I am the Director of Writing and an Assistant Professor of English, Composition and Rhetoric at Texas A&M University – Commerce. My research and teaching areas include graduate student professionalization, multimodal composition and pedagogy and the intersections among identity studies, digital literacies, and popular culture.

My dissertation project, Remaking Identities, Reworking Graduate Study: Stories from First-Generation-to-College PhD Students on Navigating the Doctorate looks at first-generation-to-college doctoral students in Rhetoric and Composition and the ways they/we negotiate the expectations of graduate study with our lives.

Additionally, I serve as Reviews section co-editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Associate Copy Editor for enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture.

I hold a B.A. in English and B.A.C. in Journalism from the University of Alabama, a M.A. in English, Composition and Rhetoric with a specialization certificate in digital humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville.

Ashanka Kumari