Ashanka Kumari is a student-focused teacher-scholar, first-generation college graduate, and child of immigrant parents. Her work lives at the intersection of writing, teaching, community, and care, focusing on the hidden curriculum, graduate education, multimodal composition, and feminist and antiracist pedagogies.

Kumari works as Associate Graduate Dean and Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at East Texas A&M University. She also serves as the Topoi, Praxis, and PraxisWiki sections co-editor at Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy as well as in numerous roles on several local, national, and international committees.

She was the inaugural faculty recipient of the 2023 Inclusive Excellence Champion award and a 2023 Barrus Teaching Award recipient at East Texas A&M University (formerly Texas A&M University-Commerce). Her work can be found in numerous scholarly journals and edited collections as well as her co-edited collection Mobility Work in Composition. 

Ashanka Kumari