Xiaoye You's Curriculum Vita

Xiaoye You

Assistant Professor of English and Asian Studies

The Pennsylvania State University, Department of English, University Park, PA 16802

Email: xuy10@psu.edu Telephone: (814) 863-0595

education ______________________________________________________________

Ph.D. English, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2005

Concentrations: 1) English as a Second Language; 2) Rhetoric and Composition

Dissertation: Writing in the “Devil's” Tongue: A History of English Writing Instruction in Chinese Colleges (1862-2004)

M.A. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China, 1998

B.A. English Education, Department. of Foreign Languages, Gannan Teachers' College, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, P. R. China, 1995

awards, honors, grants ___________________________________

Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) Individual Faculty Grant, Penn State University, 2009

Global Funds Award, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State University, 2009

Minority Faculty Development Support Fund, Penn State University, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

CCCC Professional Equity Project (PEP) Grant, 2005

Smith College Travel to Archive Grant, 2004

Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, 2002, 2003, 2004

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

Walter Johnson Award in ESL, honorable mention, Annual Literary Award, Purdue University, 2002, 2003, 2005

Asian Studies Award, Annual Literary Award, Purdue University, 2003, 2004

Purdue University Department of English Travel Grant to present "When Life Hands You Lemons...: The Subversive Use of Computer Literacy in ESL Writing Classes" at CCCC, San Antonio, Texas, March 25, 2004

Indiana TESOL Travel Grant, 2002

Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship. Northwestern Polytechnic University, 1997, 1998

Fieldwork Award for Graduate Students. Northwestern Polytechnic University, 1997

publications ___________________________________________________________

Books

Writing in the Devil’s Tongue: A History of English Composition in China. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Matsuda, Paul K., Christina Ortmeier-Hooper and Xiaoye You (Eds). The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006.

Journal Articles

“Multilingual Creativity and the Life-Worlds of Chinese White Collars.” 40 mms. pp. Submitted to World Englishes, October 2009.
“Ethos Building through Japanese English in an Online Community.” 35 mms. pp. Submitted to the World Englishes, March 2009. (with Yichun Liu)
“Building Empire through Argumentation: Debating Salt and Iron in Western Han China.” College English 72.4 (2010).

“Confucians Love to Argue: Policy Essays in Ancient China.” College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009). (with Yichun Liu)

“Negotiating into Academic Discourses: Taiwanese and U.S. College Students in Research Writing.” International Journal of English Studies 8.2 (2008): 153-72. (with Yichun Liu)

“Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and China English.” World Englishes 27.2 (2008): 233-49.

"Rhetorical Use of Computer Literacy in an ESL Writing Class: Implications for Critical Pedagogy and ESL Writing." Kairos. 11.2 (2007). <http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/binder.html?praxis/you/Index.html>

"The Way, Multimodality of Ritual Symbols, and Social Change: Reading Confucius’s Analects as a Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 36.4 (2006): 425-48.

"Ideology, Textbooks, and the Rhetoric of Production in China." College Composition and Communication 56.4 (2005): 632-53.

"Conflation of Rhetorical Traditions: The Formation of Modern Chinese Writing Instruction." Rhetoric Review 24.2 (2005):150-69.

"‘The Choice Made from No Choice': English Writing Instruction in a Chinese University." Journal of Second Language Writing 13.2 (2004): 97-110.

"English Teaching in China: Contributing to an Alternative Modernity." Studies on Asia 1.1 (2004): 67-76.

Book Chapters

“Reading the Heavenly Mandate: Dong Zhongshu’s Rhetoric of the Way (Dao).” Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics. Eds. Carol Lipson and Roberta Binkley. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2009. 153-75. (with Yichun Liu)

“构建一个生态性的EFL写作理论: 从中国英语写作教学史谈起 [Constructing an Ecological Theory of EFL Writing: From the Historical Perspective of English Writing Instruction in China].” 英语写作教学与研究的中国视角 [EFL Writing Instruction and Research: A Chinese Perspective]. Eds. Lifei Wang and Zoucheng Zhang. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008. 26-32.

