Department of Literature and Languages
Hui Wu, Ph.D.
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Hui Wu Professor of English Chair, Dept. of Literature and Languages Office: BUS 266 Phone: (903) 566-7289 |
Hui Wu (pronounced as Whay Woo) holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in rhetoric/composition and comparative studies of rhetoric and communication from Texas Christian University. Before joining UT Tyler, she served as Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Director of the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Education Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and the Founding Executive Director of the UCA Confucius Institute for Arkansas at the University of Central Arkansas.
Dr. Wu’s scholarship encompasses the history of rhetoric, comparative studies of rhetoric, global feminist rhetorics, and archival research in rhetoric and writing. Her writing appears in scholarly anthologies and journals, such as College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Her Chinese translation (Jiangxi Education Press, 2004) of C. Jan Swearingen’s Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies offers Chinese academics an alternative perspective of the history of Western rhetoric. Her critical anthology in translation, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women, is forthcoming from Lexington Books. Currently, she continues to study post-Mao Chinese literary women’s feminist rhetoric, while writing about and translating China’s first book on the art of persuasion, Guiguzi (Master of the Ghost Valley, 400-320 BCE).
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