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]
Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. "Introduction: Translingual Work." College English, vol. 78, no. 3, 2016, pp. 207–218.
Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. "Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, and Matters of Agency." College English, vol. 75, no. 6, 2013, pp. 582–607.
Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. "Composing in a Global-Local Context: Careers, Mobility, Skills." College English, vol. 72, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113–133.
Lu, Min-Zhan. "Living-English Work." College English, vol. 68, no. 6, 2006, pp. 605–618.
Lu, Min-Zhan. "An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism." College Composition and Communication, vol. 56, no. 1, 2004, pp. 16–50.
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.
Notable awards
2012 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Cross-Language Communications in Composition)[6]
2005 CCCC Richard Braddock Award ("An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism")[7]
1992 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Best Article Published in the Journal of Basic Writing[2][8]
^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.
^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.
^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.
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