Debasmita Roychowdhury

Professor

I love to cook for my family and friends; I like to sing Indian songs; I read everything that catches my interest; I translate Indian literature in English, and I like to travel.

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Contact

Title
Professor
Phone
575-527-7626
Division / Unit
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Department
English

Education / Credentials

  • PhD, Emphases- Language, Literacy, and Culture

Expertise / Teaching

Appointed Reviewer - Institutional Review Board, NMSU (2019-2027)
Leading Member – English Department Student Magazine - Vox
Leading Member - DACC Access and Belonging Council (2019-2026)

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical Media Literacy and Participatory Action Research

Teaching Areas / Courses

  • CCDE 110 (General Composition- fully online, hybrid, face to face)
  • ENGL 2210G (Professional & Technical Communication- fully online, face to face) 
  • ENGL 1110G (Composition 1- fully online, hybrid, face to face)  

Highlights / Accomplishments

Journal Publication - Peer Reviewed

Roychowdhury, D. (2021). An Indian Woman’s Journey through the Academy in America. Women, Gender, and Families of Color, 8(2), 178-185.

Journal Publication - Peer Reviewed

Torres, M.N & Roychowdhury, D. (2020). The unexpected drawbacks of the ‘Digital Revolution’: Critical media literacy through the prism of Bakhtin’s dialogic democratic communications.  In Semеnova, E.A. (Ed.), Collection of Scientific Proceedings of the International Bakhtin Scientific and Practical Conference, 50-60. http://www.art-education.ru/sites/default/files/u22/yubileynyy_bahtinskiy_sbornik_nauchnyh_trudov_konferencii_2020.pdf

Journal Publication - Peer Reviewed

Roychowdhury, D. (2017). Toward Emancipation: Critical Discourse at work in a Composition Classroom. In Orelus P. W. (Ed.), Language, Race, and Power in Schools: A Critical Discourse Analysis (pp. 46-59). New York & London: Rutledge

Journal Publication - Peer Reviewed

Roychowdhury, D. (2015). Conceptualizing Emancipatory Discourse in a Composition Classroom: A Critical Pedagogical Analysis. In Orelus, P. W. & Brock, R. (Eds.), Interrogating Critical Pedagogy: The Voices of Educators of Color in the Movement (pp. 245-252). New York: Rutledge.

I am fiercely passionate about my family, friends, and my work.

- Debasmita Roychowdhury