Dr. Sweta Gyanu Baniya
@Sunkesharee
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Assistant Professor of Rhetoric @ Virginia Tech. Researches disasters & communication, non-western and feminist rhetorics. First book out in July, 2024
Blacksburg and Kathmandu
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*MY BOOK IS PUBLISHED* *Download it for FREE*
Transnational Assemblages: Social Justice and Crisis Communication during Disaster
Link to download:
Cover photo:
@kishor_ksg
(Thank you)
I dedicate the book to the participants of this study!
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Thank you for all your wishes. I passed my PhD defense and now I am Dr. Baniya 🙃
I am privileged enough to finish my PhD amid the
#Covid19
crisis. I wore my pink sari and chaubandi choli for my defense and my wonderful bf made a pink cake for celebration.
#PurdueDiaries
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Today, I officially start my job as Assistant Professor at
@virginia_tech
🙂. I am very excited and nervous. Mostly, the transition from grad student to a faculty is difficult in my head. I feel extremely blessed (privileged) to get this position in this crisis.
#VTDiaries
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I took this video yesterday at Art Institute of Chicago where stolen piece of our Taleju Bhawani (our Goddess ) from Nepal is openly displayed
@artinstitutechi
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Dear
@artinstitutechi
SIX months ago we raised out voice asking you to return our Goddess’ necklace. It is still here when I visited today.
We all are wondering when will our Goddess get back what is hers.
Cc
@MofaNepal
@USAmbNepal
@USEmbassyNepal
@UNESCO
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Happy News:
I am joining
@virginia_tech
‘s English department
@VTenglish
as an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Prof Tech Writing starting this Fall.
My biggest gratitude goes to my advisor, my partner 💕, my mentors, my girl squad, and
@PurdueWLab
#PurdueDiaries
🙂
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Tomorrow, I will defend my PhD dissertation and I am feeling like SLC examination that I took in 2004. SLC used to be an annual 10th-grade exam after which you can chase your dreams. I am feeling similar anxiety, happiness, excitement, joy. A conundrum of emotions
#PurdueDiaries
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So Excited to Share my first single-authored journal publication
"Managing Environmental Risks in the Age of Climate Change: Rhetorical Agency and Ecological Literacies of Transnational Women During the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake"
Link:
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I realized since May 2018: I have won 15 grants, awards, and fellowships.Clue is: I apply to everything I am eligible for and hope for the best. As an international student, I feel pressured to be visible in the field. Even if I don't win, people will still read my application :)
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Today I was awarded with Excellence in Outreach and International Initiatives from
@VT_LiberalArts
College!
Thank you my mentors, friends, and collaborators!
This award is dedicated to all the community partners that I work together with to combat global challenges!!
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Hindu Goddess Taleju Bhawani’s necklace @ Art Institute of Chicago
My heart decided to bow down and pray ~ while we can only visit Nepal’s Taleju temple once a year ~ here in Chicago it is accessible to all the visitors. 🤔🤔🥺🥺🧐🧐
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Taleju Bhawani’s necklace is not just a necklace~ it is a worshipped piece and it has religious, cultural, and spiritual importance!
@artinstitutechi
doesn’t want to recognize that and is keeping our sacred worshipped piece inside a square glass box!
Please RETURN this to us
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My university recognized my work and published my story today via
@vtnews
I know there are a lot of coverages happening! However, my ultimate wish is that the necklace would be returned.
Please help us put pressure on
@artinstitutechi
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Woke up with a publication today :)
#OnlineFirst
via
@tcquarterly
Transnational Assemblages in Disaster Response:
Networked Communities, Technologies, and
Coalitional Actions During Global Disasters
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Did formal engagement ceremony and Dashain tika today!
Happy Dashain everyone ❤️
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Attending my first Pride Parade in Nepal - So Exciting! Found
@MinchyaaMeyju
here!!
@PrideParadeNp
Come and join us!!
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Nepali media continues to sensationalize womens' bodies for more clicks and for moral policing.
✅Taking Birth Control Pills is our right and decision
✅Chosing however many sexual partners is our decision
✅Dating as many people as we want online/offline is our decision
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Have been fangirling
@LizaPotts
for the past 4 years and now I got to co-author and publish an article with her!
