PEER-REVIEWED Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Forthcoming

Webb, M., Baniya, S., et al., (2027). Reimagining Information Architecture: Community-Centered and Collaborative Digital Infrastructure in Refugee Service Ecosystems. Computers and Composition. Publication with students

Baniya, S., Sherpa, M., & Rimal, J., (2027). Localizing Humanitarian Action through Women’s Leadership: A Case Study of Nepal’s Humanitarian Partnership Platform. Oxford Disaster Dynamics. Publication with a student and a community partner.

Baniya, S., Webb, M., Scott, L., Williams, C., & East, A., (2027). Enacting Digital Justice in Partnership with Displaced Refugee and Immigrant Communities. In Powell, K, et.al., (Eds) Critical Displacement Studies Reader. Virginia Tech Publishing. Publication with students and a community partner.

Baniya, S., Narrative Inquiry & Social Network Analysis (2027). In Feigenbaum, A., & Demirkol-Tonnesen, O. (Eds). Social Media Methods Workbook. Routledge.

Special Issue

Tham, J., & Baniya, S., (2026). Looking Back, Writing Forward: Reflections and Revisitations in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum. Special 25th Anniversary Issue of Xchanges journal

Published

Wagnon, M, and Baniya, S., (2026). Protesting Locally, Impacting Globally: Rhetorical Narratives of Mountain Valley Pipeline Activists. Technical Communication Quarterly, 35(2), 190–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.2441122. Publication with a student

Webb, M., Baniya, S., Smith, A., Rasberry, N., & Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, I. (2026). US Hospital Educators’ Technology Needs: A Qualitative Study for Developing Action-Oriented Technology. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2026.3658847 Publication with students

Baniya, S., Powell, K., Salem, A., Webb, M., & Scott, L. (2025). Incorporating Community Knowledge in Design: A Reflective Account of Designing Technology with Justice. In J. Tham & J. Zhang (Eds). Designing for Social Justice: Community-engaged Approaches to Technical and Professional Communication. Routledge ATTW Book Series (Invited) Publication with students and a community partner

Webb, M., Singh, H., Inman, R., Baniya, S., & Katz, A. (2025). Advancing qualitative analysis in professional disaster and risk communication: A comparative study of an OpenAI ChatGPT 3.5 model-enabled method for processing complex public discourse. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 130, 105835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105835 Publication with students

Baniya, S., (2025). Intersectional Disaster Response in the Globalized World Via Equitable Crisis Communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 39(3), 302-337. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/10.1177/10506519251326565

Baniya, S., (2025). Transnational Crisis Communication and Ethics. In D. Ross (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Technical and Professional Communication. Routledge. Pg. 347-356

Baniya, S., & Pokharel, B. (2025). Humanitarianism & Volunteerism. In L. Juran & B. K, Paul (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Response and Recovery.

Baniya, S., (2025) Social Media as an Avenue for Social Change in TPC. In N. Jones, A. Haas, L. Gonzales, M. Williams (Eds). Routledge Handbook on Technical & Professional Communication.

Al-Khateeb, M. T., Baniya, S., Dingo, R., & Nish, J. (2025). Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Solidarities in the Viral Circulations of the LasTesis and Jina Movements. In J. Rhodes, J & S.N. Cooley (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric. Routledge. Pg. 7-17.

Walwema, J., Edwards, J., Sano-Franchini, J., Baniya, S., &. (2025). Social Justice and Intercultural Issues in Service Learning. Programmatic Perspective. 16(1).

Chen, J., Pandey, S., & Baniya, S., (2025). Navigating Immigration as an Alien: Discursive Interface Analysis of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

Walzer, B., Garban, T.S., Nish, J., & Baniya, S. (2025). Transdisciplinary Contiguities and Disjunctures: The Present and Future of Transnational Feminist Rhetorics. Peitho, 27(3), 105-113.

Baniya, S., & Potts, L. (2024). Role of Translation in Disaster Response. Journal of Technical Communication and Social Justice, 2 (1). Special Issue on Social Justice and Translation in Technical Communication.

Baniya, S., (2024) #RageAgainstRape: Nepali Women’s Assemblage and Networked Performances Against Rape. In Lisa Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Bates (Eds.), Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts. Ohio State University Press. Pg. 172-188

Baniya, S. (2024). Community Engagement. In J. Tham (Ed.), Keywords in Design Thinking: A Primer for Makers, Designers, & Technical Communicators. Parlor Press.

Baniya, S., (2022). Rethinking Access: Recognizing Privileges and Positionalities in Building Community Literacy. Community Literacy Journal, 17(1), 49-64.

Baniya, S. (2022). Transnational Assemblages in Disaster Response: Networked Communities, Technologies, and Coalitional Actions During Global Disasters. Technical Communication Quarterly, 31(4), 326–342.

Baniya, S., (2022). How Can Technical Communicators Help in Disaster Response? Technical Communications, 69 (2).

