Marohang Limbu

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EDUCATION                                                        

Ph. D. (Forthcoming July, 2010)Rhetoric and Composition Studies

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas

Dissertation: Cross-cultural composition 2.0: (Re)Mapping Students’ Spaces in the first-year college composition courses


Committee:           

            Chair:                                     Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program

            Second Reader:                     Dr. Isabel Baca, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program

            Third Reader:                         Dr. Alfredo Urzua, Language and Linguistic Program

Abstract:

My dissertation “Cross-Cultural Composition 2.0: Mapping/(Re)mapping Spaces of ESL Students in First-Year College Composition Courses” examines the curricula, syllabi, course materials, pedagogy, and theories and practices of first-year composition courses. Having traced issues, I theorize cross-cultural composition 2.0 (CCC 2.0) in my dissertation, which is a construction of inclusive and democratic spaces in first-year composition courses. CCC 2.0 includes multicultural materials, Web 2.0 tools (wikis, facebook, blogs, MySpace, Google group/sites, Flickr, twitter, podcasting, and YouTube), critical pedagogy, and theories of composition studies. I incorporate these elements/theories to create spaces for varied student populations in first-year composition courses from a glocal (global and local) perspective. Hence, my dissertation aims to encourage students to constantly engage in various dialogues in a non-threatening environment to prepare them as critical, philosophical, and analytical writers/thinkers. In CCC 2.0, students not only develop cross-cultural and intercultural, or global communication skills, but they also use Web 2.0 and language as tools to create multiple truths/realities in their academic and professional writing. Consequently, my dissertation seeks to create spaces where students’ cultural rhetorics, rhetorical modes, and rhetorical strategies are validated in first-year composition courses outside of the Anglo-American rhetorical tradition to meet needs, values, and expectations of twenty-first century audience/world.

 

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

M. A., May 2006 

Rhetoric and Professional Communication

Concentrations: History of Rhetoric, Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Spatial and Visual Rhetorics, Theories of Discourse, Modern Rhetorical Theories, Research and Writing in Composition, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric of Science, and Intercultural Rhetoric. 

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

M. A., 1998 

English

Concentrations: History of English Literature and Literary Theory, Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Literary Theory, and Linguistics and Literature
 

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

B. A., 1994

English

Concentrations: British English Literature- Poetry, Short Story, Essay, Novel, Drama, History of English Literature, critical theory
 

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

B. Ed., 1990

English and Education

Concentrations: Education Psychology, Foundation of Education and Curriculum Development, English Linguistics, English Literature, and Student Teaching.
 

Tribhuvan University, Dhankuta, Nepal

I. Ed., 1988

English and Education

Concentrations: Education Psychology, Foundation of Education and Curriculum Development, English Linguistics, English Literature, and Student Teaching.
 

Board of Nepal, Nepal

S. L. C., 1984

English and Education

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Assistant Instructor, University of Teas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, Fall 2006 - present

Courses Taught:

         English 3359 (Technical Writing) – 2 sections

         English 3355 (Workplace Writing) – 1 section

         English 1312 (Research and Critical Writing) – 1 section

         English 1311 (Expository English Composition) – 4 sections
 

Writing Center Tutor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Fall 2004- Spring 2006

Instructor/Teaching Assistant, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Fall 2004 – Spring 2006

Courses Taught:

         English 111 (Rhetoric and Composition) (5 sections)


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN NEPAL

Lecturer, RR College, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Fall 2000 – Spring 2004

Courses Taught:

         English Language Teaching – (Graduate level) (2 sections)

         History of English Literature and Criticism – (Graduate level) (2 sections)
 

Lecturer, F.W. Management Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal, Fall 1998 - Spring 2004

Courses Taught:

         Creative Writing – (Undergraduate) (4 sections)

         History of English Literature – Drama, Poetry, and Prose (Undergraduate) (3 sections)

         Language – Writing, Grammar, and Literature (Undergraduate) (3 sections)

Lecturer, Madan Bhadari Memorial College, Kathmadu, Nepal, Fall 2003 – Spring 2004

Courses Taught:

          Elements of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction (2 sections)

          Language – Writing, Grammar, and Literature (3 sections)

Founder Principal, National Orchid English Boarding School, Fall 2000 – Spring 2004       

Assistant Principal, Jagat Mandir English Boarding High School, Spring 1996 – Spring 2000

Senior English Teacher, Pakhribas Agricultural Center School, Spring 1990- Fall 1996 

English and Education Teacher, Basant High School, Tehrathum, Nepal, Spring 1989- Fall 1990 

English Teacher, Krishna Middle school, Tehrathum, Nepal, Fall 1985-1989

 

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS 

Pedagogy 2.0 and Multilingual Writing in Globalized World. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Louisville, Kentucky, March 2010.

Nepalese/Asian Graduate Students and Composition Studies: Issues and Concerns in the Writing Studies. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco, California, March 2009.

Caste System and Identities of Indigenous People in Nepal. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York, March 2007.

Cross-Cultural Composition 2.0: Mapping/(Re)Mapping Spaces of Students in First-Year College Composition Courses. Rhetoric Society of America, UTEP Chapter, El Paso, April 2010.

