CONFERENCE PAPERS
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.
Nepalese/Asian Graduate Students and Composition Studies: Issues and Concerns in the Writing Studies. Conference at College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, California, March 2009. [PDF]
Caste System and Identities of Indigenous People in Nepal. Conference at College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2007.
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. [PDF]
Academic Writing and Rhetoric: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Nepal and the U.S. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Reno, Nevada, October 2008. [PDF]
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. [PDF]
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 2008. [PDF]
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. [PDF]
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.
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.