#womeninTC
Thank you
@jhfrith
for making this happen!
Here's the link:
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Personal News (:
My Boyfriend is Engaged to me
Cheers to a new beginning (:
(Yes of course Bridgeton Reference)
#Engaged
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1) International students are a minority, often vulnerable due to the atrocious administrative policies that are always there and further modified to threaten their education, safety, and mental well-being.
#StudentBan
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Ama, Daddy, and Award (:
As a first gen PhD, often times it is very confusing for my parents to understand what’s conference, what am I doing there etc. As CPTSC was nearby where they live, I took them and they saw me being awarded (:
#CPTSC19
Thank you for recognition 🙂
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As
#COVID19
pandemic continues ~
My PhD Defense will be online 🤪
And, my commencement (graduation ceremony) is cancelled and may be online 🤪
My father: But you will still pass and be a Dr. without ceremony right?
#FirstGenPhDparents
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I think I want to celebrate four citations on my Google scholar that aren’t just me citing myself 😬
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Dc was incredibly pretty and pink so I matched with the trees!
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100 citations
A lot by me citing myself and some by others 🩷
Balloons make me happy hehe
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Coming soon...! Summer 2024!
Cover photo by dear friend Kishor Sharma
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On the day of Nawami today, I want to remind that Taleju Bhawani’s necklace is still in Chicago and has not been returned yet.
I took this video yesterday at Art Institute of Chicago where stolen piece of our Taleju Bhawani (our Goddess ) from Nepal is openly displayed
@artinstitutechi
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Wrapping up my Spring on a good note with a new publication 🥰
I would like to thank Dr Miriam Williams for inviting me to submit my article and thoroughly guiding me. Thanks to reviewers for feedback!
#NepalEarthquake2015
#HurricaneMaria2017
#CrisisCommunication
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Woke up with a rejection letter for an article but reviewers did a wonderful job with comments that are encouraging and gives direction on what to do next. That's the kind of feminist reviewer I want to be - encouraging, kind,and helpful.
#ShareRejection
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The Art Institute of Chicago is still openly displaying the stolen necklace of Taleju Bhawani.
My friend Chen sent me this photo today from Chicago saying the necklace is still here!
When will you return our Goddess’ necklace
@artinstitutechi
??
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Friends,
I am no longer an alien in this country and now I am a new immigrant.
US government recognized me as an outstanding professor and gave me permanent residency!
Now I can work work at Walmart if I leave academia 😭😭
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Nepal Wants a Sacred Necklace Returned. But a Major Museum
@artinstitutechi
Still Keeps It on Display
And, blames Nepal for lack of evidence while on display it says its from Nepal
Read news story on
@propublica
written by
@ElyssaCherney
Link:
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We (
@pritisha_prisha
) and I survived a flash flood after a big earthquake today.
@Hello_Sarkar
Can we have an outlet for the rain please
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Very excited to share new publication with
@chenchen328
Experiencing a Global Pandemic: The Power of Public Storytelling as Antenarrative in Crisis Communication
We had such a wonderful experience working together as well as working with the special issue editors.
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My fiancé made some Nepali donuts for me!! Our house smells like the local donut shops in Nepal and my heart is so full and happy 😆
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Very excited to share my new publication along with my undergrad research assistants -- "International Service Learning in Technical Communication during a Global Pandemic" which features our work and partnership with
@codefornepal
Link to download:
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Today I am including
@prabalgurung
‘s fashion show in my lecture.
My PhD students in my grad class will be discussing transnational publics and I am excited to hear what they will have to say 🥰🥰
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Saying hi to my new friend abd their family of four who visited us during ghar puja (house worship) today
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My
#PurdueDiaries
is coming to an end ☺️ after four years~ it is bittersweet. The joy that I felt the first day I came for my
#PhDQuest
was one of my happiest moments 🙃
Now, it is time to close down my
#PurdueDiaries
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My 66 year old Dijju (aunt) is starting her education with basic Nepali letters. She goes to an adult class nearby & is happy to study and shares how my grandpa never sent her to school but her bros. It is never too late.
