Jialei Jiang

Jialei Jiang is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, affiliated with the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences. Her teaching focuses on digital media, technical writing, and second language writing, emphasizing critical media literacy, cultural diversity, and public rhetorical knowledge. She designs course projects that bridge theoretical concepts with real-world applications for students' future careers.

Her research explores digital writing, multimodal composition, and affect studies, particularly addressing intersections of race and affect in pedagogy. Recent work includes antiracist pedagogical frameworks, AI integration in education, and community-engaged projects. She actively publishes in journals like College Composition and Communication and Computers and Composition.

Jiang’s scholarship critiques digital platforms’ ethical challenges (e.g., Wikipedia sustainability, LLM impacts) and advocates for translingual and posthumanist approaches in rhetoric. She co-leads initiatives promoting multimodal advocacy and anti-racist practices in technical communication.