Genggeng Zhang

Genggeng Zhang is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Penn State University. Her teaching focuses on Writing 2 and 109ST courses, emphasizing academic writing instruction. Her research interests span discipline-specific and multilingual writing, academic literacy development, and computer-assisted pedagogy, with a particular focus on the intersection of language use in technical and academic contexts.

Her work appears in journals such as the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, and Journal of Second Language Studies. Her research explores citational practices in engineering and social science disciplines, syntactic complexity in academic discourse, and aviation communication. She has conducted corpus-based analyses of technical and professional language, including studies targeting aviation maintenance students and emerging scholars.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned. She advises no listed students at this time. Her office is located in Girvetz Hall 1318 on the UCSB campus.