Dr. Xiqiao Wang, Watson Visiting Professor
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Apr 14, 2025 09:00 AM
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Apr 15, 2025 10:00 PM |
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Contact Name | Andrea Olinger |
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Dr. Xiqiao Wang, Distinguished Watson Visiting Professor, is visiting the English Department to give a workshop, co-teach a session of English 688, and meet graduate students and faculty.
Xiqiao Wang is an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric program. She received her PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture from Vanderbilt University and her MA in Rhetoric and Composition from University of South Florida. Before arriving at Pitt, Xiqiao taught in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University.
Xiqiao’s research program is grounded in an interdisciplinary framework informed by socio-cultural theories of literacy, translingualism, and literacy mobility theories. Her research has examined the changing forms and functions of composition in the broader context of global migration, multilingual and multimodal writing processes across formal, informal, and digital contexts, and best practices in designing translingual and multimodal pedagogy to support diverse learners.
Her monograph, "Multilingual writing in entanglement: Becoming with others through chronotopic figuring and unpredictable encounters," is contracted with Utah State University Press and develops theoretical and methodological tools for exploring the ephemeral, messy, and unpredictable features of multilingual writing. Her research has also appeared in a co-authored book entitled "Inventing the World Grant University: Chinese International Students' Mobilities, Literacies and Identities," as well as professional journals such as Research in the Teaching of English, College Composition and Communication, Journal of Second Language Writing, Computers and Composition, Language and Education, Journal of Basic Writing, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy among others. Her research has been supported by grants, such as the College Composition and Communication Research Initiative in 2014 and the Fulbright Specialist Program in 2018.