Pedagogy 2.0: Cross-Cultural Composition Courses in the 21st Century’s Glocalized World. Symposium on Second Language Writing: The Future of Second Language Writing, Tempe, November 2009.

Intercultural Communication 2.0: Students as Cultural Ambassadors in Writing Classrooms. Second International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, Arizona, January 2010.

Teaching Critical Writing and Mapping Spaces of Linguistic Minority Students in Composition Courses. The Fifth Annual English Graduate Student Conference, University of Texas at El Paso, February 2010.

Pedagogy of the Privileged in U.S. Academic Writing: Future of Cross-Cultural Rhetoric and Writing in the Postmodern Glocalized World. Pedagogy of Privilege Conference, University of Colorado, Denver, June 2009.

Mapping Students’ Spaces/Places in the First-Year Composition Courses: Creating Intercultural/Cross-Cultural Settings via Visual Rhetoric in Academic Writing. The International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at El Paso, February 2009.

Creating and Re-creating Minority Identities, Knowledge, and Discourse Through Visual Rhetoric (Chair). Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association

Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2009.

The 21st Century’s Glocalized World: U.S. Academic Curricula and Writing as Ecstasy or Agony. Graduate Research and Arts Symposium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 2009.

Decolonizing ESL Students’ Minds in Writing: Student Voice and Resistance as Power. Nepalese Students’ Association. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, May 2009.

Academic Writing and Rhetoric: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Nepal and the U.S. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Reno, Nevada, October 2008.

Navigating the Labyrinth of Academic Writing in a Second Language: Successful Scholars at UTEP Reflect on their Journeys. University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, 2008.

PUBLICATIONS 

Website Analysis across Cultures: An Inquiry into Intercultural Values and Website Design. With Thatcher, Barry, Barrantes, Edgar, Dalzell, Amy, Dong, Qiumin, Ford, Christopher, Klein, Sipai. Gallagher, Rachel, and Ramirez, Lisa.  Linguistic and cultural online communication issues in the global age. Ed. Kirk St. Amant. Hershey, PA: Idea group, 2007. 124-142. 

Teaching Writing in the First-Year Composition Courses via Visual Image/s (Rhetoric): Mapping Students’ Spaces/Voices in Their Writing (Conference proceeding, forth coming). The International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at El Paso. 

IN-HOUSE PUBLICATIONS 

Generation 1.5 Students and College Composition (2008) A Writing Center Manual for Tutors

Online Tutoring: Advantages, Pitfalls, and Its Possibility at the UTEP Writing Center (2008) A Manual for the Writing Center Online Tutors 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS 

Pedagogy 2.0 and Future of Composition: Mapping Students’ Spaces in Virtual and Physical Spaces

 

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD 

President, Frontera Retorica, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Texas El Paso, 2009-2010

Area Chair, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Utah, 2009 

Webmaster, Frontera Retorica, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Texas El Paso, 2007-2008

Historian, Frontera Retorica, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Texas El Paso, 2006-2007 

Chairman, Limbu Culture Research and Preservation Center, Kathmandu, Nepal 2003 - 2004 

Executive Member, Community Development Society, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2001 – 2004 

Executive Member, Mid-North Mutual Educational Board, Kathmandu, Nepal. 

Founder and Executive Member, National Orchid English Boarding High School, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2000-present 

Founder Member, Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2001-present

 

CURRENT ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS 

Rhetoric Society of America

National Council of Teachers of English

Conference of College Conference and Communication

Second Language Writing

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

 

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS 

First-Year Composition                                                  

Advanced Composition                                             

Technical Writing                                                            

History of Rhetoric

Workplace Writing                                                          

ESL Theories of Writing

 

DOCTORAL COURSE WORK

Composition Studies                                                         Dr. Helen Foster

Rhetorical History I                                                            Dr. Carol L. Clark

Rhetorical History II                                                           Dr. Beth Brunk-Chávez

Rhetoric and Technology                                                   Dr. Carlos Salinas

Advanced Critical Theory                                                   Dr. Elaine Fredericksen

Professional Development                                                 Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf/Dr. Helen Foster

Cultural and Linguistic Issues

in the Composition Classroom                                           Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf

Teaching ESL Students in

Composition Classroom                                                     Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf

Globalization and Multilingual Students                             Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf

Second Language Acquisition                                           Dr. Maria Blume

Teaching Second Language Composition                         Dr. Alfredo A. Urzua

Community Literacy Internship                                          Dr. Isabel Baca

Visual Rhetoric                                                                   Dr. Carlos Salinas

 

REFERENCES

 

Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf
Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Director of University Writing Programs
Library 227, University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
Phone no: 915-747-5543
kmangels@utep.edu 
 
Dr. Beth Brunk-Chavez
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Director of First-Year Compositon
220 Hudspeth Hall
University of Texas El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
Phone no: 915-747-5797
blbrunk@utep.edu 
 
Dr Isabel Baca
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
312 Hudspeth Hall
University of Texas at El Paso 
El Paso, TX 79968
Phone no: 915-747-2505
ibaca@utep.edu