Donghong Liu is a full professor in Southeast University in Nanjing, China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Fudan University in China, and worked in Central China Normal University before 2022. Professor Liu pursued her research in Purdue University as a Fulbright research scholar, in the University of Utah and Penn State University as a visiting scholar. Her research interests include rhetoric and composition, pragmatics, intercultural writing, and second language acquisition. She is the author of 5 monographs and has published over 60 articles in domestic and international journals. She serves as a major council member of Teaching and Researching L2 Writing of China Association and the Society of Global Rhetoric.