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Saurabh Anand

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Assistant Director - UGA Writing Center
English Composition Instructor

Saurabh Anand (सौरभ आनंद) is a Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D. student. Trained as a TESOL/Applied Linguistic scholar, he has taught German and English in India and the United States, and his research centers on transnational and multilingual writing programs and practices. His work has appeared in the English Journal, Writing Center Journal, College Composition and Communication, Community Literacy Journal, and Modern Language Association. In 2023, he received the Future Leader Award from the International Writing Center Association.

Education:
  • M.A. ENGLISH, 2018-2020 (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
    Department of English, Minnesota State University, Mankato, the United States
  • Diploma in Teaching German as Foreign Language, 2017-2018
    Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India
  • Certificate in Introduction to Hungarian Language, 2015-2016
    Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India
  • B1 Level German Language and Literature, 2014-2016 (as per Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
    Goethe- Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India
Research Interests:

Writing Center Studies, Second Language Writing, World Englishes, and Autoethnography.

Grants:
  • Graduate Student Research Grant, 2022
    Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, University of Georgia.
  • Shelter Projects Micro-fellowship, 2021
    Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, University of Georgia.
Selected Publications:
  • Anand, S. (2023). Seventy-five years. South Florida Poetry Journal. Link
  • Anand, S. (2022). When Poetry Became My Synergistic Approach for Pedagogy and Andragogy. In G. Martínez-Alba, L. J. Pentón Herrera, & E. Trihn (Eds.), Teacher Self-Care and Well-Being in English Language Teaching. Routledge. Link
  • Anand, S. (2022). It was not just a stomachache!. In K. Bista and G.F. Malveaux (Eds), Cross-Cultural Narratives Real Stories and Lived Experiences of Global Scholars. STAR Scholars. 79-82. Link
  • Anand, S. (2021). Teaching Material: How to Cultivate Compare and Contrast Essay Writing using a Narrative Reading. MinneTESOL Journal. 37 (1). Link
  • Anand, S. (2020). Between Languages: From a Multilingual Society to Multilingual Classrooms. Association of Department of English Bulletin, Modern Language Association, 158 (1), 77-82. Link
  • Anand, S. (2019, December), Supporting Multilingual Learners for Transformative Language Learning: A Transnational Pedagogical Reflection. TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section Newsletter. Link
  • Anand, S. (2019, August), The Moral Responsibility of Every English Teacher to Expose Their Students to the Different Versions of the English Language. TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section Newsletter. Link

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