Fellowships & Grants
Demos Center Project Pilot (FSU, 2020) Received support from pilot faculty fellowship program, Demos Project for Studies in the Data Humanities.
Council on Research and Creativity Multidisciplinary Support Program (FSU, 2015-2017) Competitively awarded support for development of the “Linked Women Pedagogues” project, in collaboration with Richard J. Urban and Stephen J. McElroy ($24,802).
Council on Research and Creativity Small Grants Program Award (FSU, 2015) Competitively awarded support for completion of the first phase in a three-phase research project, which will result in a full-length book manuscript entitled “Rhetoric, Irony, and Transnational Feminism” ($2700).
Council on Research and Creativity First Year Assistant Professor Award (FSU, 2013) Awarded support for critical inquiry into and development of a digital archival methodology for feminist studies in rhetoric and composition (MetaData Mapping Project). MDMP collects and traces metadata in order to reconstruct historical ecologies of women pedagogues in rhetoric and writing studies, with a focus on ecologies that are not artifact- or place-based, but activity-based. ($20,000)
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Fellowship (IU, 2011-2012) Admitted to the fourth class of faculty fellows, in support of “Beyond Recovery: Feminist Treatise Locations Project,” to conceptualize the prototype for an archival knowledge base that gathers and visualizes metadata on women’s instructional activities during America’s Progressive Era (https://idah.indiana.edu/fellows-scholars/index.html).
Invited Lectures
“Tracing Metadata,” for Sidney Turner’s undergraduate seminar in Digital Writing, Syracuse University, April 26, 2022, via Zoom. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Metadata, Archives, and Civic Action,” for Professor James Beasley’s undergraduate seminar in rhetoric and the digital humanities, University of North Florida, March 2021, via Zoom. Tarez Samra Graban.
“New Pedagogies for the Institutional Archives,” for Spring 2020 Peck Research on Writing Symposium, Middle Tennessee State University, February 2020. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Metadata, Exclusion and Inclusion,” for Professor James Beasley’s undergraduate seminar in rhetoric and archives, University of North Florida, March 2019, via Skype. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Archives and the Digital Humanities: Implications for Teaching and Research,” for Professor Linda Zionkowski’s graduate Professional Issues seminar, Ohio University, October 12, 2018. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Linked Women Pedagogues: Reflections on a DH Collaboration between Mindsets,” with Richard Urban for iSchool doctoral colloquium, Florida State University, October 14, 2016. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Archives and the Digital Humanities,” for Professor James Beasley’s undergraduate seminar in rhetoric and archives, University of North Florida, February 2018, via Skype. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Circulatory Looking: Locating Women’s Intellectual Capital in Histories of Rhetorical Education in America,” for annual Faculty Luncheon Series, Florida State University, April 14, 2015. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Digital Historiography: Finding New Rhetorics of Scholarship in Movement and Circulation,” for Rhetoric and Composition Lecture Series, Florida State University, April 7, 2015. Tarez Samra Graban.
Papers & Presentations
“Data Feminism in the Numbers: A Qualitative Analysis of Where Women Pedagogues are Documented.” 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 2023. Ella Windlan.
“The Relationship between the Women’s Rights Movement and Collegiate Education.” 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 2022. Lauryn Klostreich.
“Tracing Women Pedagogues: Finding the Underrepresented in Nontraditional Sources.” 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 2023. Emma Valderrama.
“Data Feminism and Data Discovery: A Critical Crossroads.” DH Unbound, joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities, Montreal, Canada, 17 May 2022. Poster. Tarez Samra Graban, Marcelina Nagales, Ashley Pendleton, and Morgan Waltimyer.
“Tracing Women Pedagogues: Applying ‘Data Feminism’ to a Data Discovery Project.” 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 2022. Morgan Waltimyer.
“Against Erasure: Performing Feminist Historiography through Metadata.” International Communication Association Pre-Conference on Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies, Remote via Zoom, 26 May 2021. Tarez Samra Graban.
“An Analysis of Visualization Techniques Displaying the Pedagogical and Intellectual Movement of Female Rhetoric Instructors between 1870 and 1970.” 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 1, 2021. Arin Ahmad.
“The Mechanisms of In/Visibility in the Careers of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Women Pedagogues.” 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, April 1, 2021. Megan Bettley.
“Exploring, Curating, and Creating: Using Digital Rhetorical Tools for Archival Work.” 2nd Annual Conference on Community Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 2017. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Interrogating History in the Interspaces: Rhetoric, Composition, and Metadata Tools.” 68th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, March 2017. Tarez Samra Graban.
“How to Do (Rhetorical) Things with Networks.” 17th Biennial Congress of the Rhetoric Society of America, Atlanta, GA, May 2016. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Linking Archives and Digital Humanities.” pre-Conference Workshop, 66th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, March 18, 2015. Tarez Samra Graban.
“The Boutique is Open: rhetoric.io and Linked Data.” 2014 Computers & Writing Conference, Pullman, WA, June 5-8, 2014. Tarez Samra Graban, Cheryl Ball, Doug Eyman, and Karl Stolley.
“Teaching A-modern Rhetorical Histories in Print and Digital Spaces.” 16th Biennial Congress of the Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX, May 22-26, 2014. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Teaching Archival Research.” Pre-Conference Workshop, 65th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN, March 18, 2014. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Performing Feminist Historiography through Metadata.” 19th Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Chicago, IL, July 22-26, 2013. Tarez Samra Graban.
“New Ecologies for Feminist Recovery.” Networked Humanities: A Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, February 15-16, 2013. Tarez Samra Graban.
“Re/Framing Digital Historical Methods: Tools, Technologies, Ethics, Epistemologies.” 15th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, May 25-27, 2012. Tarez Samra Graban.
Publications
“Promise(s) and Peril(s) of Big Data: Historiography, Data Feminism, and Tracing Women of Color.” Under consideration for Rhetorica in Motion II: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies (eds. Eileen Schell and KJ Rawson). Co-authored with Michael J. Healy.
“The Boutique is Open: Data for Writing Studies.” Composition and Big Data (eds. Ben Miller and Amanda Licastro). U of Pittsburgh P, 2021, pp. 196–211. Cheryl E. Ball, Tarez Samra Graban, and Michelle Sidler.
“New Rhetorics of Scholarship: Leveraging Betweenness and Circulation for Feminist Historical Work in Composition Studies.” Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric (eds. Laurie Gries and Collin G. Brooke). Utah State UP, 2018, pp. 189–207. Tarez Samra Graban and Patricia Sullivan.
“Resisting the ‘Singularly Tellable Space’: Re-Seeing Networks in Rhetorical Studies.” Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change (eds. Jenny Rice, Chelsea Graham, and Eric Detweiler). Parlor P/Intermezzo P, 2018. Anna Cooke, Tarez Samra Graban, John Jones, and Dawn Opel.
“Ripple Effects: Toward a Topos of Deployment for Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric and Composition.” Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University (eds. Brian McNely and Jeff Rice). Parlor P, 2018, pp. 106–130. Tarez Samra Graban.
“In, Through, and About the Archive: What Digitization (Dis)Allows.” Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (eds. Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson). Chicago: U Chicago P, 2014. Tarez Samra Graban, Alexis Ramsey-Tobienne and Whitney Myers.
“From Location(s) to Locatability: Mapping Feminist Recovery and Archival Activity through Metadata.” College English, vol. 76, no. 2, 2013, pp. 171–93. Tarez Samra Graban.
