Teaching Experience

• Writing Tutor for OASIS Language Arts Tutorial Services at UCSD (Fall 2020 - Fall 2021)
• Undergraduate Instructional Assistant for Department of Biological Sciences at UCSD (Fall 2021)
• UWP 001 Instructor (Fall 2024 - Present)

Presentations

• Dhamankar, S., Tour, E., Reiswig, J. and Huynh, T. Using project-based learning to teach scientific communication to a large undergraduate biology class (SABER West 2023 Poster)
• Dhamankar, S., Hernandez Negrete, A. and Caporale, N. Discrimination Discourages PEERs and Women from Participating in STEM Course Study Groups (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference UC Davis 2023 Poster)
• Dhamankar, S. The A-side of WID: Valuing Diverse Student Perspectives in STEM Writing (Conference on College Composition and Communication 2025 Talk)

Why did you choose the DE in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies?

My journey as a budding scholar of education has been one of traversing disciplines. Science education is my area of interest, but within that my focus is teaching writing in the sciences at the undergraduate level. Therefore, I felt that it was important for me to develop an understanding of academic discourse: the features of scholarly conversation, the argumentation styles, the varied genres that students would have to contend with as learners and professionals. Hence, the WRaCS DE!