James Schnell Author & Editor

Weixiao Wei has been working with Taiyuan University of Technology as a lecturer at the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures for twelve years since she obtained her MA degree in 2010. In July 2017, she received a visiting scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) to undertake research projects at Swansea University, UK for a year. Since then, she has published two monographs and six book chapters with Routledge. She is currently the chief editor of The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and is planning another handbook of language learning in global context. She is also the editor of the Chinese language studies section in the upcoming Routledge Research Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies. In addition to preparing research papers, monograph and edited volume for further publication, she has been pursuing her PhD study in rhetoric and composition at University of Houston.

James Schnell, Ph.D. (Ohio University) is an Assistant Professor in the Defense Critical Languages & Culture Program at the University Montana. He is a three time Fulbright Scholar (Cambodia, Myanmar and Kosovo) and has published widely on matters having to do with cross-cultural communication, most specifically focusing on China. Schnell has taught at Cleveland State University, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, Miami University and Beijing Jiaotong University. He was a visiting scholar at Fudan University in fall, 2017.