Welcome to my academic website!

I’m Andy Jiahao Liu, currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Language, Literacy, and Social Studies Education at the University of Iowa. Prior to that, I was an award-winning Global Professor of English at the University of Arizona. I am a teacher who does research, and a researcher who teaches. My research centers around second language writing, English for research publication purposes, and critical language testing and assessment. These fields of inquiry are intertwined with my identity as a multilingual writer, my role as an EAL navigator in the academic publication landscape, and my experience growing up in a test-oriented society.

My scholarly work has appeared in journals and edited collections such as Journal of Second Language Writing, Assessing Writing, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, and International Journal of Language Testing. I co-authored Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners of English (TESOL Press, 2026).

I am currently co-editor of the Journal of Second Language Writing 2025/26 Special Issue on Emotions in Teaching Second Language Writing and a contracted Multilingual Matters volume, Emotions in Teaching Writing in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts (forthcoming 2027). I also serve as the lead co-editor of Applied Linguistics Forum (2023–present) at TESOL International Association and of the Applied Linguistics Press book series, Graduate Studies and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics (2026–present).

I develop and maintain this website as a digital portfolio to showcase my teaching, research, and professional service; I update it annually, though. My current research projects focus on emotions in teaching writing in multilingual and multicultural contexts, the intersection of Global Englishes and writing pedagogy in higher education, and autoethnographic approaches to researching identity.

Contact: jliu289 (at) uiowa (dot) edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-IfSjzoAAAAJ&hl=en