Dr. Tarez Graban

Dr. Graban, associate professor of English and honors teaching scholar, joined the Florida State University faculty in 2012. She teaches global rhetorics, histories of rhetoric, human rights rhetoric, theories of composition, transnational and comparative research methodologies, public discourse, and environmental rhetoric. She came to FSU from Indiana University, where she worked extensively with international and resident multilingual students and students in the interdisciplinary Individualized Major program, trained and mentored graduate TAs in teaching college composition, and led initiatives on designing, teaching, and administering service-learning courses.

Her current research focuses on archived and archival legacies of women’s federations in sub-Saharan Africa, especially as their practices and positionings are informed by the opening up of democratized information spaces. From 2015 to 2018 she held a faculty research fellowship at the University of South Africa. Her scholarship appears in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections with both national and international readerships and has won several awards. She is a frequent collaborator with scholars in the US and abroad, having co-authored or co-edited several books and special journal issues, and having contributed to large-scale digital repositories, including the Women and Social Movements database.

Since joining the Faculty Senate in 2013, Graban has served on several standing and ad-hoc Senate committees, including the Undergraduate Policy Committee, Honors Program Policy Committee, Teaching Evaluations, ADA Accommodations, FSU’s gift policy review, and Graduate Policy Committee review subcommittees. From 2013 to 2018, she was a Senator in the faculty union, UFF-FSU. From 2013 to 2020 she led the campus-wide Digital Scholars reading group and DH collaboratory, and from 2018 to 2020 she was co-director of the Demos Project for Studies in the Data Humanities. Currently, she serves on the Steering Committee of FSU’s new Humanities Center. She has also held leadership positions for national para-academic organizations and academic journals.

Dr. Graban is a graduate of Brown University (A.B. English / A.B. Religious Studies, 1993), and Purdue University (PhD English, 2006).