Conferences

Plurilingualism in South Asia: Lessons from Bengali Muslim Communities’ Writings in Puthi Genres” Modern Languages Association Convention, Washington DC, USA, January 2022. (Remote).

“Articulating Home: Translingualism in the Citiscapes and Digital Spaces of the Bangladeshi Diaspora” Modern Languages Association Convention, Washington DC, USA, January 2022. (Remote).

“Rewriting the Learning Relationship in the Writing Classroom: Fostering Critical Engagement Through
Courses Using Embedded Mentor Meetings” Fourth HBCU Symposium on Rhetoric and Composition. Florida &M University, Tallahasse, Florida, USA, September, 2021. (Remote)

“Articulations of the Umma in Pre-Modern Islamic Genres in Bengal” Northeast Modern Language
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, March 2021. (Remote)

“Genre Uptake: A Translingual Approach to Feedback.” College English Association – Middle Atlantic Group, Largo, Maryland, USA, April 2020.

“Literacy Brokering for International Graduate Students: Examining Feedback and Uptake Activities in Case Studies of Writing for Publication” Conference on Writing Education Across Borders, State College, Pennsylvania, USA, September 2019.

“Building a Studio Model of Composition at an HBCU: Perspectives from a WPA,” Baltimore Metro Writing Center Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2019.

“Pitching Academic Literacies: Conceptual Metaphors and Genre Performances for an Entomology Graduate Student Writing Genres” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 2019.

“Pitching Academic Literacies: Conceptual Metaphors and Rhetorical Knowledge Development for an Entomology Graduate Student Writing Genres” College English Association – Middle Atlantic Group, Bowie, Maryland, USA, April 2019.

“Learning to Pitch: A Case Study in Literacy Sponsorship and Transfer of Genre Knowledge Across Writing Contexts” The Twelfth Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, October 2018.

“The Sponsorship of Safehouses: Why Graduate Students Use A Graduate Writing Center” Modern Language Association, New York, New York, USA, January 2018.

“Negotiating Neoliberal Expectations in STEM Literacy Practices: A Case Study of Cultivating Strategic Capacities and Recognizing Contradictions.” Center for Global Studies Brown Bag Series, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, April 2017.

“Learning Through Recontextualization: The Role of Rhetorical Attunement for a Graduate Writer Writing for Scholarly Publication.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon, USA, April 2017.

“Differentiating Feedback in the Disciplines: A Multilingual Graduate Student’s Writing Practices with Literacy Brokers.” “College Writing”: From the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar to Tomorrow, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, July 2016.

“Recontexualizing Islamic Discourse in the Nationalist Rhetoric of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s 1940 Lahore Speech.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas, USA, April 2016.

“Writing Center Practices in Context: Literacy Activities of a Graduate Student in a Graduate Writing Center and in Discipline-Specific Reading Groups.” International Writing Centers Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. October 2015.

“Translingual Disposition: The Socialization of a Graduate Student as Rhetorical Attunement.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida, USA, April 2015.

“A Rhetoric of Decency: Identification and Invention in George Orwell’s Spanish Writings” Engendering Rhetorical Power Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. October 2014.“Ideologies of ESL and First Language Composition Pedagogies: Constructing Student Identities.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. April 2014. 

““Literacy is like an art, almost”: Notions of Literacy and the Meaning of Writing for Students of First-Year Composition” 34th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. October 2013.

“Language Instruction in Madrasah Classrooms in Bangladesh: An Evaluative Study.” International Conference in Language and Literature, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. April 2011.

“English as Emancipation?: A Review of the Discourse on English in Bangladesh.” 8th International Language and Development Conference. Dhaka, Bangladesh. April 2009.