"From Confucianism to Marxism: A Century of Theme Treatment in Chinese Writing Instruction." Current Research in Contrastive Rhetoric: Building toward Intercultural Rhetoric. Eds. Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout and William Rozycki. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2008. 241-56.

"Preface." The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land. Eds. Paul K. Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper and Xiaoye You. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006. vii-xiii. (with Paul K. Matsuda and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper).

"Globalization and the Politics of Teaching EFL Writing." The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land. Eds. Paul K. Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper and Xiaoye You. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006. 188-202.

"Reflections on Egocentric Speech." A Collection of Papers at the 2nd Graduate Students' Academic Conference. Xi'an: Northwestern Polytechnic UP, 1996. 701-705.

Book Reviews and Notes

Rev. of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric by LuMing Mao. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38.1 (2008):118-121.

Rev. of Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students by A Suresh Canagarajah. English for Specific Purposes 25.4 (2006): 494-498

Rev. of Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style by Massimiliano Tomasi. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36.4 (2006): 483-487.

"New Directions in EFL Writing: A Report from China." Journal of Second Language Writing 13.4 (2004): 253-256.

"Demystifying the Field of Language Testing: Discussions on LTESL-L." TESOL Journal , 12.2 (2003): 47.

"Non-native TAs Teach Native English." IWP News 4.2 (2002): 3.

Textbooks

English Corner: Chinese Topics. Xi'an, China: Northwestern Polytechnic University Press, 2001. 320 pp. (with Feng Li)

English Corner: American Topics. Xi'an, China: Northwestern Polytechnic University Press, 2001. 295 pp. (with Feng Li)

Cracking CET Spoken English Test. Xi'an, China: Xi'an Electronic Science and Technology University Press, 2000. 260 pp. (with Cheng Dongmei)

Talking at English Corner: A Cultural Perspective. Xi'an, China: Northwestern Polytechnic University Press, 2000. 290 pp.

Exploring the English Corner: A Cultural Perspective . Xi'an, China: Northwestern Polytechnic University Press, 2000. 310 pp. (with Zhang Zhanrong)

presentations _________________________________________

Plenary and Featured Presentations
Featured Speaker. A featured panel on “Doctoral Programs and Second Language Writing” (with Dwight Atkinson, Jay Jordan, Jun Liu, Kate Mangelsdorf, Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Ben Rafoth, Tony Silva, Fredricka Stoller, and Wei Zhu). Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ, November 5, 2009.

Plenary Speaker. “Ethos and Intercultural Rhetoric.” The 4th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse, Indianapolis, IN, June 4, 2008.

Featured Speaker. “Confucian Politicians Love to Argue: Policy Essays in Chinese Feudalism.” Paper presented as part of the featured panel, “Double Trouble: Misunderstanding Chinese Rhetorics” (with Lu Liu, Jan Swearingen, and Hui Wu) at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York City, March 23, 2007.

Invited Lectures
“English Writing Research and Curricular Development.” National Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,

Guangzhou, China, June 6, 2009. “Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and China English.” School of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, June 4, 2009.

“Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and China English.” School of Foreign Languages, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, China, June 1, 2009.

“Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and the Teaching of China English.” School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, May 15, 2009.

“Contrastive Rhetoric, Past, Present, and Future.” School of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China, May 13, 2009.

“Writing in Our Tongue: A Historical View of English Writing in China.” School of Foreign Language Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China, September 28, 2008.

“Conversing with Multiple Cultures: My Scholarly Pursuits.” School of Foreign Languages, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, China, February 25, 2008.

“Research Trends in Second Language Writing.” School of the Humanities, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China, May 29, 2004.