#Educatewomen
#Sendgirlstoschool
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My mother wants a stack of my business cards to distribute to her friends - I asked why and she says to tell people my daughter is getting a PhD 🤪🤪
#FirsrgenerationPhDdaughter
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Today I was asked how could I even get a job as a Professor and how that job mean that I teach English and how could I even teach English 🥴🤔🤔🧐🧐
I wonder why is it shocking for people.
What could be the reasons? Wrong answers only please 🥴
#AcademicChatter
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Thankful for being recognized for my dissertation work 🥰
🏆
@Sunkesharee
's dissertation, which analyzed crisis communication and rhetoric during the Nepal Earthquake and Hurricane Maria, won one of only two Honorable Mentions for the 2021
@NCTE_CCCC
Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication!
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I am eating my feelings today!
This summer I have 3 rejections from 3 different journals I have sent my articles to!
I am sad but happy to eat and digest these feelings for now!
Can you all share what do you do when you get rejections?
I know it is part of academia
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Return Taleju Bhawani’s Necklace to Nepal
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Where did this person who sexually assaulted me 8/9 years ago get courage to follow me on Twitter after I had blocked him on Facebook for years! This made me anxious whole day! We need to rage against all these assaults!
#RageAgainstRape
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Thank you friends and family and mentors and birds and horses and everything /everyone around me for bringing me joy!!
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Presses around the world have published this story! Everyone knows
@artinstitutechi
has not returned our Goddess’s necklace! What else the Institute wants?
Why this silence? Why keeping something that doesn’t belong to them?
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My driving radius is 5-10 miles or maximum 30.
But I drove 270 miles today to get a step ahead in my immigration journey.
I was so nervous and scared but my partner, friends kept on encouraging me and I succeeded!! ❤️💜 them
Drove five hours + then came to support horses!
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Happy to share that I am one of the recipients of the
@NCTE_CCCC
2019 CCCCs Scholar for Dream Awards.
Thank you,
@SDoanut
,
@LitaStarr
for reading and providing feedback on my abstract and
@ZMoeg
for sending me your abstract.
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When I started my job at
@VTenglish
I kept on thinking how do I continue giving back to community in Nepal
Here is an exhibition about my students’ work & partnership with
@codefornepal
Ut Prosim Beyond Boundaries: Global Outreach During the Pandemic
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This is my first academic publication in the US Academia and this has been already cited by
@LizaPotts
someone who has inspired me and my research. I was almost in tears when she asked me for citing my article. Luckily, this was on progress.
#CiteGraduateStudent
#Citewomanofcolor
So proud to have my third publication be with these incredible scholars:
@LitaStarr
@Sunkesharee
@techairos
@lndgrn
. Such an amazing collaboration! You can now read it here:
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Hi All,
@mail2neeti
and I would like to invite you for a Webinar on "How Women Across the World are Coping, Managing, and Resisting Covid-19"
Date: Dec 07, 2020
Time: 9:00-10:30 AM EST, (2 PM GMT)
All are welcome & registration is required:
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Thank you all for your best wishes and congratulations! The real work begins now and I am having mixed emotions ☺️ ~ Also a note- PhD is sometimes really happy and sometimes totally depressing~ so here’s flower power 🙃 to me and to all of you!
#PurdueDiaries
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It is one year anniversary of buying our house & we finally did a puja with Blacksburg Nepali community. It was very special with food, bhajans, dancing, Bhagvad Gita recital!
I had wanted to do puja year ago but last year was a roller coaster & yesterday was the right moment!
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More arts from 17th/19th century Nepal
@artinstitutechi
(They seem like “private collections but gifted”)
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I want to honor the person who struggled so hard to get that 50 percent to get that scholarship and is still pushing hard and isn’t giving up on their dreams, while his privileged peers have already succeeded.
