Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Kristian Ayala
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioI’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. -
Francesco Bagnardi
Overseas Studies - Florence, Bing Overseas Studies
BioFrancesco Bagnardi is postdoctoral research fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence. His work intersects labour sociology, international political economy, and social movements. His research interests include labour movements and employment relations, economic and labour geographies, and global production networks. He currently works on the international political economy and mobilizations of intellectual property rights regimes and health.
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Anuhya Roy Banerjee
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioHi! I am a transfer student from American River College and a Sacramento native, now part of Stanford’s Class of 2027. I am majoring in Human Biology, though I hold deep interests in understanding environmental microbiology and public health. My recent research explores microbial communities in local waterways through metagenomic analysis. Outside the lab, I’m an avid hiker and a dog lover. Beyond academics I am deeply committed to supporting and advocating for women affected by abuse. I hope to create spaces of understanding, empowerment, and solidarity for others facing similar challenges, reminding them they are never alone.