Workshops
Leader. “Toward a Rhetoric of Multilingual Writing” (with Suresh Canagarajah, Maria Jerskey, and Jay Jordan). Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute, State College, PA, June 26-28, 2009.

Conference Papers
“Remixing East and West: Writing in the Devil’s Tongue.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Composition 2.0: Remixing Language and Culture in Transnational Contexts” (with Dwight Atkinson, Steve Fraiberg, and Rachel Reed), at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Louisville, KY, March 18, 2010.

“Credibility, Identity, and Values: Personal Narratives on Electronic Bulletin Boards in China and Japan.” Paper presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ, November 5, 2009.

“Ethics in Move: Personal Narratives Online.” Paper presented at the 5th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse, Ann Arbor, MI, June 12, 2009.

“Ethics and Japanese English.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Applied Linguistics in Korean and Japanese” (with Susan Strauss), at the Penn State Asian Studies Luncheon Series, University Park, PA. April 24, 2009.

“Ethos-Building through English Writing in a Japanese Online Community.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Waves of Transnational Composition, Ways of Doing Intercultural Rhetoric” (with Suresh Canagarajah, Ulla Connor, and Steve Fraiberg), at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco, March 12, 2009.

“Ethics and Japanese English.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Applied Linguistics in Korean and Japanese” (with Susan Strauss), at the Penn State Asian Studies Luncheon Series, University Park, PA. February 13, 2009.

“Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and the Teaching of China English.” Paper presented at the 6th National EFL Writing Teaching and Research Conference, Beijing, China. September 27, 2008.

“Reading the Heavenly Mandate: Dong Zhongshu’s Rhetoric of the Way (Dao).” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Ethical Responsibilities East and West: Rereading Confucian Rhetoric” (with Jan Swearingen, Xing Lu, Hsiao-Hui Yang), at Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference, Seattle, May 23, 2008.

“Composition Studies as Transnational Performances: The Chinese Stage.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Internationalizing Composition: A Reality Check” (with Chris Anson, Min-Zhan Lu, Joan Mullin, and Paul Kei Matsuda), at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, April 3, 2008. [Invited by Paul Kei Matsuda]

“Alienated Voices in Modern Chinese Rhetoric: Hu Shi and His Transactional Rhetoric.” Paper presented at the Conference on the Formation and Development of Academic Disciplines in China, Canberra, Australia, December 2, 2007. [Invited by Andy Kirkpatrick]

“Socializing Undergrads in Scholarly Communities: Strategies and Ethical Concerns in Faculty Mentoring." Paper presented as part of the panel, “Undergraduate Research and Journals in English Studies: Theory and Practice” (with Laurie Grobman and Laura Rotunno) at Penn State English Conference, State College, PA September 20, 2007.

“Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and China English: A Rhetorical Study of an Electronic Bulletin Board Forum.” Paper presented at the 20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University Park, PA, July 8, 2007.

“Rhetorical Strategies, Context, and China English: A Rhetorical Study of an Electronic Bulletin Board Forum.” Paper presented at the 3rd Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse: Multiple Literacies Across Cultures, Columbus, OH, June 15, 2007.

"Confucian Rhetoric and Multilingual Writers." Paper presented as part of the roundtable, "Chinese Rhetoric as Writing Tradition: Re-conceptualizing Its History and Practice" (with Lu Liu, LuMing Mao, Jan Swearingen, Bo Wang, and Hui Wu) at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago, March 23, 2006.

"EFL Writing and Theory Building in L2 Writing." Paper presented as part of the featured colloquium "Broadening Perspectives in Second Language Writing" (with Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Danling Fu, Paul Kei Matsuda, Shondel Nero, and Tony Silva), Second Language Writing Interest Section Academic Session, Annual Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language (TESOL) Convention, Tampa, FL, March 16, 2006. [Invited by Christina Ortmeier-Hooper]

“Writing “Five-Legged” Essays: The English Writing Instruction Enterprise in China.” Paper presented at International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) Annual Conference, West Lafayette, IN, July 22, 2005.

