Five questions for Nisha Shanmugaraj

Nisha Shanmugaraj has always been captivated by the power of language. “After receiving my doctorate, I was thrilled to receive a job offer from CU Boulder’s renowned Program for Writing and Rhetoric,” said Shanmugaraj, an assistant professor. She is at work on a book, “Bootstrapping Identity: Indian American Women and the Rhetorics of Internalized Racism,” being made possible with help from a 2026 President’s Fund for the Humanities grant.