Dr. Bo Wang is Professor of English and Codirector of the First-Year Writing Program
at California State University, Fresno.
A historian, she works in the intersections of comparative/cultural rhetorics, feminist/gender
studies, postcolonial studies, and transnationalism. Her writing has appeared in such
journals as Advances in the History of Rhetoric, College Composition and Communication, College English, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and in the books including Comparative Rhetoric: The Art of Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places and Spaces and Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric—the latter received the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize in 2009 from the Modern Language
Association of America for distinguished research in language and culture. Her 2013
RSQ essay “Comparative Rhetoric, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms:
A Geopolitical Approach” was nominated for the Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article
Award, and her 2015 co-edited A Symposium on Comparative Rhetoric received the Theresa J. Enos Anniversary Award for distinguished scholarship in rhetorical
studies. Her most recent publications include “Ren, Reciprocity, and the Art of Communication:
Conversing with Confucius in the Present” in the multiauthor volume After Plato: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing (2020) and an essay in Rhetoric Review (2021).
Dr. Wang has held two national disciplinary leadership positions, Executive Committee
Member for the Conference on College Composition and Communication and Advisory Board Member for the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. She has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric
Series and on the Editorial Board of Peitho. She also serves as a manuscript reviewer for the top-tier journals in her discipline
including College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and for Routledge and several other academic publishers.
Rhetorical Theory
Comparative Rhetoric
Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography
Postcolonial Studies and Transnationalism
Rhetoric and Ethics
Archival Research
Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Chinese Feminist Thought
Asian American Rhetoric
Writing Theory and Pedagogy
Teacher Development
