’s (RSA) Summer Institute. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Popular Culture and Comparative Literature and Culture. Her research interests include multimodality and public writing, as well as rhetorics of contingency, professional development, and labor in academic environments.
Brody Bluemel, PhD
Delaware State University, United States
Dr. Brody Bluemel is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chairperson of the Department of Languages & Literatures at Delaware State University, United States. He also directs the MA in TESOL Program, and English Language Institute at the same university. He earned his doctorate in Applied Linguistics & Asian Studies from Penn State University. He has published multiple articles on his areas of research interest.
Shyam Pandey, PhD (ABD)
Purdue University, United States
Shyam Pandey is an incoming Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. Currently, a doctoral candidate in English at Purdue University, he has published several articles, and co-edited books titled Multimodal Composition: Faculty Development Programs and Institutional Change with Routledge, and Professionalizing Multimodal Composition with Utah State University Press in 2022, and a special issue of Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies on the theme of “Multimodal Composition in Multilingual Contexts” in 2021.
Iswari Pandey, PhD
California State University, Northridge, United States
Dr. Iswari Pandey is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Northridge. He is the author, among others, of the award-winning monograph, South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies. He directs CSUN’s Program in Business and Professional Communication and teaches courses in writing and rhetoric, postcolonial studies, rhetorics of the West/non-West, business/professional communication, global Englishes, Asian/Asian-American studies, composition pedagogy and theory, and research methods, among others.
Chetnath Gautam, PhD
Delaware State University, United States
Dr. Chetanath Gautam is Associate Professor and a research faculty in the Educational Leadership Graduate Program at Delaware State University. He has published several articles and book chapters, and his research interests include educational leadership issues and research approaches. He has published in global educational studies, educational leadership for social justice and democracy, and leadership in high-need schools. He is currently working on a Transformative Educational Research Methods book project. He received his doctorate in educational leadership with a concentration in curriculum and research in education. He was a member of the Barbara Jackson Scholar Network (a national fellowship program in the U.S.A.). His dissertation received national recognition with a Highly Commendable Research Award (UCEA-CSLEE, www.csleecenter.org).
Deb Jaisi, PhD
University of Delaware, United States
Dr. Deb Jaisi is Associate Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware and Co-Director of the Delaware Environmental Isotope System (EIS) Center. Following MS in Geological Sciences at Tribuhvan University, he did a second Masters in Geo-environmental Engineering at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and a PhD in Geological Sciences at Miami University, Ohio. He was an Interdepartmental Bateman Fellow at Yale University in Chemical Engineering and Geology and Geophysics and a National Science Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). He has a series of firsts: Gold Medalist at Tribhuvan University, Gold medalist (Deeswasmongkul Prize) in Asian Institute of Technology, First Geology Doctoral Award at Miami University, and first Interdepartmental Fellow at Yale. He has garnered more than $15 million in research funds in the past 11 years. He is an editor/associate editor of six different journals, has published 103 papers, and edited two books.
IMPORTANT DATES
Scholarly Publishing Summer Institute
June 2-3, 2022
HOST
Mahendranagar, Nepal
Ph: 977-099-520729
E-mail: info@fwu.edu.np
Web: www.fwu.edu.np