Education

Postdoc 2023-2024, North Dakota State University
Ph.D. 2023, University of Louisville
MPhil 2013, Tribhuvan University
M.A. 2007, Tribhuvan University
B.A. 2002, Tribhuvan University

Academic Summary

Dr. Mainaly teaches courses in technical and professional writing and rhetoric. His research focuses on digital & ambient rhetoric, technical communication, and affordances in artificial intelligence (AI). He also has research interests in science communication rhetoric.

Select Publications

• “Contextualizing the Kairotic Appeal of Dr. Halcyon Lawrence’s Core Insight from Siri Discipline in the Age of AI Revolution,” published in the Special Section of Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ), 2024. https://cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Communication-Design-Quarterly-12.2.pdf.
• “The Power and Precarity and a Generative Gut-Check,” Journal of International Students, 2023. https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jis/article/view/5323. 
• “Bing, Bard, and Brainstorming: A Triadic Tenor of AI Pedagogy,” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, And Emerging Pedagogies, 2023. http://jogltep.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/14.0-Shiva-Mainaly-final.pdf. 
• “An Affirmation of Coexistence between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI): An Inquiry into the Structure of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel, Klara and the Sun,” Critical Humanities, 2024. https://mds.marshall.edu/criticalhumanities/vol2/iss2/8.