Saurabh Anand

Saurabh Anand | सौरभ आनंद is a queer, multilingual scholar, poet, and writing center administrator whose work centers on questions of equity, multilingualism, and global rhetorical traditions in writing studies. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English (Rhetoric and Composition) at the University of Georgia, where he also earned a Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies. At UGA, he serves as Graduate Assistant Director of the Willis Center for Writing - University's Writing Center, has co-taught writing center theory and practice courses, and has designed and taught undergraduate courses in first-year composition, including nonfiction genres for multilingual and international students. In 2024, he was a guest writing consultant at the Language Center, TU Darmstadt, Germany, where he tutored in Hindi and studied comparative approaches to writing support. Hindi, (Indian) English, German, Hungarian, and Punjabi are his languages. He writes and translates in three scripts.

Anand's scholarship contributes to writing center studies, rhetoric and composition, and transnational literacy research. His peer-reviewed essays include Decolonizing Tutor and Writing Center Administrative Labor: An Autoethnography of a South Asian Writing Center's Personnel (Writing Center Journal, 2024), which critiques how colonial legacies shape admisntrative labor hierarchies in the US writing centers, and Defining and Learning About Multilingual Linguistic and Professional Labor in the Writing Center Context: An Autoethnographic Tutor Perspective (Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 2024), which theorizes multilingual labor as central rather than peripheral to the US writing center pedagogy. His forthcoming Writing Center Journal article, Reimagining WPA and Writing Center Administration Centering Minority Writers, advances a vision of leadership rooted in queer, decolonial, and translingual frameworks.

Beyond writing center research, Anand has explored methodological and pedagogical intersections. His article Pilot Digital Employment Analysis from the First-Year Composition Archive (Journal of Writing Analytics, 2024) applies computational methods to labor data available on the First Year Composition Archive, while A South Asian English Composition Teacher's Identity Depiction: An Essay on Arts-Based Teaching Artifact (FORUM, 2024) reflects on the intersections of identity and teaching writing in the US classrooms through creative pedagogy. His soon-to-be-published co-authored piece titled The History and Present Flourish Writing Scholarship in/from the MENA Region (MENA Writing Studies Journal, accepted) will expand conversations on regional and global knowledge-making in writing studies.

His earlier publications include Between Languages: From a Multilingual Society to Multilingual Classrooms (ADE Bulletin, Modern Language Association, 2020), which draws from his own teaching experiences in India and the United States, and Teaching Material: How to Cultivate Compare and Contrast Essay Writing Using a Narrative Reading (MinneTESOL Journal, 2021) is a pedagogical example in the second langauge writing context. Across these works, Anand consistently foregrounds the lived realities of multilingual learners, positioning their linguistic repertoires as intellectual assets rather than deficits.

In addition to research articles, Anand has published book chapters with Routledge and Brill/Sense. These include Not 'Native' Enough: A Duoethnography of International Doctoral Students from South Asia (2024), co-authored with a colleague, and the forthcoming When 'Languages and Englishes' Go to the US South from the Global South: A Language Ideological Perspective from Georgia. His collaborative scholarship also includes the forthcoming Textualizing Our Journeys: Dialogic Explorations of Trans-Speakerism as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Routledge).

Anand's research and creative work have been recognized with national and international awards, fellowships, and grants. Among them are the LGBTQIA+ Advocacy and Leadership Award (National Council of Teachers of English), the Champion of Equity in Higher Education Award (American Consortium for Equity in Education), the Scholar of Dream Award (Conference on College Composition and Communication), and the Bedford/St. Martin's Fellowship (Writing Innovation Symposium), and the Future Leader Award (International Writing Center Association). He has also been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellow at the University of Michigan, and multiple UGA grants, including the Willson Center Graduate Research Grant.

As a poet and essayist, Anand explores queer identity, migration, and multilingual belonging. His poetry has appeared in English Journal ("Questions I Hear Because of My Indian English"), Community Literacy Journal ("First pride parade in my city"), Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric ("'Writing With Power,' As Elbow Said, A Villanelle"), Peitho, a journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, ("My Queer [Writing] Heart"), and the South Florida Poetry Journal, ("Seventy-Five Years"). His essays and creative nonfiction have been published in Washington Square Review ("I Miss Ya, Minnesota"), Roi Fainéant ("The Eleventh Chapter of R. F. Kuang's Yellowface Gave Me Goosebumps"), and The Autoethnographer ("Grieving From Miles"), among others. His digital and visual works include Being International (South Asian American Digital Archive) and creative pedagogical artifacts for the Journal of Language and Literacy Education.

Anand has shared his scholarship widely as an invited speaker and panelist, with recent talks at the Atlanta Global Studies Symposium, TESOL International Convention, Massachusetts TESOL, the Writing Innovation Symposium, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has also delivered workshops and lectures internationally, including for the University of Delhi, IIT Kanpur, and Shyama Prasad Mukherji College. His professional service includes/(ed) roles with the International Writing Center Association (AI Task Force, Future Leaders Award Committee), the Southeastern Writing Center Association (Georgia State Representative), and editorial leadership with the Journal of Language and Literacy Education.

Currently based in Athens, Georgia, Anand continues to write in English, German, and Hindi, connecting South Asian multilingual and translingual traditions with US writing studies. His scholarship and creative work are animated by a belief that writing centers, classrooms, and scholarly communities can be sites of resistance and reimagination where queer, transnational, and multilingual writerly voices and experiences are valid expressions to research and the US community's imagination.