Brief Biography
Peiwen Wang is a doctoral student in the Department of Teaching, Learning,
and Teacher Education. She works as a graduate research assistant alongside
Dr. Kara Viesca on ICMEE (International Consortium for Multilingual
Excellence in Education), Dr. Catalano and other professors in TLTE. She also
works as a teaching assistant for TLTE. She has taught TEAC 330 Multicultural
Education and TEAC 413M Teaching Multilingual Learners in Content Area
Classrooms.
Peiwen earned her M.A. in TESL from St. Cloud State University in 2014. She
worked as an IELTS teacher in Global Education (Shanghai) for more than one
year and a college instructor for Business English for three years in
Shangrao Normal University.
Research Interests
Issues related to inequity and racism that international students are facing;
teacher education that advances equity; critical discourse studies
(If you would like to collaborate, please feel free to email me at
pwang24@huskers.unl.edu)
Publications & Conference Presentations
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
Wang, P., & Catalano, T. (2023). ‘Chinese virus’: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Asian racist discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Language and Discrimination. 7(1), 25-51. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1558/jld.23484__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!HEC8rIRHdAAivwlvI076uFT0DIyhBWaELln2rrnvvHSIB-j_kESosLfFkeYa2z14okON1nhr2LV2FRaBiD6zPUqjjpszXg$
Wang, P., Gu, X., & Morales, A. (2022). “It was just my name!”: A CRT/CRF Analysis of International Female Graduate Students’ Perception and Experiences Regarding Their Ethnic Name. Journal of International Students. 13(2), 172-188. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v13i2.4716__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!HEC8rIRHdAAivwlvI076uFT0DIyhBWaELln2rrnvvHSIB-j_kESosLfFkeYa2z14okON1nhr2LV2FRaBiD6zPUrCxyAJvQ$
Catalano, T. & Wang, P. (2021). Social Media, populism, and COVID-19: Weibo Users’ Reaction to Anti-Chinese Discourse. Studies in Media and Communication. 9 (2), 58-70. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.11114/smc.v9i2.5388__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!HEC8rIRHdAAivwlvI076uFT0DIyhBWaELln2rrnvvHSIB-j_kESosLfFkeYa2z14okON1nhr2LV2FRaBiD6zPUrGXsvNGw$
Book Chapters:
Viesca, K. M., Linzell, C. H., Wang, P., Heeren, M., Mitchell-McCollough, J., & Yunes-Koch, A. (2023). Scaffolding Learning for Teachers of Multilingual Learners through Agency, Leadership, and Collaboration. In de Oliveira, L. C., & Westerlund, R. (Eds.) Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners in Elementary and Secondary Schools (pp. 167-180). New York & London: Routledge.
Wang, P. & Catalano, T. (2022). Social media, right-wing populism and Covid-19: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of reactions to the ‘Chinese virus’ discourse. In Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (Eds), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (pp.323-338), London: Bloomsbury Linguistics.
Viesca, K., Wang, P., Heinz, B., & Yunes-Koch, A. (2022). (Re) Turning To Freirean Philosophy in Preparing Content Teachers to Work with Multilingual Students. In Barros S. R., & de Oliveira, L. C. (Eds), Paulo Freire and Multilingual Education: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Empirical Analyses in Language and Literacy (pp.158-175), New York & London: Routledge.
National Conference Presentations:
Interrogating Academic Bullying in Higher Education: The Perspectives and Experiences of Asian Graduate Students (individual paper Session), 2023 AERA Annual Meeting
Interrogating Educator White Complicity: Notions of Racism, Racial Justice, Responsibility and Accountability (round table Session), 2023 AERA Annual Meeting
Interrogating Racialized Academic Bullying in Higher Education: The Perspectives and Experiences of Asian International Graduate Students (individual paper presentation) American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2023 Annual Conference
A CRF Analysis of International Female Graduate Students’ Experiences Regarding Their Ethnic Name (round table Session), 2022 AERA Virtual Annual Meeting
Disrupting Evasion Pedagogies Through an Anti-evasive/oppressive Course for Pre-service Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners (individual paper presentation) American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2022 Virtual Conference
Trump’s ‘Chinese Virus’ Rhetoric and Weibo Users’ Resistance: What This Means for Anti-racist Curriculum (round table Session), 2021 AERA Virtual Annual Meeting
“Trump Virus”: A Counter-Discourse Analysis of Weibo User’s Reactions to US Government Communication about COVID-19 (individual paper presentation) American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2021 Virtual Conference