Shuv Raj Rana Bhat, Ph.D.

Instructor

s.ranabhat@tcu.eduSCHAR 2015D (map link)

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal Arts English

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English/Language Arts /
Rhetoric & Composition

Education

Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, The University of Texas at El Paso (2021)

MPhil., English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2012)

MA , English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (2001)

Courses Taught

RWS 1301: Rhetoric and Composition

RWS 1302: Rhetoric and Composition

3359: Technical Writing

ENGL 10803-050 Introductory Composition: Writing as Inquiry

WRIT 20323 - 045 Introduction to Multimedia Authoring

Areas of Focus

Multimodal composition and pedagogy

Multimodal critical discourse studies

Decolonial, antiracist and translingual rhetorics and pedagogies

Critical stylistics and rhetorics

Nonwestern rhetorics (rhetoric of Hinduism)

Language, power and ideology

Selected Publications

Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Rhetoric as a Vehicle of Social Order in the Garuda Purana. Alternative Sources for Rhetorical Traditions. Edited by Hui Wu, & Tarez Samra Graban. Southern Illinois University Press. (accepted)
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Service Learning as a Vehicle of Genuine Learning, Reciprocity, and Critical Thinking: An International Intern’s Critical Reflection.” Community Literacy Journal. (provisionally accepted pending revisions)
Tinoco, Lizbett, Louis A. Herman, Shuv Raj Rana Bhat and Alison Wells Zepeda. “International Writing Tutors Leveraging Linguistic Differences at a Hispanic-Serving Institution’s Writing Center.” The Peer Review, 4(2), 2020.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Orientalist Representation of Nepali People, Culture and Landscape: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.” SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities, 1, 2019. p. 24-40.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Exploring Nontraditional Rhetoric: Voicing the Voiceless through Nativization of Traditional Rhetoric.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 4(2), 2017. p. 617-638.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Celie’s Transformation from Patient to Agent: A Semantic Analysis of Walker’s The Color Purple.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 29(2), 2016. p. 116-119.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Rhetoric of Empire in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa.” Crosscurrents, 2(2), 2014. p. 368-385.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Tracing Postmodernism in Language and Literature Pedagogy.” International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 1(2), 2014. p. 74-82.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “A Defamiliarizing Language in The God of Small Things.” Nepalese Linguistics, 26, 2011. p. 176-85.

Selected Presentations

Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Exploring Diverse Communities through Multimodal Texts.” CCCC Regional Conference, University of Southern California, December 18-19, 2020.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Rhetorical Tactics in the Garuda Purana.” Seventy-Third Annual Convention of Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, El Paso, Texas, October 10-12, 2019.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Mode Mixing as Meaning Making Process: Projecting Students’ Ideologies and Values in First Year Composition.” NeSA 11th International Conference at New Mexico State University, March 23, 2019.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Modes, Codes and Words Matter: A Multimodal Critical Study of Brochures in First Year Composition.” 40th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 20-23, 2019.
Herman, Louis A, Shuv Raj Rana Bhat, Alison Wells Zepeda and Lizbett Tinoco. “Migrating to a New Workplace: International Student Tutors in the Writing Center.” The NCPTW National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing at South Padre Island, Nov 1-4 2018.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Construction of Whiteness in Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.” The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, 25-27 July, 2018, Hotel Shanker, Lazimpat, Kathmandu.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Representation of Women in Multimodal Texts.” NeSA 10th International Conference at New Mexico State University, March 31, 2018.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. ““Forget All This Nonsense about Pronouns!” A Feminist Stylistic Approach to Representation of Women in Multimodal Texts.” UTEP’s Women’s History Month Conference, The University of Texas at El Paso, March 27 & 28, 2018.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Exploring Nontraditional Rhetoric: Voicing the Voiceless through Nativization of Traditional Rhetoric.” Graduate Research Expo, The University of Texas at El Paso, November 9-10, 2017.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Exploring Rhetorical Situations in First Year Rhetoric and Writing Class.” Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies. El Paso, October 18-20 2017.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Unthought-of Connections: The Intersection of Critical Stylistics and Rhetoric and Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, March 2017.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Rhetoric of Empire in Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.” NeSA 8th International Conference at New Mexico State University, March 12, 2016.
Ceniceros, Isaac, Shuv Raj Rana Bhat and Elvira Carrizal-Dukes. “Embodied Consciousness: Theory, Analysis, and Application.” The University of Texas at El Pas (UTEP) Graduate Student English Association, April 1 & 2, 2016.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Rhetorical Construction of Nepal in Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.” 31st Annual International Conference of Literary Association of Nepal (LAN) at Kathmandu, March 1-2, 2012.
Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Indianization of English in Kanthapura.” 28th Annual International Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal November 26-27, 2007.

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