2 Pitt English faculty won a Spencer Foundation grant

Two faculty members in Pitt’s Department of English, Jialei Jiang and Xiqiao Wang, have earned a $60,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation.

Jiang, a teaching assistant professor, and Wang, an assistant professor, will study new approaches to translingual research by way of Asian international students’ digital counter-storytelling practices.

Both faculty members teach writing and composition courses in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Jiang’s research interests include digital writing, multimodal composition and affect studies. Wang’s research examines, in part, multilingual and multimodal writing processes across formal, informal and digital contexts.