Baniya, S., Edwards, J., Sano-Franchini, J., & Walwema, J. (2022). Revisiting SL in TPC Through Social Justice and Intercultural Frameworks: Findings From Survey Research. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(3), 353–369.

Baniya, S., Brien, A., Call, K., Kumar, R., (2022) Covid, International Partnerships, and the Possibility of Equity: Enhancing Digital Literacy in Rural Nepal amid a Pandemic. Reflections, 21 (1). Publication with students and a community partner.

Baniya, S., Brein, A., & Call, K. (2021). International Service Learning in Technical Communication during a Global Pandemic. Programmatic Perspectives, 12(2), 26–58. Publication with students.

Baniya, S., (2021). The Implication of Transnational Activism and Disaster Response for Global Social Justice. Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal.

Baniya, S., & Chen, C. (2021). Experiencing a Global Pandemic: The Power of Public Storytelling as Counternarrative in Crisis Communication. Technical Communication (pp. 74-87).

Baniya, S., & Potts, L., (2021). Valuing Expertise During the Pandemic. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 35(1) 28-34.

Sherman, D., Mentzer, N., Baniya, S., Bartholomew, S., & Laux, D. (2021). Across the Disciplines: Our Gained Knowledge in Assessing a First-Year Integrated Experience. International Journal of Technology and Design Education.

Baniya, S., Doan, S., Kumari, A., Johnson, G. P., & Schwarz, V. M. (2021). Coalitional literacies of digital safety and solidarity: A white paper on nextGEN international listserv. Computers and Composition, 62.

Baniya, S. (2020). Managing Environmental Risks: Rhetorical Agency and Ecological Literacies of Women During the Nepal Earthquake. Enculturation, 32.

Baniya, S. (2020). Rhetorical Comparison of Hindu God Krishna and Plato: An Exploration of Non-Western Hindu Rhetoric. In K. Lloyd. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion of Comparative and World Rhetorics, pp. 164-172. Routledge.

Bartholomew, S.R., Mentzer, N, Jones, M., Sherman, D., & Baniya, S., (2020) Learning by Evaluating (LbE) through Adaptive Comparative Judgment. International Journal of Technology and Design Education.

Parupudi, T., Sherman, D., Mentzer, N., Chesley, A., Baniya, S., & Laux, D. (2020) Oral Communication in an Integrated STEM and Humanities First-Year Experience. Journal of Technology Education, 32 (1), 50-64.

Kumari, A., Baniya, S., & Larson, K. (2020).  The Necessity of Genre Disruption in Organizing an Advocacy Space for and by Graduate Students. Xchanges, 15 (1), 1-8.

Baniya, S., Chesley, A., Mentzer, N., Bartholomew, S., Moon, C., & Sherman, D. (2019). Using Adaptive Comparative Judgment in Writing Assessment: An Investigation of Reliability Among Interdisciplinary Evaluators. Journal of Technological Studies, 45 (2), 24-45.

Baniya S., & Weech, S. (2019). Data and Experience Design: Negotiating Community-Oriented Digital Research with Service-Learning. Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, 6,11–16. https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284316979

Baniya, S.; Diab, K; Hendrickson, B; Grayson, M.L; Holly, H; Kumari, A; Larson, K; Messina, C.M; Paul, G; Ruiz, I. (2019) “Where we Are: Dialogue and Disciplinary Space.” Composition Studies, 47 (2): 203–210.

Baniya, S. (2015). Performance of Rituals in Shaping Nepalese Woman’s Sexuality. Discourses on Folklore Kathmandu International Folklore Congress. Nepali Folklore Society, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Jones, D., Trice, M., Potts, L., & Baniya, S. (2023). Methodologies for When the Platform is on Fire. Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 246–247.

Baniya, S., & Potts., L. Experts, Knowledge Making, and Disaster Across Twitter 2022.  SIGDOC ’22: Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.

Smith, A., Ranade, N., Baniya, S., Local users, global takeaways: Methodological considerations for audience advocacy in communication design research. Proceedings of SIGDOC Conference 2021.

Baniya, S., Hutchinson, L, Kumari, A, Larson, K, Lindgren, C. (2019). Representing Diversity in Digital Research: Digital Feminist Ethics and Resisting Dominant Normatives. Computers and Writing 2018 Conference Proceedings.

Baniya, S. (2019). Comparative Study of Networked Communities, Crisis Communication, and Technology: Rhetoric of Disaster in Nepal Earthquake and Hurricane Maria. In proceedings of SIGDOC Conference, Portland, OR Sigdoc 2019.

Baniya, S., Mentzer, N., Sherman, D., Laux, D., Farrington, S., Holtan, A., Eden, C., & Zhang, L. Creating Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching/learning Praxis with Design Thinking, Communication, and Composition. In proceedings of SIGDOC Conference, Portland, OR.

