“The Necessity of Genre Disruption in Organizing an Advocacy Space for and by Graduate Students”

by Ashanka Kumari, Sweta Baniya, and Kyle Larson | Xchanges 15.1, Spring 2020

About the Authors

Ashanka Kumari is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition and rhetoric. Her current research centers first-generation-to-college graduate students and the ways they negotiate the expectations of academia with their lives and other obligations. She is a founding member of the nextGEN Listserv.

Sweta Baniya is an incoming Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Writing at Virginia Tech. Her research centers around transnational disaster response, crisis communication, and non-western rhetorics. Dr. Baniya is a founding member of the nextGEN listserv.

Kyle Larson is a PhD Candidate at Miami University (OH). His research on counterpublic writing and rhetorics has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, Peitho, and most recently Rhetoric Society Quarterly. At Miami, he teaches cultural studies courses on public writing and activist rhetorics. He also collaborates with students of color on campus to build and organize an insurgent, grassroots education program called Racial Consciousness 101 (race101mu.org). His current research focuses on the rhetorical processes by which social movements emerge and acquire power in the public sphere. He is a founding member of nextGEN.