Tarez Samra Graban
TAREZ SAMRA GRABAN, Associate Professor (PhD Purdue, 2006; AB Brown, 1993), teaches primarily in the Editing, Writing, and Media undergraduate major and in the Rhetoric and Composition graduate program, and is a Teaching Scholar for the Honors Program. Her current manuscript, “Rhetorika Afrika,” reconceptualizes the transnational archive for scholars who must read and curate their subjects in a critical space occurring somewhere between the North Atlantic and the Global South. She serves on FSU's Faculty Senate Steering Committee; is Chair of the FSU’s Honors Program Policy Committee; is Chair of the CCCC Standing Group on Global & NonWestern Rhetorics; and is past president of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. From 2013 to 2020, she led the Digital Scholars reading group at FSU, and from 2018 to 2021 she was Director of Research and Fellowships with the Demos Project for Studies in the Data Humanities at FSU. Finally, her work continues on Linked Women Pedagogues, tracing the intellectual contributions of underrepresented women teachers in rhetorical studies at home and abroad, from North America’s Progressive Era to the present.
Books
- Global Rhetorical Traditions. Parlor Press, 2023. Co-edited with Hui Wu.
- Teaching through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, Activism. Southern Illinois UP, 2022. Co-edited with Wendy Hayden.
- Women's Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories. Southern Illinois UP, 2015.
- GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the 21st Century. Anderson, Parlor Press, 2011. Co-authored with Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley.
Edited Journal Issues
- Co-Editor, with Anne Melfi and Nicole Khoury, "An Annotated Bibliography of Global and Non-Western Rhetorics: Sources for Comparative Rhetorical Studies." Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021.
- Co-Editor, with Paul F. Marty, Allen Romano, Micah Vandegrift, “Invisible Work in the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 2, 2019.
- Co-Editor, with Shirley K Rose, "The Critical Place of the Networked Archive." Peitho Journal vol. 17, no. 1, Dec. 2014.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
- “Thinking Different: Exchanging Archival Data across Transnational Time and Space.” The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric (eds. Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley). Routledge: 2025, pp 53–62.
- "Bringing Comparative Methodologies into the U.S.-Centric Major." Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics (ed. Keith Lloyd). Routledge: 2020, pp. 317–330. Co-authored with Meghan Velez.
- "New Rhetorics of Scholarship: Leveraging Betweenness and Circulation for Feminist Historical Work." Rhetoric, Writing, and Circulation (eds. Laurie Gries and Collin G. Brooke). Utah State UP, 2018, pp. 189-207. Co-authored with Patricia Sullivan.
- "Decolonising the Transnational Archive: Re/Writing Rhetorical Histories of How African Women (Can) Govern." African Journal of Rhetoric, vol. 9, no.1, Sep 2017, pp. 82-117.
- "From Location(s) to Locatability: Mapping Feminist Recovery and Archival Activity through Metadata." College English, vol. 76, no. 2, Nov. 2013, pp. 171-193.
- "Feminine Irony and the Art of Linguistic Cooperation in Anne Askew's Sixteenth-Century Examinacyons." Rhetorica, vol. 25, no. 4, Autumn 2007, pp. 385-412.
Selected Fellowships and Awards
- NEH Fellowship, for “Rhetorika Afrika” (2025)
- NEH Summer Stipend, for “Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Transnational Archive” (2024)
- University Teaching Award, Inclusive Teaching & Mentoring (FSU, 2023)
- Research Fellow, University of South Africa, Pretoria (2015-2018)
- CWPA Best Book Award for 2011-2012 (conferred 2014)
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship (Indiana University, 2011-2012)
- JAC Journal's Elizabeth A. Flynn Award (2009, with Kathleen J. Ryan)
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