Tarez Samra Graban

Demos Director of Research and Fellowships

Associate Professor, Department of English

TAREZ SAMRA GRABAN, Associate Professor, (Ph.D. Purdue University, 2006; A.B. English, Brown University, 1993; A.B. Religious Studies, Brown University, 1993), centers her research and teaching in histories of rhetoric, histories and theories of composition, feminist rhetorical theory, public discourse, multilingualism, and digital humanities. Lately, her work attends to rhetoric as epistemology, writing as text technology, and alterity as cultural apparatus. It challenges overriding assumptions about feminist ways of knowing that historically go unnoticed, due to any number of factors; extends comparative rhetorical methodologies; and considers historical challenges of globalizing such study through increasingly technologized means. One current project, “Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Transnational Archive,” argues for new notions of archival composition and rhetorical circulation when examining women’s writing in post-, anti-, and de-colonial contexts. Another project, the “Linked Women Pedagogues (LWP) Project,” traces the intellectual influence of women and underrepresented groups on rhetorical studies within and without of the modern university, through the migration of people, motives, texts, curriculum, and ephemera—all as reflected in institutional and archival metadata and in the ways that researchers take up or historicize that metadata.