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