Composition: History & Theory: 2000 - 2009
Min-Zhan Lu
Description
Min-Zhan Lu is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisville, Belknap campus. Her faculty page is sparse, but her publications are not. She has co-written two textbooks with Bruce Horner: Writing Conventions (2008); Representing the “Other”: Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing (1999). She has also co-edited the collection, Comp Tales: An Introduction to College Composition Through Its Stories (1999, 2007), with Richard Haswell. Additionally she published a memoir in 2001 called, Shanghai Quartet: The Crossings of Four Women of China. Marilyn Cooper reviewed the book in JAC, and writes: “When academics analyze personal experience in the same rigorous way that they analyze other material, interpreting it as stories within rhetorical contexts that enable and condition the stories and their interpretations, their personal writing escapes the common objections that it might be self-indulgent, an invitation to the dangers of confession, impervious to critique or refutation, or a commodification of difference” (Cooper). She compares Lu to Villanueva and Brodkey (Cooper). Lu has also published many articles in CCC and College English. She is on the Advisory Board for College English currently. In 2005, she won the Braddock Award for Best CCC Article of the Year with, “An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.” Before her professorship at the University of Louisville, she taught at Drake University.
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Lydia McDermott
Date of Upload
11/3/09