Min-Zhan Lu

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Min-Zhan Lu is a composition professor and scholar. She serves as professor emerita of English at the University of Louisville. She is the 2005 recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Richard M. Braddock Award and the 2012 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.

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Early life and education

Lu grew up in China at the turn of the Communist Revolution in the mid to late 1940s. She grew up speaking Shanghai dialect, Standard Chinese, and English at a young age. She learned Standard Chinese while attending a private school after the Communist Revolution in 1949. [1]

Lu was awarded her MA and PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and 1989 respectively, where she studied in the Cultural and Critical Studies Program. [1] [2] During her PhD program, she served as an Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow (1987–1988). [2]

Career and research

As a non-native English speaker, Lu did not intend on becoming a composition teacher after completing her PhD. While searching for jobs, she found that this was one of the only options available to her. After becoming a TA for a writing studies course at the University of Pittsburgh, she became interested in how composition studies examines the experiences of those with nontraditional schooling and how the pedagogy treated reading and writing as connected. [3]

After completing her TA position, Lu briefly lectured at Des Moines Area Community College. She went on to teach at Drake University for over ten years (1989–2001) holding several positions including Endowed Professor of the Humanities. [4] [2] She went on to teach and direct several programs within rhetoric and composition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for five years (2001–2006). [2] She has spent the majority of her teaching career at the University of Louisville, where she is currently serving as Professor Emerita since 2014. [5] [2]

Selected works

Notable awards

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References

  1. 1 2 Lu, Min-Zhan (April 1987). "From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle". College English. 49 (4): 437–448. doi:10.2307/377860. JSTOR   377860.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "SelectedWorks - Min-Zhan Lu". works.bepress.com. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  3. ↑ Bawarshi, Anis, et al. "Behind the Scenes of Writing: A Conversation with Min-Zhan Lu." Writing on the Edge, vol. 9, no. 1, 1997, pp. 88–104.
  4. ↑ Lu, Min-Zhan. "Articles - Redefining the Literate Self: The Politics of Critical Affirmation." College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 2, 1999, p. 172–194.
  5. ↑ Horner, Bruce; Lu, Min-Zhan; Royster, Jacqueline Jones; Trimbur, John (January 2011). "Opinion: Language Difference in Writing: Towards a Translingual Approach". College English. 73: 303–321. JSTOR   25790477.
  6. ↑ "CCCC Outstanding Book Award". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  7. ↑ "CCCC Richard Braddock Award". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  8. ↑ "CCRC – CUNY Academic Commons Wiki Archive" . Retrieved 2021-10-01.
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