Research Description
Transnational Literacy/ Language Ideology/ Prescriptive and descriptive Grammar /Critical Pedagogy/Discourse Analysis /Identity and Intersectionality /Writing Conference /Dialogic Semiotics
Education
B.A. in English (specialization in Linguistics and TEFL), National Taiwan Normal University
M.A. in English (specialization in Applied English Linguistics), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Grants
Scholarship Program for College Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences to Study Abroad-Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Awards and Honors
Rhetoric Program Award for Excellence in Writing Instruction (Graduate Student category) (2021-2022)-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Graduate Academic Achievement (2017)-University of Wisconsin-Madison
Academic Excellence Award (Dean's List ) (2011) & (2013)-National Taiwan Normal University
Outstanding Student Award (2011) & (2012)-National Taiwan Normal University
Courses Taught
RHET 105: Writing and Research (Instructor)
RHET 233: Advanced Composition (Instructor)
Highlighted Publications
Liu, M. H. N. (2022). “Object Ethnography for the Real-World: Using Objects and Documents for Disciplinary Development” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. [Editorial Review]
Liu, M. H. N. (2022). “Mobility Work in Composition” [Review of the book Mobility Work in Composition], by B. Horner, M. F., Hartline, A. Kumari & L.S., Matravers. Community Literacy Journal, 16(2), 158-162. [Editorial Review]
Liu, M. H. N. (2022). First-Year-Composition Writing Conferences as a Pathway for Becoming Graduate Teaching Assistants. Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, 11(1), 6. [Peer Review]
Liu, M. H. N. (2021). A Case study of using we for speaker affiliation in a first-year-composition writing conference talk. Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle, 31(1), 58-77. [Peer Review]
MLA Grads Blog. GRADUATE STUDENTS PREPARING FOR THE FALL. August, 2020. Retrieved from https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/2020/08/