SLAT PhD Candidate awarded the Comrie Interdisciplinary Fellowship

Please join SLAT in congratulating SLAT Ph.D. Candidate Wei Xu, who has received the Andrew C. Comrie Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Doctoral Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year! This fellowship is awarded to one outstanding GIDP doctoral student who is performing cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. Wei's research focuses on rhetorical practices of student writers' from diverse ethnic, sociocultural, and multiple native language backgrounds. Using a series of innovative technologies, she has captured data on how the students, in real time, tap into their first languages in the composing process.