Parva Panahi
She/Her
- Assistant Professor
Recent and upcoming courses
Fall 2024
Spring 2025
Biography
Parva Panahi is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Language at Metro State University, where she teaches courses in academic writing and research. She holds a doctorate degree in English, with a primary specialization in second language studies and a secondary specialization in composition and rhetoric, from Purdue University.
Parva's scholarship broadly centers on writing studies, and her specific areas of interest include multilingual writing/literacy, writing pedagogy education, the internationalization of U.S. writing programs, and the development of cross-cultural competence, as a 21st century competency, in undergraduate writing education. Parva has presented at numerous national and international conferences, and her most recent work has appeared in several journals, including TESOL Journal and Writing & Pedagogy, as well as in edited collections published by Modern Language Association and The University of Michigan Press.
Parva has extensive experience working with students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds and has taught across multiple educational settings both within and outside the United States.
Research Focus:
- multilingual writing/literacy
- writing pedagogy education
- writing program administration
- internationalizing the writing curriculum
Selected Publications:
- 2022 with Hadi Banat, Phuong Tran, Rebekah Sims, and Bradley Dilger. "Transnational Curriculum Design for Intercultural Learning in Writing Programs." In B. Horner & C. Donahue (Eds.), Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition. Modern Language Association.
- 2022 with Rebekah Sims, Hadi Banat, Phuong Tran, and Bradley Dilger. "Illuminative Evaluation of the Pilot Implementation of an Intercultural Competence Focused First-Year Writing Curriculum." Writing & Pedagogy, 14(1), 103-127.
- 2021 "A multilingual Orientation to Preparing Graduate Teaching Assistants to Teach Argumentation in First-Year Writing Programs." In A. Hirvela & D. Belcher (Eds.), Argumentative Writing in a Second Language: Perspectives on Research and Pedagogy (pp. 115-132). University of Michigan Press.
- 2021 with Hadi Banat, Rebekah Sims, Phuong Tran, and Bradley Dilger. "Developing Intercultural Competence Through a Linked Course Model Curriculum: Mainstream and L2-specific First-Year Writing." TESOL Journal, 13(1), 1-16.
- 2019 with Tony Silva, Yachao Sun, Kyle Lucas, and Qiusi Zhang. "Scholarship on L2 Writing in 2018: The Year in Review." SLW News.
