Qianqian Zhang-Wu, assistant professor of english and director of multilingual writing, with Cherice Jones, PhD. student in the department of english, “quantify, contextualize and investigate race in translingual scholarship.” Using data analysis methods like—n-grams, collocation and concordance—on “five of the high-impact journals in the field,” they track the frequency of discussions of race and its proximity to additional topics like intersectionality and power relations.

Read their article, “Anti-racist translingualism: investigating race in translingual scholarship in US Writing and rhetoric studies over the past decade,” in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.