Wenqi Cui

Wenqi Cui (she/her/hers)

Senior Lecturer + Associate Director (Writing Center)

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Wenqi Cui is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director for Graduate Student Support in the University Writing Program. Her teaching and scholarship revolve around the intersection of writing transfer, multiliteracies, writing center studies, and multilingual learners. Her composition courses cultivate metacognitive thinking and encourage a transfer mindset, equipping students with the ability to critically analyze and respond to rhetorical situations beyond their immediate academic setting, extending into various disciplines and professional domains. Her support for graduate students includes providing personalized writing assistance, leading workshops on advanced writing strategies, facilitating writing groups, and offering mentorship to help students navigate the complexities of academic and professional writing. She also develops resources and programs that address the unique challenges faced by graduate students, enhancing their writing and communication across diverse contexts. 

Wenqi’s scholarly work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, The Writing Center Journal, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and The Journal of English as an International Language, among others. She was also awarded the CCCC 2020 Dream Scholar Travel Award for one of her research contributions. Her dissertation at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) centered on transfer across media, investigating how first-year students transfer their writing knowledge between different modalities of composition. 

Apart from her scholarly pursuits, Wenqi has actively contributed to the field through various endeavors. She currently serves as the Book Review Editor for Composition Studies. In addition, she is the Graduate Editor of Featured Issues at The Peer Review journal, working with the editorial team to engage scholars and practitioners in exploring cutting-edge topics while supporting underrepresented groups in the discipline. She co-edited the 2023 Special Issue (Re)Investigating Writing Center Commonplaces. She has also served a two-year term as a digital fellow of Computers and Composition Digital Press. In addition, Wenqi served as an article reviewer for the Journal of Academic Writing, Rhetoric Society of Quarterly, and Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education 

Wenqi’s scholarship and interactions with diverse students and scholars have profoundly shaped her teaching and mentorship approaches, fostering inclusivity and valuing individuals’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds, diverse perspectives, and identities.