Hello! My name is Shyam Sharma (pronounced Sam Surma). I’m a professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric.

Job Title: Professor, Graduate Program Director
Office: Humanities 2109
Phone: 631-632-7389
Email: shyam.sharma@stonybrook.edu

My primary area of specialty is “writing in the disciplines,” or the study/teaching of academic writing with an understand of how members of different fields define, conduct, learn, and teach writing. I’ve also studied and researched, as well as teaching courses, in:

• Writing pedagogy and theory
• New media/multimedia composition
• Rhetorical traditions and practices
• Multilingualism and language policy

Please take a look at shyamsharma.net for more about my work as a teacher, researcher, and academic leader. I had been blogging there before we started using this platform.

Thank you!