Chesley, A., Parupudi, T., Baniya, S., Farrington, S., Holtan, A., Eden, C., Laux, D., & Mentzer, N. (2018) Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, Integrated Curriculum, and Professional Development. In ASEE IL/IN Regional Conference Proceedings. 10.5703/1288284316848.

Publications and Conference Presentations by Graduate and Undergraduate Mentees

Graduate Student Publications & Presentation from Rhetoric(s) in Global Society Course at Virginia Tech

  1. Ganguly, P., (2021). Tweeting Reproductive Justice (RJ) Advocacy through #AbortionMeraHaq. In Proceedings of SIGDOC Conference 2021
  2. Shafer, S., (2021). Substance Abuse: Avenues for Identity Articulation, Coalition Building, and Support During COVID-19. In Proceedings of SIGDOC Conference 2021
  3. Ganguly, P. (2021). #AbortionMeraHaq: When Transcultural Community Writers Mediate Reproductive Injustice Digitally through Coalitional Action. Presentation at Coalition of Community Writing Conference 2021

Undergraduate Journal Publications at Virginia Tech and Purdue University & Beyond

  1. Call, Kylie. (2021). The Importance of Needs Assessments in Global Technical Communication. Instructional Design & Learning Special Interest Group, Society of Technical Communication. (Winner of competition) Link: https://tinyurl.com/4rjyd34h
  2. Call, Kylie. (2021). Strategies for International Communication Design. In proceedings of SIGDOC Conference 2021.
  3. Bach, S. Our house is on fire”: Three Rhetorical Findings from Youth Climate Activists, an Emerging Discourse Community. Young Scholars in Writing. Forthcoming
  4. Chaube, P. (2020). Importance and Challenges of International Service-learning. Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement., 7, (1), 19-27. DOI: 10.5703/1288284317230
  5. Auckley D., & Harber, J. (2019). Caregiver Companion: A Service-Learning Initiative in Tippecanoe County. Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, 6, (1), 4–10. https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284316978
  6. Yee, M., (2019). From Mugshots to Masterpieces: Identities Revealed Through Immigration Portraits of the Chinese Exclusion Era. Young Scholars in Writing, 17, 127-136.
  7. Baniya, S., Brien, A., Call, K., Kumar, R., (2021) Serving Internationally: Enhancing Digital Literacy in Rural Nepal amid a Pandemic. Reflections. Accepted
  8. Baniya, S., Brien, A., Call, K., Rethinking Service Learning in Technical Communication via Global Engagement in the Post-Pandemic Context. Programmatic Perspective 2021 Special Issue, Administering TPC Programs in Times of Crisis. November, 2021

Undergraduate Conference Presentations at Virginia Tech and Purdue University

  1. Call, K., (2021). Strategies for International Communication Design. Undergraduate Poster Competition. SIGDOC Conference
  2. Doyle, A., (2021). Content and Rhetorical Analysis of News and Twitter: Crisis Response to the Beirut Explosion. CCCCs Undergraduate Research Poster Competition.
  3. Baniya, S., Kumar, R., Call, K & Brien, A. (2021). Empowering Rural Nepali Community via Digital Literacy: Rethinking Access and Social Justice in the Pandemic. Coalition of Community Writing Conference. (Presenting together with me and community partner)
  4. Baniya, S., Auckely, D., Harber, J., (March 2019). Engaging with Community via Digital Communication Practices: A Reflection on Service-Learning Oriented Business Writing Class. Engagement Summit 2019, Lafayette, IN.

Multimodal Productions

Audio/ Podcast:

Baniya, S. (2019). Sue Wells Interview in Eric Detweiler’s RSA Oral History Initiative, Retrieved from http://rheteric.org/oralhistory/items/show/19

Baniya, S. (2019). Roundtable on Inaugural RSA Institute in Eric Detweiler’s RSA Oral History Initiative, Retrieved from http://rheteric.org/oralhistory/items/show/9  Baniya, S. (2017).Reminiscing 20 years of #FemRhet with Dr. Jennifer Bay,” in CWSHRC blogpost for Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference 2017, Dayton, OH.  https://tinyurl.com/yxjqzg24

Blogposts:
 
Baniya, S & Chapman, R. FemRhet2017 Recap Day One. Retrieved from: https://tinyurl.com/y3gnb9e9
Baniya, S. (2016). Enhancing construction skills to help Nepali earthquake victims build back better. Retrieved From https://tinyurl.com/yxvnhbu5  (400,000 hits record on the European Union website and 26.000 likes EU Facebook
Pictorial Book:  o   Baniya, S. (2016). Nepal Earthquake Recovery Project: Pictorial Book [PDF}. Retrieved From https://tinyurl.com/y2au4xta
Documentary: Baniya, S. (2016). Nepal: Building Back Better. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y392tohy
Baniya, S. (2016). Nepal: One year of Bringing Relief. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y3xg2z4a Baniya, S. (2015). Changing Self-Changing Community. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMymoSrUYY