Associate Professor Tingjia Wang’s latest edited book – Impact of Emergent Technologies on Writing Centers and Pedagogy – has been released in May 2025 with the New York-based academic publisher IGI Global.

The book includes 12 chapters from 16 university-or-college-based writing centers in U.S., Mexico, Japan and Syria. Chapter contributors vary from writing center directors, technology ethicist, faculties, professionals to student tutors. The book has invited two guest contributors respectively from Australian and Japanese higher education to contribute two Forewords and one guest contributor from American higher education to contribute a Conclusion.

Impact of Emergent Technologies on Writing Centers and Pedagogy explores the impact of emergent technologies such as AI, AR, VR on writing centers and writing pedagogy in higher education worldwide. It examines the themes, concerns, and challenges emerging from different writing centers and their culturally and linguistically diverse responses towards the latest transformations in writing pedagogy. This book maps out key themes in the broader field of technology-enhanced research writing such as digital literacy, policymaking, teaching initiatives, tutor training, faculty training, AI ethics, Large Language Models, writing programs, writing center planning and more. The overarching theme of the book emerging from 12 chapters is to envision a promising future of AI resilience in technology-enhanced writing centers and writing programs in higher education worldwide. This book is a useful resource for educators, computer engineers, academicians, researchers, scientists, practitioners, administrators and students.

Indexed universities and colleges in this book include:

　　Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
　　Benedictine College, USA
　　University of Mary Washington, USA
　　Wagner College, USA
　　Cornell University, USA
　　Maaref University of Applied Sciences, Syria
　　University of Guanajuato, Mexico
　　University of Texas at Arlington, USA
　　University of Texas Permian Basin, USA
　　California State University, Stanislaus, USA
　　University of Nevada Reno, USA
　　Chapman University, USA
　　University of Southern Maine, USA
　　Tulane University, USA
　　Hiroshima University, Japan
　　Laredo College, USA

Details of Impact of Emergent Technologies on Writing Centers and Pedagogy can be found at: https://www.igi-global.com/book/impact-emergent-technologies-writing-centers/349909#table-of-contents

For inquiries about the book, please contact the editor Associate Professor Tingjia Wang at twang@hiroshima-u.ac.jp