Publications

BOOKS (monographs)

  1. Making Learning Happen: Five Shifts Toward Student Focused Higher Education, STAR Scholars Publication, 2023
  2. Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success. Routledge, 2018.
  • In contract process: Foundations, Fault lines, and Futures: A Disciplinary Exploration of International Education in the United States (under review at Utah State U. Press; Expected publication: 2025). 
  • Manuscript in progress: Writing Education in South Asia: Obstacles and Pathways, Expected completion: mid 2025.

EDITED BOOKS

  1. Co-edited with Xi Lin and Roy Chan. ChatGPT and Global Higher Education: Using Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning. STAR Scholars Publication. 2024.
  2. Co-edited with Acharya, Bhanu B. Global Perspectives on Nepalese Journalism in Nepal, Routledge, 2022.
  3. Co-edited with Gaulee, U, & Bista, K. Rethinking Education Across Borders: Issues and Perspectives about Globally Mobile Students. Springer, 2020. 
  4. Co-edited with Bista, K. & Raby, C: Higher Education in Nepal: Practice, Policy and Perspectives, Routledge, 2019.
  • In development, co-edited with Christopher Basgier et al., Beyond Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Advancing Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, Expected publication: late 2025

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. “Scholarship 2.0: Countering the Hegemony of English for Making Knowledge Production Locally More Valuable in the Global South.” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, 2022.
  2.  “Academic Identity Development of Doctoral Scholars in an Online Writing Group,” co-authored with Khim R. Subedi and Krishna Bista. Informing Science Institute – International Journal of Doctoral Studies. Vol. 17, 2022, pp. 279-300.
  3. “Writing Process Revisited: International Graduate Students’ Exploration of Macrosocial Space.” Eds. Bal Krishna Sharma and Suresh Canagarajah, International Journal of Bilingual Education, 2020.
  4. “Focusing on International Graduate Students” (editorial article). Journal of International Students, vol. 9, no. 3 (September 2019). 
  5. “Internationalizing Writing in the STEM Disciplines,” Across the Disciplines.  Special issue “Bringing the Outside In: Internationalizing the WAC/WID Classroom,” edited by Stefanie Frigo and Collie Fulford, 2018. 
  6. “World Rhetorics: A Course for the Next Generation of Writing Teachers.” Composition Studies, 44.1 (2016). (pp. 108-26). 
  7. “Cultural Schemas and Pedagogical Uses of Literacy Narratives: A Reflection on My Journey with Reading and Writing.” College Composition and Communication, 67.1 (2015). (pp. 104-110; 2000 words, per editor’s request/limit for the section). 
  8. “Bonds of Difference: Participation as Inclusion” & “Bonds of Difference: Illusion of Inclusion,”  co-authored with Maha Bali. Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology, 2014. (2-part article, 10 pages). 
  9. “Digital Storytelling in the Composition Classroom: Addressing the Challenges.” Computers and Composition Online, Winter 2013. (21 pages). 
  10. “Writing a Translingual Script: Closed Captions in the Multilingual Hearing Classroom,” collaborated with Amy Lueck. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 17.3, 2013. (Digital text, contributed primarily to multimodal design). 
  11. “Monolingualism among Multilingual Scholars and its Implications for EAP/ESP.” Professional and Academic English, 40 (Summer – Autumn), 2012. 28-43. 
  12. “Criticalizing the pedagogy of English studies.” Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 4.1, 2011.
  13. “Rethinking Language and Writing in Composition.” A response essay. JAC. 29, 1-2, 2009. 
  14. “A Teacher’s Letter Home” Journal of NELTA (Nepal English Language Teachers Association), 14.1, 2009.
  15. “English Language Teaching in Nepal: Promises and Challenges for Teachers.” Contemporary Issues in ELT, (NELTA Chapter Birgunj, Nepal), 2009.
  16. “Teaching: What, How, and Why?” Chrysanthemum, 8. (Society of English Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu), 2007.  
  17. “The Language of Silence,” Chrysanthemum, 3. (Society of English Studies Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu), 2000. 
  • Under review: “A Rhetorical-Political Framework for Multilingual and Translingual Scholarship,” co-authored with Bal K. Sharma.  
  • Under review: “Fostering Knowledge Enrootment: Advancing Scholarship in the Global South,” co-authored with S. Subedi, N. Pervin, & P. Bhowmik.   
  • Under review: “There’s a need for Freedom”: Rhetorical-critical language mobilization in translingual writing.” 
  • Accepted, drafting: “Tech-Induced Transformations in Literacy: Reframing and Teaching Privacy, Agency, and Originality”

