Xiao Tan

Biography

Xiao Tan is an Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University. She received her Ph.D. in Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies from Arizona State University. Her research focuses on multimodal writing, second language/multilingual writing, digital writing, and writing with Artificial Intelligence. As a writing teacher, she has been exploring innovative ways of teaching writing that prepares students for critical reading and writing in digital environments. She has shared her creative teaching practices with fellow writing scholars and educators on TextGenEd: Teaching with text generation technologies, Dynamic activities for first-year composition, Digital literacies for human connection, and Multimodal composition and writing transfer pedagogy. She has served as the chair of the Second Language Writing Standing Group at CCCC. She is also an editorial board member of Computers and Composition, and her research is published in Computers and Composition, Journal of Second Language Writing, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.