MU Congjun

MU Congjun

Job title:Professor
Field of study:Second language writing; applied linguistics, and second language acquisition

Posts Held:

Professor of English and Supervisor for MA students at SMU; former Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Director of the International Office and Deputy Director of the President’s Office of Shanghai Institute of Technology.

Education:

Visiting Scholar at Birmingham University in United Kingdom from 2018 to 2019

Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University in United States from 2012 to 2013

PhD of Queensland University of Technology in Australia in 2007

MA of Fudan University in 2003

BA of Shaanxi Normal University in 1990.

Research Interests: 

Second language writing; applied linguistics, and second language acquisition

Publications:

Nearly 50 papers published in many domestic and international refereed journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of Second Language Writing, English for Specific PurposesLanguage AwarenessTESL-EJThe Journal of Asia TEFLStudies in Higher EducationModern Foreign Languages, Journal of Foreign LanguagesRhetoric Studies and Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice.

A monograph based on his doctoral thesis published in Australia in 2007.

Research Projects:

An intercultural rhetoric perspective into Chinese scholars’ experience in international publishing granted by National Social Science Fund of China (Grant No.: 14BYY151).

Academic Activities: 

Senior visiting scholar, in collaboration with Professor Paul Kei Matsuda at Arizona State University from May 2012 to May 2013.

Senior visiting scholar, in collaboration with Dr. Nickolas Groom at Arizona State University from May 2012 to May 2013.