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. “Transnational Telephone Games: Collaborations on Writing Education in South Asia,” co-authored with Gene Hammond. Transnational WAC Collaboration. Eds: Jonathan Hall and Bruce Horner. University of Colorado Press, 2023 (pp. 143-164).
  2. “Romantic ambivalences: Experiencing Nepal (from) within and without,” co-authored with Soni Adhikari. The Shangrila Nation: Memory, Identity, and Nepal. Eds. Simkhada et al. Mandala Book Point, Nepal, 2022 (422-433). 
  3. “Setting the Scene: Perspectives on the Nepali News Media in the 21st Century,” co-authored with Bhanu B. Acharya (book coedited with Acharya), Global Perspectives on Nepalese Journalism in Nepal, Routledge, 2022 (pp. 1-22).
  4. “Framing Diffusion: Nepalese Journalism Education in the 21st Century, co-authored with Bhanu B. Acharya (book coedited with Acyarya), Global Perspectives on Nepalese Journalism in Nepal, Routledge, 2022 (93-114). 
  5. “Perspectives from the Ground Up.” co-authored with Bhanu B. Acharya (book coedited with Acharya), Global Perspectives on Nepalese Journalism in Nepal, Routledge, 2022 (pp. 307-15).
  6. “Addressing Monolingual Dispositions with Translingual Pedagogy.” In Practical Pedagogies: Engaging Domestic and International Students in Translingual & Translocal Writing. Eds. Frost, Blum-Malley & Kiernan. U. Press of Colorado, 2021 (pp. 17-38).
  7. “Teaching World Rhetorics: Promoting Pedagogy to Address the Dynamics of Marginalization.” Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetoric. Ed: Keith Lloyd. Routledge, 2021 (353-362). 
  8. “Realigning Higher Education in Nepal.” In Bista, Sharma, Raby eds. Higher Education in Nepal: Policies and Perspectives, Routledge, 2019 (pp. 233-248)
  9. “Introduction: Telling stories, generating perspectives: Local–global dynamics in Nepalese higher education.” Co-authored with Krishna Bista and Rosalind L. Raby: In Bista, Sharma, Raby eds. Higher Education in Nepal: Policies and Perspectives, Routledge, 2019 (pp. 3-22).  
  10. “Conclusion: Complexities of higher education in Nepal” (with Rosalind L. Raby & Krishna Bista). Co-authored with Krishna Bista and Rosalind L. Raby: In Bista, Sharma, Raby eds. Higher Education in Nepal: Policies and Perspectives, Routledge, 2019 (pp. 283-291).   
  11. “Making the shifts to change the system: Implementing the semester system through pedagogical training in Tribhuvan University.” Co-authored with Sudha Tripathi and Surendra Subedi: In Bista, Sharma, Raby eds. Higher Education in Nepal: Policies and Perspectives, Routledge, 2019 (pp. 35-54) 
  12. “Beyond Colonial Hegemonies: Scholarship and Teaching with Rhetorical Traditions from South Asia.” Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities and Decolonial Visions. Eds. Romeo García, Damián Baca, 2019 (pp. 169-195).
  13. “Translanguaging in Hiding: Effects of English-Only Instruction on Education in Nepal.” In Transnational Writing Education: Theory and Practice. Ed. Xiaoye You. 2019 (pp. 79-94).  
  14. “International Student Mobility: Examining Trends and Tensions.” Co-authored with Krishna Bista and Uttam Gaulee (book coedited with same authors). International Student Mobility and Opportunities for Growth in the Global Marketplace, IGI Global, 2018.  
  15. “Using Mobile Videocapture to Facilitate Student Writing and Learning” co-authored with Soni Adhikari. In Mobile Technology and the Writing Classroom. Ed: C. Lutkewitte, NCTE, 2016. (pp. 164-178). 
  16. “Translating Success: Academic Transition of International Students in the US.” In International Student Mobility, Services, and Policy in Higher Education. Eds. K. Bista. & G. Foster. IGI Global, 2015. (pp. 1-16). 
  17. “Third Eye: An Exhibit of Literacy Narratives from Nepal.” In Stories that Speak to Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives. Cynthia Selfe et al. Utah: The University of Utah Press imprint, 2012. (multimodal: with 40 text pages with 17 videos & transcript). 
  18. “Global Popular Culture and Literacy Practices of Nepalese Youth Online,” co-authored with Bal K. Sharma. In Screening Literacy Across Cultures. Eds. Bronwyn Williams & Amy Zenger. London: Routledge, 2012. (pp. 151-166). 

