Curriculum vita 2016 2017-updated

Personal Academic CV

1. Priya Sirohi
Doctoral Student Purdue University
English Department 500 Oval Drive
Rhetoric and Composition West Lafayette IN 47907
PriyaSirohi.org [email protected]

Education

2015- Ph.D. in English, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
Expected Completion: 2020
Primary Area: Rhetoric and Composition

2015 M.A. in English, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
Primary Area: Rhetoric and Composition
• Thesis: Desi Rhetorics: Identity Practices of Indian-
Americans in Nested Publics
• Committee: Jennifer Bay (Chair), Patricia Sullivan,
Aparajita Sagar, and Thomas Rickert

2013 B.A. in English, Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO
Honors cum laude, Presidential Scholar
• Four-year merit-based full-tuition scholarship at private institution
• Awarded after rigorous application and double-interview process

Conference Presentations

May 2016 “The New ‘Arabs’: Rhetorics of South Asian American Racialization
in the Post-9/11 Media Maelstroms”, Rhetoric Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia

April 2016 “Rhetorics of South/Asian American Identity: Mapping Context,
Purpose, and Use”, Asian/Asian American Caucus Roundtable, Speaker and
Committee Member Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Houston, Texas

May 2015 “Islamic Women Activists in Sixth Century Islam” Twentieth Biennial Conference of
the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Tübingen, Germany, July-
August 2015
March 2015 “Mujadila: Women in the Hadith as Rhetorical ‘Weavers’ of Emergent Islam”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa Bay, Florida

Oct. 2014 “Cities and Rhetoric: The Alley Network Project as a Cultural Urban Rhetoric of
Community Organizing,” Cultural Rhetorics Conference, East Lansing, Michigan

2. Professionalization

Administrative Positions

Fall 2016 Honor’s College (NISO)
Writing Consultant
Purdue Writing Lab

• Responsible for helping retooling the coordinator position by re-envisioning
WAC/WID relationships between campus-wide faculty and the Writing Lab.
• Goal of creating sustainable relationships between the Writing Lab and
campus-wide faculty, and develop workshops more intentionally
• Will develop a close working relationship with the Director and Associate
Director of the Writing Lab (Harry Denny and Tammy Conard-Salvo,
respectively

Fall 2015 – Vice President Rhetoric Society of America
Spring 2016 Purdue Chapter

• Helped to jumpstart, coordinate, facilitate, and promote our Elocutio Speaker
Series, showcasing talks by Dr’s. Harry Denny, Julie Jung, and Amanda Booher
• Organized and promoted professionalization events for Purdue Rhetoric and
Composition Graduate students at Purdue University
• Assisted and promoted with fundraising efforts

Spring 2015 – NCTE/CCCC Asian/Asian American Caucus
Present Graduate Student Representative

• Crafted caucus website, including bibliography on caucus-related topics,
posting announcements of key publications and news about members, and
helping organize the business meeting at 4C’s.
• Specifically, I represent graduate interests within the caucus by bringing
mentorship, participation, and other professionalization concerns to the
attention of caucus co-chairs

Fall 2015 – Purdue Online Writing Lab
Spring 2016 OWL Mail Coordinator
• Coordinated team of respondents to answer discrete, writing-related
questions through our OWL Mail service
• Met regularly with other Writing Lab coordinators, Director and Assistant
Director of the Purdue Writing Lab to update and facilitate OWL Mail
related issues
• Transitioned successfully in a University-wide switch from old e-mail service
provider to new one; the process involved coordinating tech support,

3. including of lab staff within new system, and reincorporating archived OWL
Mail e-mails from the past ten years


Seminars and Workshops

June 2015 Seminar Participant, Rhetoric and Race led by Dr. Kent Ono. Rhetoric
Society of America Summer Institute. Madison, Wisconsin

June 2015 Workshop Participant, Subalternity and Transnational Literacy led by
Dr. Raka Shome, Rhetoric Society of American Institute. Madison, Wisconsin

March 2014 Workshop Participant, Teaching American Indian Rhetorics in all
Rhetoric and Composition Classrooms led by Dr. Malea Powell. Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana

Freelance Contributions

Dec. 2014 Pearson Contributor
• Updating supplemental Power Points for Richard Johnson-Sheehan’s Technical
Communication Today, 5th Ed., published by Pearson Inc.

June 2015 Pearson Contributor
• Composed and contributed question banks for argument- oriented online
course created by Pearson Inc.

Pedagogy

Purdue University

Introductory Composition Instructor (7 sections, Fall 2013-present)
Selected Sections

Fall 2016 ENGL 106 Learning Community
EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service)

• Learning Communities group students together by major and common
academic interests, and some often live together. EPICS is a learning
community of first-year engineering students who, for their engineering
courses, produce engineering projects in partnership with community
organizations as a way to address community needs and problems
• My syllabus will be heavily oriented toward my students’ roles as service
learning actants, and my course projects ask them to inquiry deeply into
the role of composition in their field work

4. Spring 2016 ENGL 106 – International Section
Autoethnographic Research Inquiry

Fall 2015 ENGL 106 – Learning Community
Business Leaders
• Learning Communities group students together by major and common
academic interests, and some often live together. EPICS is a learning
community of first-year engineering students who, for their engineering
courses, produce engineering projects in partnership with community
organizations as a way to address community needs and problems
• My syllabus will be heavily oriented toward my students’ roles as service
learning actants, and my course projects ask them to inquiry deeply into
the role of composition in their field work

• Helped to jumpstart, coordinate, facilitate, and promote our Elocutio
Speaker Series, showcasing talks by Dr’s. Harry Denny, Julie Jung, and
Amanda Booher
• Organized and promoted professionalization events for Purdue Rhetoric
and Composition Graduate students at Purdue University
• Assisted and promoted with fundraising efforts


Teaching Awards and Honors

Spring 2016 Learning Community Advocate Award

• Awarded on the basis of (voluntary, or unsolicited) student letters of
recommendation submitted to the Learning Community Office
• Awarded to instructors who demonstrate a commitment to their students
above and beyond expectations in fulfilling their duties with regard to
Learning Communities

Spring 2015 Quintillian Award for Instructional Excellence

• Awarded to instructors in the top ten percent of student evaluations


Graduate Assistant Tutor

Fall 2014 – Purdue Writing Lab
Spring 2016
• Tutored wide range of writers in an even broader range of genres,
including multilingual writers, post-doctoral assistants, graduate and
undergraduate students with documents such as grant applications, job
portfolios, resumes/cover letters, academic writing, PowerPoint
presentations, and even speeches and website

5. Saint Louis University

Spring 2013 Writing Center Consultant Training and Workshop
Teaching Assistant
• Assisted Writing Lab Director with training and hiring new consultants by
facilitating reading discussions and providing feedback on weekly writing
assignments

Fall 2011- Writing Center Consultant
Spring 2013
• Tutored wide range of undergraduate writers, particularly multilingual
students, with academic writing, job documents, and personal
statements/graduate school applications


Service

March 2014 Volunteer, Registration Committee. Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana

Oct. 2016 Reviewer for Cultural Rhetorics Conference