Amy Wan

Amy Wan is a Professor and Special Assistant to the Provost for Writing in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY. Her research focuses on literacy’s role in citizen-making, institutional change, and policy around multilingualism and international students in higher education. She has authored influential works like *Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times* (2014) and co-leads a $1.7M U.S. Department of Education grant for the Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP). Her teaching spans first-year writing, pedagogy workshops, and antiracist linguistic justice practices.

Research interests include historical analyses of literacy’s ties to citizenship, labor policies, and contemporary global university dynamics. Her recent work addresses diversity rhetoric in U.S. higher education and the construction of the 'global university.' She co-edits collections on Asian American rhetoric and writing at CUNY.

Recipient of major awards including the 2023 Braddock and 2012 Ohmann Outstanding Article Awards, her scholarship bridges composition studies, citizenship theory, and institutional policy. She facilitates workshops on antiracist writing pedagogies and designs inclusive writing assignments for multilingual students.

As QCAP co-PI, her grant work supports Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) initiatives. She also contributes to initiatives like the First Year Writing Program and the MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College.