Andrew Parayil Boge

Andrew Parayil Boge is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Media, and Culture in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, within the College of Arts and Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa with graduate certificates in Public Digital Humanities and African American Studies.

Dr. Boge's research focuses on:

• Digital Media
• Ethnic Studies
• Public Address
• Race and Ethnicity
• Rhetoric
• Social Justice
• Transnational Studies

His interdisciplinary scholarship examines how racial ideologies are produced, maintained, and disrupted in public discourse. Informed by scholars of color in digital media and rhetorical studies, and intersectional race and ethnic studies, his work reckons with the real, situated violence of racism and the agential force of racialized peoples to disrupt such violence via discursive worldbuilding. Dr. Parayil Boge's primary research project examines South Asian American racialization by theorizing the cultural and transnational logics of (anti-)brownness across racial projects.

Dr. Parayil Boge's research output shows a strong focus on race, rhetoric, and social justice. His work analyzes historical and contemporary discourses of racism, particularly focusing on South Asian American experiences. He employs rhetorical criticism to examine how race is constructed and maintained through language, with particular attention to temporal and spatial dimensions of racialization. His scholarship bridges communication studies, ethnic studies, and critical race theory.

Dr. Boge is committed to cultivating educational spaces fundamentally informed by the principles of anti-racist and social justice pedagogy. He teaches courses on race/racism, media, rhetoric, and ethnic studies. Through a liberal arts approach to teaching and course development, Dr. Parayil Boge encourages students to reflect upon the taken-for-granted assumptions that define their experience, cultivating a healthy skepticism of public arguments, discourses, images, and ideas.

Outside of his academic work, Andrew enjoys refining his skills as an amateur South Indian cook and aspiring chaiwala.