Rajendra Kumar Panthee’s research area includes of First-Year Composition, cross-cultural technology design, interface design, educational technologies, contact zone, and technological literacy. His research investigates how students from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds perceive Learning Management Systems that are used in writing classrooms. He also analyzes interface design by writing students and its relationship to student agency and invention in their digital writing and research in a cross-cultural digital contact zone situation of First-Year Composition in US universities. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters. He won First Annual First-Year Composition (FYC) Award for Dissertations because of his study’s contribution to the field. He completed PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso. He teaches writing at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.