"Why Does Place of Origin Matter?: A Historical Examination of Resume Writing in China During the Last Three Decades." Paper presented at ICIC Conference on Written Discourse and Contrastive Rhetoric, Indianapolis, IN, July 23, 2005.

"Documentation for the People: Open Source, Purdue's OSDDP, and the Public Sphere" (with Charles Lowe and Suzanne Black). Poster presented at Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, San Francisco, March 16, 2005.

“A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Cover Letters.” Paper presented at Conference of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC), West Lafayette, IN, October 8, 2004.

“Responding to Globalization: Teaching English as an International Language (EIL) Writing in Chinese Universities.” Paper presented at the 4th Symposium on Second Language Writing, West Lafayette, IN, October 2, 2004.

“Conflation of Rhetorical Traditions: The Formation of Modern Chinese Writing Instruction.” Paper presented at ICIC Conference on Written Discourse and Contrastive Rhetoric, Indianapolis, IN, July 31, 2004.

“Colonialism, Nationalism, and Initiation of English Writing Instruction in China.” Paper presented at American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference. Portland, OR, May 3, 2004.

“When Life Hands You Lemons...: The Subversive Use of Computer Literacy in ESL Writing Classes.” Paper presented at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Antonio, March 25, 2004.

“From Western Empiricism to Modern Chinese Rhetoric: Hu Shih and His Polemic Writings in the New Culture Movement (1915-1923).” Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Normal, IL, October 10, 2003.

“Battling with Exams: EFL Writing in Chinese High Schools.” Paper presented at Indiana TESOL Conference, Indianapolis, November 16, 2002.

“Reinterpreting the Expanding Circle: A View from China.” Paper presented at International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) Annual Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 18, 2002.

“Writing Ideology in English: Clashes and Compromises in Chinese Universities.” Paper presented at American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, April 7, 2002.
“New Way Construction: Justifying ESL Writing's Place in Post-Process Theory.” Paper presented at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago, March 20, 2002.

“Contributing to an Alternative Modernity: Teaching English in China.” Paper presented at 2nd Annual Theory and Cultural Studies Colloquium, West Lafayette, IN, March 6, 2002.

“Localizing a Measurement Tool in an ESL Writing Program: Questions and Answers.” Paper presented at 4th Annual Meeting of Midwest Association of Language Testers (AMALT), Chicago, January 21, 2002.
“Ideology and Beyond: Examining an ESL Writing Textbook in China.” Paper presented at Indiana TESOL Conference, Indianapolis, IN, November 10, 2001.

“Restructuring the Power Hierarchy—Student's Autonomy in the EFL Classroom in China.” Paper presented at Teaching English in China Symposium, Chengdu, China, November, 1999.

teaching _______________________________________________________________

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, July, 2005 - Present

Graduate Seminars
Ethnic Rhetorics (English 597, 1 section)
Supervised Experience in Teaching College Writing (English 602, 2 sections)
Theory and the Teaching of Writing (English 502, 1 section)

Undergraduate Courses
Advanced Expository Writing (English 421, 3 sections)
Classical Rhetorics and American Movies (English 471, 1 section)
Ethnic Rhetoric (English 474, 1 section)
Honors Freshman Composition (English 030, 1 section)
Rhetoric: East Meets West (English 471, 1 section)
World Rhetorics (English 303M, 1 section)
Writing in the Social Sciences (English 202A, 3 sections)

Graduate Advising
Dissertation Committee Member
- Completed Dissertation -
Xingren Xu, Ph.D., 2008 (Applied Linguistics)
- Exams and Dissertations in Progress -
Abram Anders (English)
Tracy Davis (Applied Linguistics)
David Frank Green (English)
Duff Johnston (Applied Linguistics)
Gretchen Nauman (Applied Linguistics)
Ersula J. Ore (English)
Kwanghyun Park (Applied Linguistics)
Xin Wei (Comparative Literature)

