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Weiming Gorman

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Affiliated Faculty with Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

Areas of Interest

  • Global Women's Discourse
  • Feminist Rhetorical Teaching Praxis
  • Cross Cultural Communication

 

Courses Taught

  • Global and US Women's Rhetoric
  • Interpersonal Communication for the Diverse Workplace
  • Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Public Speaking

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Guest Editor

  • China Media Research (Special Issue), “Confucius Institute: How China Exerts Its Influence through Language Instruction.” Volume 10, Number 1, 2014

Journal Article

  • Weiming Yao, “The New Middle Kingdom: the Symbolic Power of the Confucius Institute’s Pedagogical Approach.” China Media Research, Volume 10, Number 1, 2014.

Monograph

  • The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China: A Rhetorical Perspective. Columbia: South Carolina University Press, 2012.

Selective Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations

Presenter

  • Poster Presentation: "We hold up half the story: global and US women's rhetoric". Pennsylvania Communication Association 80th Annual Convention, Reading Pennsylvania.
  • “Wen Jiaobao’s Web Chat with Chinese Netizens: Creating an ‘Imaged Community’ in the Digital Age.” 44th Mid-Atlantic Region of Association for Asian Studies (AAS), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
  • “Confucius Comes to the US: A Case Study of How Confucius Institute Employs Language Instruction as Symbolic Power.” International and Intercultural Communication Division, Annual Conference of National Communication Association, Washington DC
  • “Are We Americans: The Politics of Assimilation for Asian Americans.” Association for Chinese Communication Studies Division, Annual Conference of National Communication Association, Chicago
  • “Falun Gong: Chinese Notion of Healing in Comparison to Western Biomedical Approach.” Health Communication Division, Annual Conference of National Communication Association, Chicago
  • “Forging New Tools: Adapting Western Scholarship to Non-Western Communicative Context.” Association for Chinese Communication Studies Division, Annual Conference of National Communication Association, Seattle