Ramesh Pokharel

With a long teaching experience at universities, he holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), USA. While at UTEP, he volunteered in the Office of International Programs as an International Representative from Nepal, and in the meantime, he also served a non-profit agency in El Paso community as a translator and grant writer in volunteer service. As a scholar, he presented research papers in several national and international conferences and published many articles in different journals in Nepal and in TESOL Journal, USA. He also served as a reviewer of TESOL Journal, and Journal of International Students. He taught first-year composition and advanced writing courses at UTEP, and first-year writing and literature courses at Texas A & M University, College Station. At University of Houston, he taught first-year writing courses and a course of literature and culture. Recently, he received a PhD in Language and Literacies Education with special focus on Second Language Writing from the University of Toronto.  His research interest includes L2 writing, contrastive rhetoric,  language policy, multilingualism, multiculturalism, critical discourse analysis, critical language policy, ESL, and L2 academic writing. He joined the University of California, Davis, in Fall 2020.