Qianqian Zhang-Wu

Assistant Professor of English; Director of Multilingual Writing
- 2023 CCCC Research Impact Award
- 2023 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award honorable mention
- 2022 CIES-SAIS Best Book Award
- 2021 Best Dissertation Award, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
- 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Scholars for the Dream Award
- 2020-2022 NCTE Research Foundation Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color (CNV) Fellowship
- 2020-2021 Hong Liu China Studies Research Award
- 2019-2020 Office of the Provost Full-Time Faculty Professional Development Fund
- 2017 AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG Travel Award, American Education Research Association
- 2014 TESOL Spirit Award from the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (forthcoming, 2023). (Re)Imagining Linguistically Responsive Instruction in Superdiverse College Composition Classrooms: A Cross-Case Study of Three Multilingual International Students. Research in the Teaching of English.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. & Jones, C. (2022) Anti-racist translingualism: investigating race in translingual scholarship in US Writing and rhetoric studies over the past decade, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2022.2153009
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2022). Rethinking Translingualism in College Composition Classrooms: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Multilingual Students’ Written Communication Across Contexts. Written Communication.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2022). Once a Chinese International Student and Now an English Professor: An Autoethnographic Self-Inquiry of Journeys Against Linguicism and Monolingual Ideologies. Journal of International Students.
- Tian, Z. & Zhang-Wu, Q. (2022). Preparing Pre-service Content Area Teachers Through Translanguaging. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2022). “Keeping Home Languages Out of the Classroom!”: Examining Multilingual Writers’ Perceptions of Translingual Writing in an Asynchronous College Composition Class. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2022). Multilingual Students’ Perspectives on Translanguaging in First-Year Undergraduate Writing Classrooms. TESOL Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.651
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2021). (Re)Imagining Translingualism as a Verb to Tear Down the English-Only Wall: “Monolingual” Students as Multilingual Writers. College English.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. & Brisk, M. (2021). “I must have taken a fake TOEFL!”: Rethinking Linguistically Responsive Instruction Through the Eyes of Chinese International Freshmen. TESOL Quarterly.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2021). Rethinking Chinese International Students in American Higher Education: “Raceless” and “Linguistically Incompetent”?. Educational Research and Development Journal, 24(1), 16-20.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2021). Preparing Monolingual Teachers of Multilingual Students: Strategies That Work. In U. Lanvers, A. Thompson., & M. East (Eds.). Language Learning in Anglophone Countries. (pp. 463-484). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Zhang-Wu, Q. (2021). Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK.
- Poe, M. & Zhang-Wu, Q. (2020). Super-Diversity as a Framework to Promote Social Justice: Designing Program Assessment for Multilingual Writing Outcomes. Special Issue of Composition Forum: Promoting Social Justice for Multilingual Writers on College Campuses.
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Education
Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction, Boston College
M.S. Ed in Educational Linguistics (TESOL), The University of Pennsylvania -
Contact
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Address
435 Holmes Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 -
Office Hours
M & Th 10:30-11:30am
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Offers writing instruction for students in the College of Engineering and the College of Computer and Information Science. Students practice and reflect on writing in professional, public, and academic genres—such as technical reports, progress reports, proposals, instructions, presentations, and technical reviews—relevant to technical professions and individual student goals. In a workshop setting, offers students an opportunity to evaluate a wide variety of sources and develop expertise in audience analysis, critical research, peer review, and revision.
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Designed for students whose first or strongest language is not English. Students study and practice writing in a workshop setting; read a range of texts in order to describe and evaluate the choices writers make and apply that knowledge to their own writing; explore how writing functions in a variety of academic, professional, and public contexts; and write for various purposes and audiences in multiple genres and media. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to conduct research using primary and secondary sources and to give and receive feedback, to revise their work, and to reflect on their growth as writers.

Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 2760
Explores the various ways that linguistic diversity shapes our everyday, academic, and professional lives. Offers students an opportunity to learn about language policy, the changing place of World English in globalization, and what contemporary theories of linguistic diversity, such as translingualism, mean for writing. Invites students to explore their own multilingual communities or histories through empirical or archival research.