Biography
Year Admitted: 2022
Interests:
immigration rhetorics, literacy and affect, teaching writing with AI
Bio:
Originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sujash received his BA in English and MA in Education (Truman State University) and an MA in English (Missouri State University). Now he is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His paper “Internationalizing as an Intervention to Assimilative Practices in American Higher Education” has won him a Scholars for the Dream Travel Award in 2024 at the 75th Conference on College Composition and Communication in Spokane, Washington. He teaches Intermediate Composition and at the UW–Madison Writing Center. He has a tabby cat named Toulouse. In his free time Sujash likes to cook and work on photography.
Selected Publications:
Purna, Sujash. “T-Shirts and Becoming” Yalobusha Review, University of Mississippi, Issue 38, 2024, https://yr.olemiss.edu/piece/t-shirts-and-becoming/
Purna, Sujash. “A Colonized Essay with a Swollen-Leg Girl from Arambagh Intersection” Moon City Review, Missouri State University, 2022.
Books:
Azans for the Infidel. Mouthfeel Press, 2023. ISBN-13: 9781957840109
Epidemic of Nostalgia. Finishing Line Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9781646625765
Biriyani: Poems. The Poet’s Haven, 2018. ISBN-13: 9781640920125