LuMing Mao is Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies, which he also chaired (2018-2024), as well as Asian Center Faculty Affiliate, at the University of Utah. A scholar in comparative and global rhetoric, Asian/Asian American rhetoric, and Chinese rhetoric, LuMing served as Chair Professor of Shanghai University in 2006-2011. He was a 2015 Distinguished Scholar at Miami University; the 2016 Peter and Margaret D’Angelo Endowed Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University; and the 2017 Thomas R. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Louisville. He is the author of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (2006) with a Chinese edition including a new introduction published by Fudan University Press (2013). He edited Comparative Rhetoric: Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places, and Spaces (2018) and co-edited Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric (2008) as well as special issues/symposia in College Composition and Communication (2009), College English (2010), Contemporary Rhetoric (in Chinese, 2016, 2018, 2021), Rhetoric Review (2015), and Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2013). His forthcoming books include: the co-edited Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing and the co-edited Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Volume 5, Modern Rhetoric After 1900. His current research is centered on developing a framework for studying global rhetoric and on studying cartography as rhetoric in early modernity through the 1602 mappamondo by the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci.  

 

LuMing has been a guest speaker at many universities, including: Ball State University, Baruch College, Elon University, Florida State University, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Penn State University, St John’s University, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Louisville, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Texas-Austin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford University. He has also lectured and taught overseas, mostly at institutions in China, Indonesia, South Korea, and Taiwan.