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Ritika Popli

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Ritika Popli

Assistant Professor of Writing & Rhetoric

Department/Office Information

Writing and Rhetoric
Lathrop Hall
  • T 2:00pm - 4:00pm (Lathrop Hall)
  • W 2:45pm - 3:45pm (Lathrop Hall)

Contact

Ritika Popli completed her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Culture from School of Communication Studies at Ohio University in 2024. Before coming to the United States for graduate school she completed her undergraduate education in Mass Media and Mass Communication from Indraprastha College for Women at University of Delhi (2013) and her Masters in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (2015). Her current work focuses on the burgeoning digital archives and projects that are collecting oral histories of Partition of British India in 1947. Besides the forms and structures of archives, she is also interested in fundamental questions such as why do we remember the past and how do we remember it, especially in the context of the present. 

B.A., Mass Media and Mass Communication, Indraprastha College for Women (University of Delhi). 

M.A., Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 

Ph.D., Rhetoric & Public Culture, Ohio University (Athens-Main Campus)

  • Ritika Popli and Meg Worley, "A Dialog on Positionality, Mentoring, and Impermanence," in Storied Practices, ed. Kristine Acosta et al. (Colorado: WAC Clearinghouse). Forthcoming 
  • Ritika Popli, "," Journal of Autoethnography 3, no. 3 (2022). 
    (Winner of Journal of Autoethnography Article of the Year Award, 2022)
  • Ritika Popli, "The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting: The Gujarat Development Model and the 2002 Gujarat Pogrom," Southern Communication Journal 86, no. 4 (2021), doi: 10.1080/1041794X.2021.1941225.
  • WRIT 103: Rhetoric & Writing 
  • WRIT 215: Public Speaking
  • WRIT 241: Politics of Public Memory 
  • CORE India
  • Graduate Research Series Award, Ohio University 2021
  • Summer Institute Graduate Development Award, Rhetoric Society of America 2021
  • Cooper Award, Central States Communication Association 2021
  • Outstanding Teaching Associate Award, Ohio University 2020
  • John T. Warren Award - Top Student Paper, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association, 2020
  • Zumkehr Professorship Travel Award, 2019