Dr. Thir Budhathoki is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana. He earned his Ph. D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English from the University of Arizona and Master's in English from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. Before moving to the US, he served as a lecturer and an assistant professor of English in Nepal.
As a multilingual speaker who learned English as a foreign language, Dr. Budhathoki explores the role of linguistic and cultural differences in college writing instruction, focusing on how student writers cultivate rhetorical agency while navigating these dynamics in the unprecedented era of generative AI technologies.
His work has been published in journals such as Composition Studies, Literacy in Composition Studies, Composition Forum, and Technical Communication Quarterly as well as in various edited collections.
At the University of Southern Indiana, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on rhetoric, composition, and professional and technical writing.
