Hui Wu

Hui Wu (pronounced as Whay Woo) holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in rhetoric/composition and comparative studies of rhetoric and communication. She is professor of English and chair of the Department of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas at Tyler. Before joining UT Tyler, he served as Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Director of the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Education Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and the Founding Executive Director of the UCA Confucius Institute for Arkansas at the University of Central Arkansas.

Dr. Wu’s publications encompass the history of rhetoric, comparative studies of rhetoric, global feminist rhetorics, and archival research in rhetoric and writing. Her writing appears in scholarly anthologies and journals, such as College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Her Chinese translation (Jiangxi Education Press, 2004) of C. Jan Swearingen’s Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies offers Chinese academics an alternative perspective of the history of Western rhetoric. Her otehr books include Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women (Lexington Books, 2010), Reading and Writing about the Disciplines (Fountainhead Press 2015), and Guiguzi, China's First Treatise on Rhetoric (Southern Illinois University Press), Global Rhetorical Traditions (with Tarez Graban, Parlor Press), and Reading and Writing about Disciplines, 2nd Ed (Top Hap 2023).

Currently, she continues to publish articles on transnational feminist rhetoircs and on Chinese rhetoric, as well as writing non-fiction about her life in China and in the U.S.