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Excited to share my collaborative article with two undergraduate students and our dear community partner
@RaviNepal
Here's the link:
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Wonderful Date with the bf in DC 🥰🙃
Anacostia River and the setting sun view 🥰
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Student evaluation notification races my heart so badly
Each semester at Purdue, I'd received one comment directed towards my Eng language abilities and how I shouldn't be allowed to teach 🥴
Hence, student evals are traumatic 🥴 bt they are valuable for tenure (except this sem)
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Happy Nepali New Year to everyone celebrating! 🎉🎈🎊
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I found a ladybug. Sorry to disturb you, mam!
Settling down in Blacksburg 😇
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How else would I have worn my pink hat and pink mittens? ❄️❄️❄️
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Very excited to be Co-PI in this $5 million grant funded by USAID and work with our colleagues from India and to make resources for DRR
I am thankful for this opportunity to work with Tom Archibald who has been an incredible leader and P.I.
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Thank you so so much Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal. As well as
@registandiary
@AlishaSijapati
and
@kashishds
who helped my tweet reach out to hundreds of thousands of people!
Thank you for circulating this important piece of information regarding the lost necklace of
#Taleju
Bhawani on display at
@artinstitutechi
. We have asked
@nepalembassyusa
and Dept of Archaeology to take necessary steps ahead for its recovery.
@RBMahaseth
@PaudyalBR
@sewa_lamsal
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My mentee and colleague
@rhetorrican
and I just received a small grant to support two community-based organizations in Puerto Rico who are supporting Hurricane Maria affected communities in PR. We are so excited 😊
#communityengagement
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I really wish I had gotten some statistical training and quantitative data analysis training 😩😩😩
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Art Institute in Chicago
@artinstitutechi
should return our Goddess’ necklace home
#ReturnStolenArt
Read
@registandiary
‘s report here!
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Hi Everyone,
Now you can pre-order my book: Transnational Assemblages: Social Justice and Crisis Communication during Disaster via the link below:
This beautiful cover photo is by my dear friend
@kishor_ksg
Link:
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I am honored to share about my upcoming book project at the Department of Gender Studies at Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
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As I am recover from Covid-19, I’m very frustrated with my loss of taste as I cannot taste anything! I’m trying my best to remember the taste of food but I can’t and it is frustrating! I ate my favorite burger dinner and I CANNOT taste anything 😵💫😤
Here’s some bells for hope
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My undergraduate student/Research Assistant Kylie Call won a writing competition organized by
@stc_org
's SIG
She wrote an award-winning article on "The Importance of Needs Assessments in Global Technical Communication"
Link
@VTenglish
@VT_LiberalArts
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Nearly after two years of disturbed sleep, this week I slept all days without popping melatonin or Benadryl. I feel so rested, so relieved, and so light.
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Our Blacksburg Nepali community comes together to do Bhagvad Recital and we sing and dance!! I feel so lucky to be part of this holy hindu experience!
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Very excited to share this publication with
@gavyJ
@LitaStarr
@SDoanut
@oreoturtle
Incredibly thankful to
@DuqLibArtsDean
for her guidance and support throughout.
Download your copies to know more about our work about
@nextGEN_RC
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Finally after three weeks I might be out of Covid…! I could do a short hike to Cascades Fall 🤩
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It is already Feb 02 in Nepal 🥰🥰 we started celebrating just about a week ago 🤣 because why not!
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I made many scarfs for my friends and now decided to make one for myself 😍
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So proud of my dear feminist
@pritisha_prisha
on presenting her awesome work on citizenship issue in Nepal. She won Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Award
@CFSHRC
~ so well deserved <3
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This square is growing to become a blanket or odhni 🙂
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Entitled and misogynistic Nepali men get space in Nepali media to yak bullshit and bully women so freely without any fear of repercussions. It’s because there are none right? These unacceptable chauvinistic behavior are acceptable even if they cause severe harm to woman! UGH 🤦🏻♀️
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PSA: If you are chair or member of an intl student and they are on job market and if they are denied job because of visa issue—know that you as chair or committee mem have responsibility of calling the Search Committee/chair/Dean to put pressure on them to sponsor visa for them
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I sometimes think that my PhD advisor is the best life coach I have ever had (including the dissertation supervision). And, I feel lucky in that regard. I have never publicly shared this but I think he deserves to be celebrated on Twitter as he isn't on any social media :D :D
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