Vyshali Manivannan

Faculty Bio

Vyshali Manivannan is an Eelam Tamil American disabled creative-critical writer whose work focuses on Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict and the cultural, embodied nature of chronic pain, intergenerational trauma, and composition.

Awards and Honors

• Rutgers University School of Graduate Studies, 2023, Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award
• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2022, Kairos Scholarship/Research Award for Graduate Students and Adjuncts
• Office of Residential Life and Housing, 2020, “Honoring Excellence” Faculty Award for Supporting Academic Achievement
• Dept. of Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University, 2018, Distinguished Achievement as Part-Time Lecturer
• Best American Essays 2015, 2015, Notable Essay

PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2022
Communication, Information, and Media

M.F.A., Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY, 2007
Fiction Writing

BA, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2005
English

Research Interest

Disability Studies; Rhetorics of Health and Medicine; Cultural Studies; Affect Theory; Intergenerational Trauma; Game Studies; Comics and Animation; Poststructuralism; Postmodernism; AI Refusal

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

The Author Draws a Blank
[Creative-Critical Performance] Lancaster, PA, USAThe Author Is in Pain
[Creative-Critical Performance] Lancaster, PA, USAI am always in transition when disaster strikes/r.kv.r.y. Literary Journal
[Nonfiction - Online Journal] Numerology/DIAGRAM
[Nonfiction - Online Journal] The meaning of a machete/CONSEQUENCE Literary Magazine
[Nonfiction - Print Journal] ThisIsMyManifesto.htm/The Fanzine
[Creative Nonfiction - Online Journal] Notes to self/theNewerYork
[Nonfiction - Online Journal] White van fear/Black Clock
[Nonfiction - Print Journal] I don’t know how to end this
[Author of performance piece] Yoni Ki Baat: South Asian Vagina Monologues, Washington DC

Past Courses

ENG 105: Composition and Rhetoric I (CAP)
ENG 110: Composition
ENG 110: Composition (CAP)
ENG 120: Critical Writing
ENG 201: Writing in the Disciplines
ENG 206: Intro to Writing Studies
ENG 214: Intro to Rhetorical Theory
ENG 322: Advncd Writing: Art of Memoir
ENG 396: Topic: Cultural Rhetorics
LIT 205: Intro to Lit, Culture & Media
LIT 275: Dsblty Stds in Lit & Cltre