Dr. Priyanka (Priya) Ganguly is an assistant professor in Technical Communication & Rhetoric who earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Writing from Virginia Tech. Her research interests lie at the intersection of rhetorics of health and medicine (RHM), institutional communication, and transnational communication. She is particularly interested in exploring the backstage rhetorics of communication design (broadly defined) in transnational institutional and extrainstitutional contexts. She analyzes the influence of multiple human and non-human components on technical documentation creation (specifically, global public health) using theoretical lenses like assemblage theory, articulation, and agency, as well as qualitative research methods like interviews and focus groups.

Articles

Ganguly, P. (2022). Review of the Statement of Purpose (SP) Genre: A Shared-Understanding of Rhetorical Appeals in Technical Communication SPs. English for Specific Purposes, 68, 1–13. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2022.04.002

Sano-Franchini, J., Jones, A. M., Ganguly, P., Robertson, C. J., Shafer, L. J., Wagon, M., Awotayo, O., & Bronson, M. (2022). Slack, Social Justice, and Online Technical Communication Pedagogy. Technical Communication Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2022.2085809

Ganguly, P. (2021). Rhetorical Style Analysis of the Statement of Purpose (SP) Genre: A Shared Understanding of Lexis in Successful SPs. Xchanges, 16(1), 1–25.

Ganguly, P. (2021). Tweeting Reproductive Justice (RJ) Advocacy through #AbortionMeraHaq: A Social Justice Analysis of Digital RJ-Counterpublics. The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC’21). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473630

Book Chapters

Gerdes, J., Ganguly, P., & Shafer, L. J. (2023). COVID and Disability: Tactical Responses to Normative Vaccine Communication in Appalachia. In E. Winderman, A. L. Rowland, & J. Malkowski (Eds.), Covid and …: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic (pp. 209–234). Michigan State University Press.

Edited Collection

Ewing, T. & Ganguly, P. (2024). Challenging Stories: Rethinking Health in the Spaces between Data and Narrative. Forthcoming. 2024

Assistant Professor
Technical Communication & Rhetoric

Email: prigangu@ttu.edu