Publication in Community Literacy Journal
- Post On12/31/2025
- ByShankar Paudel
This is our latest article, co-authored with Raj K. Baral, PhD, titled “Cultivating Sustainability Literacies Through Indigenous Land Stewardship: Some Insights from Nepal,” published in the print version of Community Literacy Journal (CLJ), Issue 20.1, Fall 2025.
This project, which began in late 2024, is deeply personal to me, as it draws on the foundational work of my dissertation on “Indigenous Environmental Justice.” You can currently find the print version on Amazon, and I eagerly anticipate sharing the electronic version upon its release.
A heartfelt thanks to Raj K. Baral for his support throughout this process. I also want to express my gratitude to editors Katie Silvester, Kaylie Fougerousse, Joanna Gordon, and Lydia Nixon, as well as the reviewers, copy editors, and my fellow contributors in this issue. Thank you to the Community Literacy Journal (CLJ) for providing a platform for this important work. And, thanks to my mentor, Dr. Lucía Durá, for always encouraging me to move forward.
Shankar Paudel
यत् भावो – तत् भवति।
My name is Shankar. I am a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies (RWS) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I am also an assistant director in the First-Year Composition program. At UTEP, apart from being a doctoral student, I am working as an instructor of technical writing (RWS-3359) and first-year composition (RWS 1301). I have worked as an assistant director for the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program (2024-2025) and the University Writing Center (2022-2024) for three semesters (2022 Spring, 2023 Fall, and 2024 Spring). Prior to that, I was a graduate consultant at the University Writing Center (UWC) for a year and coordinated the Workshop Committee during that time. In the summer of 2022, I also worked with the School of Nursing at UTEP as a PhD Research Associate. My areas of interest in research and teaching include technical and professional communication, environmental rhetoric and communication, environmental humanities, environmental historiography, rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, and multimodal composition. My dissertation is focused on Indigenous Environmental Justice Communication which involves environmental rhetoric and the field of technical and professional communication. I served as the president of two student organizations at UTEP, Frontera Retorica (a student chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America at UTEP) and Nepali Students Association at UTEP (NSA-UTEP), until July 2025. Internationally, I am associated with the South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR) as an academic counselor and the Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia (CASSA) as a digital consultant and am also involved in various projects led by Prof. Arun Gupto and Prof. Sangita Rayamajhi.