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Vyshali Manivannan

Vyshali Manivannan

Lecturer

Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Location
  • @Pleasantville
    Choate House 255
Office Hours
Westchester

Mon 12:00pm-4:00pm

Fri (by appointment)

Biography


Vyshali Manivannan is a Ph.D. candidate in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University and holds an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her scholarship has appeared in Digital Health, Fibreculture, and Platform, among other journals, and her creative work has been featured in literary magazines such as Consequence, The Fanzine, and DIAGRAM. She was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction and was among those listed in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014” in Best American Essays 2015.

Education


Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) , Rutgers University School of Communication and Information , New Brunswick, NJ
Journalism and Media Studies

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

BA , Dartmouth College , Hanover, NH , 2005
English

Awards and Honors

  • Dept. of Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University, May 4, 2018 - Distinguished Achievement as Part-Time Lecturer
  • Best American Essays 2015, October 6, 2015 - Notable Essay

Publications


Manivannan, V. (2018). I see the world through pain goggles, and you refuse me my visual voice. http://medium.com/@GraphicSocSci/i-see-the-world-through-pain-goggles-and-you-refuse-my-visual-voice-305b8bd310fd

Manivannan, V. “Maybe she can be a feminist and still claim her own opinions?”: The story of an accidental counter-troll. Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression, Hate Speech, and Harassment. .

Manivannan, V. (2017, August). “A way of life that is not entirely unfortunate”: The peripheral cunning of chronic pain. Platform: A Journal of Media and Communication. Vol 8 (Issue 1) http://platformjmc.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/manivannan-august-2017.pdf

Manivannan, V. (2017, May 22). What we see when we digitize pain: The risk of valorizing image-based representations of fibromyalgia over body and bodily experience. Digital Health. http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/M9hxUB648dhQECmkFv5T/full

Manivannan, V. (2015). “Never give 'em what they expect”: The Joker ethos as paradigmatic of lulz on 4chan's /b/. The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime. .

PRESENTATIONS


Manivannan, V. (2018, May 27). Computers & Writing. For high-knowledge threats: A placebo-controlled rhetorical trial to treat aca-trolls. George Mason University

Manivannan, V. (2018, May 3). Robot Coda. Moderator. Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York, NY

Manivannan, V. (2017, June 4). Computers & Writing. From digital activism to trolling (Town Hall). University of Findlay

Manivannan, V. (2017, February 10). Association of Writers and Writing Programs. “I've never heard of that country”: Sri Lankan American writers on shaping an emerging literary identity. Washington DC

Manivannan, V. (2016, May 22). Computers & Writing. Networked bodies/Networked identities: Connecting bodies in digital activism/writing. St. John Fisher College

Manivannan, V. (2015, May 29). Computers & Writing. Teaching tattoos: A body(mod)-focused approach to the composition classroom. University of Wisconsin-Stout

RESEARCH INTEREST


Discourses around the ailing body, biomedical technologies intended to make chronic pain visible, and the ableist imperatives of academic style, as well as the rhetorics of health and medicine and post-truth rhetoric.

ARTISTIC AND PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITS

The Author Draws a Blank
[Creative-Critical Performance] Lancaster, PA, USA

The Author Is in Pain
[Creative-Critical Performance] Lancaster, PA, USA

I 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

Grants, Sponsored Research and Contracts

Manivannan, V. (2015, June 1). “Summer at the Shore” Hybrid Course Development Initiative.
Division of Continuing Studies, Rutgers University , Other , $2,500.00 . Funded,

MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS

  • r.kv.r.y Literary Journal (Interview) [Internet], September 2014
    Interviewed by Mary Krienke about published creative nonfiction essay, "I Am Always in Transition When Disaster Strikes"
  • New York Times: Room for Debate [Newspaper], August 20 2014
    Invited contributor to special issue on trolling, author of "When 'trolling' becomes an umbrella term"
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