Moinak Choudhury

Moinak Choudhury is currently one of the Assistant Directors of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech.

In addition to writing program administration and multimodal composition pedagogy, Moinak's research fields include long eighteenth-century literature and culture (1688-1832), literature and the environment, and digital humanities.

His dissertation looked at how self-learning, which has been a topic of recent discussion for science and technology, was debated in eighteenth-century literature and culture. More precisely, the project examined the figure of the autodidact, its connections with concerns about populism, and how it forced Enlightenment thinkers to question their claims of European exceptionalism.

Moinak's publications also focus on the relations between nature, labor, and the production of space.

At Georgia Tech, Moinak's classes have approached multimodal composition with a focus on topics such as 1) The Histories and Cultures of Automation and 2) Global Texts and the Environment

His digital humanities projects include work with a team that examines Mediterranean captivity's early modern history and maps over 3,000 captives across three centuries. See more here.