Saurabh Anand (सौरभ आनंद) is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric and Composition Studies in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, where he is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies. A multilingual writing studies scholar, translator, and writing center administrator, his research examines how writing centers and writing programs produce knowledge about literacy, language, and belonging. His dissertation, Archival Storytelling and the Rhetoric of Disciplinary Memory in The Writing Center Journal, studies forty-five years of the journal as a rhetorical archive shaping the field’s intellectual and pedagogical futures.

Anand’s research and teaching are grounded in multilingualism, transnational writing practices, and equity in higher education. His work on “multilingual tutor labor” has contributed to ongoing conversations in writing center studies. His scholarship has appeared in venues such as Writing Center Journal, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Journal of Writing Analytics, and English Journal. His articles, Decolonizing Tutor and Writing Center Administrative Labor: An Autoethnography of a South Asian Writing Center’s Personnel and Defining and Learning About Multilingual Linguistic and Professional Labor in the Writing Center Context: An Autoethnographic Tutor Perspective, were both nominated for the International Writing Center Association Best Article Award.

As a translator and writing center scholar, Anand brings international writing scholarship into English, including his co-translation of Writing Center Research in German-Speaking Countries: A Survey of Its Current State and Future Directions, published in The Peer Review. He has co-edited writing center and digitalization initiatives titled Digital Literacy, Multimodality, & The Writing Center as the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. His work is commitment to making writing studies accessible across languages, genres, and communities.

His work has been recognized with multiple honors. The WAC Clearinghouse and the Association of Writing Across Curriculum awarded him the 2025 Outstanding Contributions to DEI in the Field Award. The 2024 LGBTQIA+ Advocacy and Leadership Award from NCTE, the 2024 Champion of Equity in Higher Education Award by American Consortium for Equity in Education, and the 2023 Future Leader Award from the International Writing Center Association (2023) are his other recent honors and accolades.

A recipient of Mellon Foundation–supported funding through the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project, Anand is currently working on a public-facing archival project called Traces and Triumphs documenting pre-1980 queer histories in Athens, Georgia. This work reflects his broader commitment to community-engaged scholarship, queer archival recovery, and public humanities. He has also received research support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2024.

Anand is deeply engaged in professional and community service. He serves on the International Writing Center Association AI Task Force, has been a board member of Athens Pride Queer Collective, and contributes as a board member for the Online Writing Center Association.