An English professor and director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at Miami University will discuss comparative rhetoric at this year鈥檚 Holder Lecture.
LuMing Mao鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淏eyond Bias, Binary and Border: Enacting a Discursive Third in Comparative Rhetoric,鈥 will be held Thursday, April 26 at 3:30 p.m. in Callen Conference Center.
Mao鈥檚 teaching and research centers on Asian/Asian American rhetoric, comparative rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and writing and discourse analysis in translingual contexts.
He is the author of, 鈥淩eading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric,鈥 and co-edited 鈥淩epresentations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric,鈥 which received honorable mention for the 2009 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association of America. His essay, 鈥淪tudying the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presenting the Native鈥檚 Point of View鈥 won the 2007 Richard Ohmann Outstanding Essay Award.
He is currently working on a book project, titled 鈥淪earching for a Tertium Quid: Studying Chinese Rhetoric in the Present.鈥
His lecture is free and open to the public.
The Kenneth R. Holder Lecture was established by members of the Department of English in memory of Dr. Kenneth R. Holder, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English. The lecture features a scholar in the field of language, English education or composition theory.