Wei Xu

Assistant Professor
Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Office: RH 232
Email: weixu@niu.edu

Xu, W. (In press). Students need to be taught ethical issues in video remixing. In Digital literacies for human connection. Coad, D., Buck, A., Gupta, A., Shivener, R. (Eds.). National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Xu, W. and Tan, X. (2025). Blessing or cursing: Second language writing teachers' perspectives of using ChatGPT in classrooms. In Words and machines: Rethinking writing education in the age of generative AI. Wang, C. and Tian, Z. (Eds.). Taylor & Francis.
Xu, W. and Jia, H. (2025). Scientific knowledge dissemination in the multilingual and digital era: A multimodality-enhanced genre analysis of Chinese epidemiologists' COVID-19 posts on Sina Weibo. Ibérica: Journal of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, 49, 133–156.
Xu, W., Tan, X., Wang, C., Fu, D. (2025). Does digital multimodal composing help improve EFL students' metacognitive knowledge? Language Learning & Technology.
Xu, W. and Tan, X. (2024). Beyond words: L2 writing teachers' visual conceptualizations of Chat GPT in teaching and learning. Journal of Second Language Writing, 64, 101110.
Xu, W. (2025). Discover Your Own Voice and Centralize Inclusion with AI. In TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments. Schnitzler, C., Vee, A. and Laquintano, T. (Eds.). WAC Clearinghouse.
Tan, X., Xu, W., Wang, C. (2024). Purposeful remixing with generative AI: Constructing designer voice in multimodal composing. Computers & Composition, 75, 102893.

Asia-Pacific Language for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Association (LSPPC) Christopher N. Candlin Award for the Best Paper by Early Career Scholars, 2025
Andrew C. Comrie GIDP (Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs) Doctoral Fellowship, University of Arizona, $30,000, 2024
Difference and Inequality Teaching Award, Writing Program, University of Arizona, 2024
Ruth Gardner Teaching Award, Writing Program, University of Arizona, 2022