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)
MA in English
Pokhara University, Nepal (2004)
BA in English
Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2001)

Academic Employment
California State University Northridge
Assistant Professor of English (August 2014-)
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
Articles and Book Chapters
(Teaching) Essayist Literacy in the Multimedia World. Composition Forum 32
(Fall 2015): n. pag.Web.
Special Issue on Multimodality. Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies and
Emerging Pedagogies 3.2 (Fall 2015). Co-edited with Dr. JC Lee. Web.
Copyright Legislations and public good: A Multinational Survey. Literary
Studies 28 (March 2015): 85-96. Print.
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.

Under Review
Edited CollectionFrom the Outside: Narratives from the Othered in the
Academy (with Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt and Keith Dorwick), reviewing chapter
manuscripts from 16 contributors.
Teaching Multiliteracies in a Sophomore Writing Class. Syllabus Journal
(revised and resubmitted), June, 2015.
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. Chapter Draft submitted, Fall, 2015.

In Progress
On Their Own Terms: A Study of Writing Discourses in Colombia, India, Nepal, and Romania
(with Ligia Mihut, Barry University; Sara Alvarez, University of Louisville; and Shyam P.
Sharma, SUNY Stony Brook). Proposed International Study of Writing to be launched from
Spring, 2016.

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 NepaliEnglish 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)

Selected Conference Presentations

National
Forthcoming, panelist, Transitions in the Transnational Turn: Scholarship,
Program Administration, and Pedagogy, Rhetoric Society of America Conference,
Atlanta, May 26-29, 2016.
Forthcoming, 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.
Forthcoming, Teaching Essayist Literacy in the Multimedia World, Conference
on College Composition and Communication, Houston, April 6-9, 2016.
How WPAs can Support Cultivation of Multiliterate Capabilities in Students.
The Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Boise, Idaho, July 1219, 2015.
An Experiment with a Multiliterate Composition Pedagogy in Globalized Writing
Classrooms. Research Network Forum at Conference on College Composition
and Communication, March 18-21, 2015.

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.
Remediation, Media Convergence, and (Teaching) an Expanded Notion of
Writing. Writing Across Border Conference, Paris, Feb. 19-22, 2014
(Forthcoming).

Local
Presenter, Re-inventing Life: Sponsoring Literacies for Bhutanese Refugees in
Syracuse, NY. Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research, Syracuse
University, New York, May 5, 2012.
Presenter, Why E-Portfolio. Syracuse University Teaching Assistant Orientation,
Syracuse University Graduate School Programs, 31st January, 2012.

 Presenter, 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
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 654: Literacy, Technology, and Diversity

1 Section

Thiscourseincorporatestopicsbothfromliterarystudiesandrhetoricandcomposition,andfocusesprimarilyon
newmediacomposition,grantwriting,scifimovies,postcolonialfiction,anddiversityasitpertainsto
creativeandacademicwritingpractices.

DW 459: Digital Writing

1 Section

Thiscourseengagestheexpandednotionofwriting,andfocusesspecificallyonthecomposingpracticeswith
multisemioticresources,suchassound,video,images,web,graphics,andanimation,inthedigitalworld.Italso
dealswithsocialmedia,digitalidentity,andethicalissuessurroundingthedigitalproductionoftexts.

ENGL 205: Business Communication in its Rhetorical Contexts 1 Section

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 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.

ENGL 113A: Approaches to University Writing

2 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

3 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
Chair, Amenities Committee, 2015-2016
Member, Composition Committee, 2015-2016

 Member, Amenities Committee, 2014-2015

Member, Composition Committee, 2014-2015
Faculty Evaluator, Subject Matter Exit Interviews, 2014-Present

Interviewer, Teaching Assistant Selection Committee, 2014-Present

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.

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.
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
Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Extended Learning, 2015-2016
Faculty Liaison, International Education Council, 2015-2016
Member, Multilingual Writers Group, 2014
Contributor, MyCSUNtablet Initiative, Fall
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
Social Media Committee Member, Transnational Composition Special
Interest Group @ Conference on College Composition and Communication

this committee administers a blog, a Facebook Group, and a Twitter

account on behalf of this national Special Interest Group.

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
Reviewer, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging
Pedagogies, and Sage Open.
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
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

Community Engagement Curriculum Development Grant. California State
University, Northridge, Spring 2015.
Faculty Writing Boot Camp. California State University, Northridge, Summer
2015.
CCCC Research Initiative Grant (Submitted). Conference on College
Composition and Communication, 2016.
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
University, 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