BOOK REVIEW

  1. Student Mobility and the Internationalization of Higher Education: National Policies and Strategies from Six World Regions (a Project Atlas Report), Journal of International Students, Arkansas State U., 2012. 

 

SIGNIFICANT NON PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

F1. Correspondence

  1. With Christopher Basgier, Response to an opinion in Nature, “Should Scientists Delegate their Writing to ChatGPT?” December 19, 2023. 

F2. Op-Eds   

  1. 80 op eds for Republica (national English daily in Nepal, sister publication of The New York Times). A column on higher education and society, July 2014-. Samples: “Using AI: Content, Credit, Credibility,” May 16, 2024; “Educating beyond the bots,” Feb. 12, 2023; “Magic tools and research integrity,” Mar. 23, 2021. 
  2. Multilingual: “संकटमा अनलाइन शिक्षाको औचित्य,” Kantipur Daily, Nepal, October 5, 2020. 
  3. With Subhash Nepali: “न्यायकालागि दलित लेखन” (Dalit writing for justice), Aug. 7, 2019.
  4. With Sudha Tripathi & Surendra Subedi. “Transformations in Teaching.” Apr. 3, 2019. Republica. 
  5. With Surendra Subedi: “Semester System in Nepal: Taking a Collaborative, Constructivist Approach to Teacher Training.” Tribhuvan University Journal, 2018. 
  6. “A MOOC Delusion: Why Visions to Educate the World are Absurd.” Chronicle of Higher Education: Worldwise. July 16, 2013. 

F3. Editorials (samples)

  1. 12 Editorials: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 1.1-8.2. 
  1. Editorial, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Pedagogies. Special Issues on Massive Open Online Courses & International Education, guest edited with Michael Murphy, 2014-15. 
  2. 4 Editorials, co-authored as associate editor (1 of 4): Journal of NELTA (Nepal English Language Teachers Association), Issues 14 through 17 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). 
  1. 10 Editorials, ELT Choutari, blog-based monthly magazine on English Language Teaching, read by English teachers around the world; 2009-12. 

F4. Essays, Program Report (samples)

  1. Report: Online Teaching Training, 500+ faculty members from across Nepal, September 2020.
  2. Perspective: “Covid-19 and International Education,” The Bridge (University Newsletter), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 2020.

F5. Blog Posts (samples)  

  1. “Assigning and Teaching Writing in the Age of AI,” Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Stony Brook University, January 19, 2023. 
  2. “Translingual, Transcultural, Transnational: From Buzzwords to Teaching Strategies.” Transnational Writing Blog. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Feb.-Mar., 2015. 
  1. 8 blog posts on teaching writing, including four collaborated with SBU colleagues. RhetCompatStonyBrook (Writing Program blog, Stony Brook University). 2014-17. 
  1. Over 100 posts on personal blog at www.shyamsharma.net, on issues including new media and writing studies, critical pedagogy, and supporting international students. 2009-. 

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

  1. Modules for graduate courses, faculty development programs, and grant projects. 
  2. Teaching resources (handouts, self-assessment tool, guidelines), for the Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication, as part of broader initiatives to promote language diversity and language justice on campus. (ref: sample teaching blogs as indicated above)
  3. Reports published upon 4-6 weeklong professional development training led on online teaching,  research publication, research agenda development, social impact, and writing groups for the STAR Scholars Network, TU Grassroots Community of Scholars, and other communities. 
  4. Handbook on Student-Centered teaching, used by thousands of teachers in Nepal and beyond; later published as Making Learning Happen (a public scholarship work that has been downloaded by thousands of teachers around the world). 
  5. Diversifying Arguments: led resource-building as part of a departmental taskforce with this name. 
  6. Resources on the use of AI tools in the teaching of writing (shared within SBU and beyond). 

CREATIVE WRITING  

दुखिरहने देश (a collection of poems in Nepali), Kathmandu: Sunlight Publication, 2006.
(title: translates roughly to “country that keeps hurting”; subject: social/political satire).

Dozen plus poems in newspapers, magazines.

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