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Haivan Hoang's keynote lecture "Why Race Matters when Writing in the Disciplines" recently kicked off the University of Connecticut Writing Center's conference on Racism in the Margins. She shared insights from her in-progress interview-based study on how race becomes salient for teachers and students in discipline-specific writing courses at UMass Amherst.

Hoang is an associate professor of English and an Associate Director for the Junior Year Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching interests center on literacy studies, critical race theory, Asian American rhetorics, qualitative research methodologies in writing studies, and postsecondary teaching of writing. Professor Hoang is the author of Writing against Racial Injury: The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), which broadly examines the impact of U.S. racial legacies on who gets to be a writer and, more specifically, presents an archive-based and an ethnographic case study of Asian American activism for language and literacy in post-1960s California. She is currently conducting a qualitative study on the ways in which race becomes salient for students and instructors in discipline-specific writing courses. She has been recognized by her university’s College of Humanities & Fine Arts Outstanding Teaching Award (2010) as well as the University of Massachusetts Amherst Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2017).