Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of English at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC where she teaches first year writing and professional and technical communication courses. She researches about citizen technical communication practices in disaster and crisis contexts and Chinese feminist rhetorics. Her work has appeared in journals Technical Communication; WPA: Writing Program Administration, and in edited collections such as Big Data and Composition, and Platforms, Protests, and the Challenges of Networked Democracy, etc.