Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Assistant Professor of English
Liping Yang is an Assistant Professor of English within the Department of English at Kennesaw State University.
Dr. Yang’s research focuses on AI in writing and rhetoric, computational rhetorics, writing technologies, digital humanities, interactive media, and digital writing and social media. Her recent publications focus on AI and metacognition, rhetorical theory in AI-mediated writing contexts, human–machine collaboration, and prompt engineering. She teaches business writing, technical writing, digital writing, and first-year composition. She has published widely in disciplinary conferences and journals, with her work appearing in publications by Peter Lang, Taylor & Francis, and the WAC Clearinghouse.
Before joining KSU, she taught and worked at Georgia State University as an Assistant Director and AI Pedagogy Specialist with the First-Year Writing Program, as well as a Graduate Associate with the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. Nationally, she has also served as Chair of the WAC-GO Committee, Vice President of the NeMLA Graduate Student Caucus, and in a leadership role with the CCCC Asian/Asian American Caucus.
Office: EB 065
Email
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Research/Area(s) of Specialty
- Digital Humanities
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MAPW Concentration Area(s)
- Applied Writing
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Creative Writing
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MAPW Courses Taught
- PRWR 6440 Professional and Academic Editing
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Select Publications
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Yang, Liping, and Harker, Michael. (2026) "Toward a Dialectical Writing Process Through AI Prompting: Negotiating the Rhetorical Stakes of Business Proposal Writing with Co-Invention and Genre Awareness." Writing Studies Prompt Library. WAC Clearinghouse.
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Yang, Liping, and Harker, Michael. (2025). "Three-Stage Metacognitive Reflection Framework for AI Engagement." TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments in Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, edited by Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano, The WAC Clearinghouse. https://doi.org/10.37514/TWR-J.2024.2.1.01.
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Yang, Liping, Tiffany Gray, and Megan Hall. (2025). “Artificial Intelligence and Writing.” Guide to First-Year Writing, Top Hat.
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Yang, Liping. (2026, June 2). Liminality-in-the-loop writing: Relational meaning-making in human–machine composing. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2026/06/02/liminality-in-the-loop-writing-relational-meaning-making-in-human-machine-composing/
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Yang, Liping. (2026) “Writing Studies in the Age of Generative AI: Directions, Debates, and Pedagogical Futures”. Norton Learning Blog.
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Yang, Liping. (2025). "AI in the Loop: Rethinking Agency in Human–Machine Collaboration and Its Pedagogical Implications." Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Conference, WAC Clearinghouse.
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Yang, Liping. (2025). "From ‘Kung Flu’ to #StopAAPIHate: Confronting Toxic Anti-AAPI Rhetoric through Contemporary Activism and Digital Literacy." Confronting Toxic Rhetoric: Writing Teachers’ Experiences of Rupture, Resistance, and Resilience, edited by Jamie White-Farnham, Cathryn Molloy, and Bryna Siegel Finer, Peter Lang.
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Yang, Liping and Wang, Xiaobo. (2025). "‘Chained Woman’ and Social Justice Narrative in the Digital Era: The Role of Social Media in Contemporary Chinese Grassroots Social Campaign." Designing for Social Justice: Community-Engaged Approaches in Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Jialei Jiang and Jason C. K. Tham, Taylor & Francis.
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Yang, Liping. (2024). "Research Writing (with AI-focused topics and examples)."Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
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