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Assistant Professor
Dr. Munira Mutmainna is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Core Studies at St. John’s University. Her research focus and interests include technical communication for multilingual and multicultural communities, marginalized and underrepresented groups in the U.S., narrative and community-based research, with secondary interests in multimodal rhetoric and composition, patient-centered design and learning experience design. Dr. Mutmainna is dedicated to leveraging her expertise with diverse and underrepresented communities to enhance accessibility and inclusion in both her pedagogy and research.
Writing: Pixels, Pages and Communities with/of Genres
Green, M., Crutcher, V., Lenoir, R., Lune, O., Mutmainna, M., Urvina, G., Schuster, A., & Brown, C. (2024). Methodologies and in/equities: Participatory and narrative approaches to research with marginalized communities. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 7(2).
Mutmainna, M., Meeks, K., & Lawrence, H.L. (under review). Expanding proposal writing pedagogy through network knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
Workshop titled Methodologies and Inequities: Rhetorical Research in Contexts of Precarity, Vulnerability, and Marginalization at the 6th Biennial Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium, Minnesota, 2023
Panel titled “Beyond Compliance: Complex Proposal Writing Research and Pedagogy” at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) 2023 conference, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2023
Seminar titled Graphic Medicine and the Rhetoric of Health at the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute 2023, Pennsylvania, 2023
Paper titled Negotiating Identities and Mental Health for Non-native English-Speaking Graduate Student Instructors at the 2023 Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, George Mason University, 2023
Paper titled A Narrative Inquiry of Health Rhetoric of South-Asian Immigrant Communities in the US Healthcare System at the 2023 Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) Annual Convention, Illinois, 2023
Paper titled Non-Western Rhetoric and the Art of Dissoi Logoi: Conversations in Fan Spaces at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) Annual Conference, Popular Culture Association, 2022
Paper titled Writing in the Pandemic: A Study into L2 Graduate Student Writer Experiences at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference, Las Vegas, 2021
Paper titled Beyond the Report: Unpacking Risk in Public Health Data and Communication at the 5th Biennial Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium, 2021
Workshop titled Engaging the Global: Performing Translingual/Transmodal Pedagogies in Writing Classrooms at the 2019 Conference on College Composition & Communication Annual Convention, Pennsylvania, 2019