Min zhan lu biography of christopher columbus

Min-Zhan Lu is a composition professor and scholar. She serves as professor emerita of English at the University of Louisville. She is the 2005 recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Richard M.

Braddock Award and the 2012 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.

Early life and education

Lu grew up in China at the turn of the Communist Revolution in the mid to late 1940s. She grew up speaking Shanghai dialect, Standard Chinese, and English at a young age.

She learned Standard Chinese while attending a private school after the Communist Revolution in 1949.^[1]

Lu was awarded her MA and PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 and 1989 respectively, where she studied in the Cultural and Critical Studies Program.^[1][2] During her PhD program, she served as an Andrew W.

Mellon Predoctoral Fellow (1987–1988).^[2]

Career and research

As a non-native English speaker, Lu did not intend on becoming a