Uma S. Krishnan
Dr. Uma S. Krishnan is a Professor at 5X社区. She is the Director of the Writing Internship Program and serves as the Professional and Technical Advisor for students in the Department of English. She is also an honorary faculty in the Religion Studies-Minor Program. In addition to her academic work, she is the Member at Large for Global & Non-Western Rhetorics, a Standing Group in the Conference of College of Composition and Communication.
Dr. Krishnan teaches many different courses from basic to advanced Composition Courses, Professional Writing, How to Edit Professionally, How to write Books and Beyond, Editing and Publishing, Honors Colloquium, Global Rhetoric, South Asian Studies, Ethnic and Indigenous Literacy Practices, Indian Literature, Nyaya Logic to Hindi Language. Her thirst for learning and knowledge building, her varied research interests, and her approach to teaching and sharing information has won her many laurels. She has presented many papers on literacy, composition studies, language acquisition, Nyaya Sutra (Eastern) and Western rhetoric, ethnic literacy and social practices at various national and international conferences and universities. She has published her work by contributing articles to journals and books. She recently published her book, which is based on her Ethnographic case study on the Literacy Practices of The Mumbai Dabbawalas, India.
Recent Publications:
Krishnan, Uma, S. Literacy Practices of The Mumbai Dabbawalas, India: Writing an Ethnographic Case Study. Peter Lang Group, 2025.
Krishnan, Uma, S. 鈥淧refatory Introduction.鈥 Global Rhetorical Traditions. edited by Tarez Graban and Hui Wu, Southern Illinois University Press, 2022.
Krishan, Uma. S. 鈥淐ollege Freshmen Challenging Embodied Environmental Risks.鈥 Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Problems and Solutions towards Social Sustainability. Eds. Samuel Stinson and Mary Le Rouge; New York: Routledge, 2022.
Krishnan, Uma. S. Contributed annotation to An Annotated Bibliography of Global and Non-Western Rhetorics: Sources of Comparative Rhetorical Studies. Edited by Nicole Khoury and Tarez Graban (2020-2021).
Krishnan, Uma. S. 鈥淟iteracy Practices in lunch Pails: Invisible Literacies of the Dabbawalas.鈥 Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives. Eds. Patrick Thomas and Pamela Takayoshi. New York: Routledge, 2015. Print.
Awards/Achievements
- Undergraduate Mentoring Award, 2020
- Mothers, Mentors, and Muses Honoree, 2019
- Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Education Abroad, 2018
- CCCC James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), 2016
- Toerne Dissertation Award, 2014
- Excellence in Education Honorees, Ohio Magazine, 2014
- Outstanding Teaching Award, 2013
- National Recognition, Produced the STARTALK Online Language Video, 2010