Our Faculty

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

Manivannan, V. (2014, June 6). Computers & Writing. Autonomy in the hivemind: 4chan's archival economy and archaeology of memory. Washington State University

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"