Graduate Instructor, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August, 2000 - May, 2005

Professional Writing (English 420, 3 sections)
Introductory Writing for Agricultural Education freshmen (English 106R, 1 section)
Academic Writing (English 102, 4 sections)
Introductory Writing (English 101, 3 sections)
Introductory Writing for ESL students (English 101I, 2 sections)
Written Communication for ESL Graduate Students (English 002, 2 sections)

Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, P. R. China , May, 1998 - July, 2000

Graduate Seminar
Introduction to Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Undergraduate Courses
American Literature (for English-major seniors)
American and British Culture (for English-major sophomores)
American Newspaper and Magazine Reading (for adult trainees)
Chinese Intensive Reading (beginner, intermediate and advanced)
Chinese Newspapers and Periodical Reading (advanced)
Chinese Calligraphy (beginner)
English (ESL) Listening Comprehension
English (ESL) Conversation
Intensive English (ESL) Reading

Instructor and Coordinator, Office of Foreign Academic Exchanges Affairs, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, P.R. China, September, 1996 - April, 1998

Chinese Intensive Reading (beginner, intermediate and advanced)
Chinese Newspapers and Periodical Reading (advanced)
Chinese Calligraphy (beginner)

Pre-major Advisor, Department of Foreign Languages, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, P.R. China, September, 1996 – July, 1999

Graduate Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, P.R. China, September, 1995 – April, 1998

American and British Culture (for English-major sophomore class)
Intensive English (ESL) Reading (for non English-major freshman and sophomore classes)
Listening Comprehension (ESL) (for non English-major freshman and sophomore classes

Private ESL Tutor, Xi'an, P.R. China (for children ranging from age 10 to 15), September, 1995 - July, 2000

service _________________________________________________________________

University, College, Department

Office of the Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts Academic Administrative Evaluation Committee, Penn State, 2007
English Department Fixed-Term Lecturer Review Committee, Penn State, 2008
English Department Composition Committee, Penn State, 2006-2009
English Department Awards Committee, Penn State, 2006-2007
East Asian Studies Committee, Penn State, 2007-2008

Professional

Manuscript Referee for TESOL Quarterly, 2008
Manuscript Referee for World Englishes, 2008
Manuscript Referee for the Journal of Language Learning and Technology, 2007
Manuscript Referee for the Journal of Second Language Writing, since 2005
Manuscript Referee for College Composition and Communication, 2005
Book Manuscript Referee for the University of South Carolina Press, 2008
Book Manuscript Referee for Parlor Press, 2006
Textbook Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2008
Textbook Reviewer, Bedford/St. Martins
Textbook Reviewer, Allyn & Bacon/Longman
Proposal Reviewer, Symposium on Second language writing, 2004; American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, 2006

Assistant to the President of International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) preparing the Annual Conference, West Lafayette, July 21- 23, 2005.

Associate Chair for the Fourth Symposium on Second Language Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, September 30-October 2, 2004.

Assistant to the President of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) preparing the Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 5-9, 2002.

Local representative for Symposium on Second Language Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October, 15-16, 2000; October 11-12, 2002.

Public

Guest speaker, discussing Chinese society and culture, Bellefonte High School, Bellefonte, PA, September 15, 2008

Guest speaker, discussing methods of English learning, Xinfeng High School, Jiangxi Province, China, February 21, 2008.

Guest speaker, introducing and demonstrating Chinese cooking, Harrison High School, West Lafayette, IN, November 24, 2003.

Reader in "Read Across America", Klondike Elementary School, West Lafayette, IN, March 1, 2002.

Guest speaker in "International Education Awareness Week", Harrison High School, West Lafayette, IN, November 12, 2001.

professional memberships _____________________________________________

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

International Association of World Englishes (IAWE)

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Last updated: 02/10/2009