Pritha Prasad
- Assistant Professor
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Biography —
Dr. Prasad’s research broadly explores how antiracist movements and rhetorics have historically shaped rhetoric, writing, and English studies. Her current book in progress, Rematerializing Race/isms: Rhetoric After Ferguson, mobilizes Black feminisms and women of color feminisms to consider how the heightened visibility of racialized violences after the Ferguson Uprising, #BlackLivesMatter, and Trump demand a critical reorientation of rhetoric, writing, and English studies’ intellectual and professional paradigms. Dr. Prasad is also currently co-authoring a second book with Dr. Louis M. Maraj (U. British Columbia) entitled The Benevolent Gaslight: A Technology of Whiteness, a study that explores how U.S. rhetorics of whiteness have systematically and historically situated racial trauma and injury as teaching/learning moments in the teleological pursuit of collective progress. This project explores this phenomenon across humanities disciplines/epistemologies, educational history, university race management, and popular culture.
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Research —
Rhetoric and composition, critical race studies, feminist and queer studies (particularly Black feminisms and queer of color critique), and cultural rhetorics
Selected Publications —
“Beyond Rights as Recognition: Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Prose Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2016, pp 50-73.
“#BlackLivesMatter: Pasts, Presents, and Futures.” Prose Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-14. Co-authored with Louis M. Maraj and Sherita V. Roundtree.
“(Anti)Racist World-Makings in the University: Reinventing Student Work” in Inventing the Discipline: Student Work in Composition Studies, edited by Stacey Waite and Peter W. Moe, Parlor Press. (forthcoming)
“Backchannel Pedagogies: Unsettling Racial Teaching Moments and White Futurity” (forthcoming in Present Tense)