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Princess Awambu
Student Employee, Alumni and Student Class Outreach Admin
Undergraduate, Human Biology
Student Employee-2, Vice Provost for Student AffairsBioPremed student in people-focused mentorship and leadership roles. Exploring research at the intersection of health, culture, and the human zeitgeist to improve lives across global communities.
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Mukta Awasthi
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Med/Hospital Medicine
Staff, Med/Hospital MedicineBioMukta Awasthi, MD completed her medical school training at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Internal Medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is a board-certified academic hospitalist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) within the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine. She has 25 years of experience in Hospital Medicine and Medical Education. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Intermediate Intensive Care Unit at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She also is the Director of the VA My Life My Story Program at the VA Palo Alto HCS. Her areas of interest include Medical Education, Quality Improvement and Narrative Medicine.
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Kristian Ayala
Ph.D. Student in English, admitted Autumn 2019
Graduate Students in COLLEGE, Stanford Introductory Studies OperationsBioI’m very interested in how people generate good ideas, both in writing and speaking. In the classroom, my goal is to show you that good ideas don’t just appear in our heads, as if thanks to some innate power. Rather, good ideas come from methodical thinking. Good ideas, in fact, can come from thinking with rhetorical figures. The next time you’re struggling to explain something to a friend, use a simile. What is something your friend already knows? Try making a comparison with that familiar thing. Rhetorical figures are not just stylish dress for sentences. They’re useful, like a flashlight when the power goes out.
Trained in an English department, I am a rhetorician working at the intersections of stylistics and argumentation. Powered by humanistic methods, my scholarship focuses on invention, especially updating the art of topical invention. In my current book, I offer a theory of rhetorical figures defined as epitomes of the dialectical topics, an old tradition of informal logic. My theory of the figures challenges our notion of creativity, which is currently too reliant on individualistic achievement.
A revamped theory of the figures powers my criticism. As part of my research program, I work on literary and rhetorical traditions in US American and Latinx contexts. My book presents a case study along these lines: I explain the informal logic of some Latinx nostalgia between the World Wars. For a sample of my research program, see my article in the forthcoming special issue of Pasados: Recovering Histories, Imagining Latinidad.
Before coming to COLLEGE, I taught courses in literary studies and in liberal-arts general education. Before that, I taught high school in Chicago and New York City.
