Faculty Directory
Xiaoye You Assistant Professor of English
Contact:
118 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 863-0595
xuy10@psu.edu
Office hours:
Tuesday 10-11 and Thursday 1:30-2:20
Educational History:
BA Gannan Teachers' College, China 1995
MA Northwestern Polytechnic University, China 1998
Ph.D. Purdue University, 2005
Research Interests:
Rhetorical histories and theories; composition theory and practice; comparative rhetoric; second language writing
Awards:
Grace L. Smart Award in Rhetoric and Composition, Annual Literary Award, Purdue University, 2003, 2004, 2005
Kneale Award in Pedagogy, second prize, Annual Literary Award, Purdue University, 2005
Asian Studies Award, Annual Literary Award, Purdue University, 2003, 2004
Major Publications:
Edited Collection - The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land. West Lafayette , IN : Parlor Press, 2006. (with Paul K. Matsuda and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper).
"The Way , Multimodality of Ritual Symbols, and Social Change: Reading Confucius's Analects as a Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly . 36.4 (2006): 425-448.
" Ideology, Textbooks, and the Rhetoric of Production in China ." College Composition and Communication 56.4 (2005): 632-653.
"Conflation of Rhetorical Traditions: The Formation of Modern Chinese Writing Instruction." Rhetoric Review 24.2 (2005):150-169.
"‘The Choice Made from No Choice': English Writing Instruction in a Chinese University ." Journal of Second Language Writing 13.2 (2004): 97-110.
Books In Progress:
Writing in the "Devil's" Tongue: Rhetoric and English Composition in Chinese Colleges, 1862-2005 (tentative title)
